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C. Michael Bailey's Best Recordings of 2014
by C. Michael Bailey
This year turned out to be a watershed of jazz and beyond vocals, instrumental jazz and important reissues. It was a year of music that further opened my eyes and ears to music I had not previously valued or considered. How short-sighted of me. Beat Kaestli Collage (B&B Productions)
Dave's Eight Track Mind
by John Ephland
Dave Stryker Crystal Run and Luna Stage Middletown, NY and West Orange, NJ November 2, 2014 It was a tale of two cities. Or two bands, to be more specific. Or two variations on a theme, to come that much closer to describing what went down on this first Sunday in ...
The Dave Stryker Trio Swings A Log Church
by Gloria Krolak
Once through pastoral Medford Village in Burlington County, NJ, you arrive at Medford Lakes, a community of period log cabins under towering pine trees just off Stokes, the main road. In this onetime lakeside resort, hand-hewn from local wood, beckons a big cabin called Cathedral of the Woods. Russell Quigliata, who managed Cecil Payne until the ...
Enrico Granafei: Alone (and) Together
by Angelo Leonardi
Enrico Granafei è un chitarrista e armonicista cosentino residente da anni negli Stati Uniti, precisamente a Montclair (New Jersey), dove possiede un ristorante e jazz club, Trumpets. La sua storia musicale inizia dopo un diploma di chitarra nel 1976 al conservatorio dell'Aquila e con l'attività di armonicista a Roma, iniziata alla fine di quel decennio dopo ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Stryker
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Stryker's birthday today! Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 20 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive ...
Aquarius
Album: 8 Track
By Dave Stryker
Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 0
Duration: 7:17
Joshua Shneider: Love Speaks Orchestra
by Angelo Leonardi
Il debutto discografico della Love Speaks Orchestra di Joshua Shneider colpisce nel segno. Sassofonista di lunga esperienza, Shneider viene da Boston ma vive a New York dalla metà degli anni settanta e ha collaborato in veste di compositore/arrangiatore per piccole e grandi formazioni: da quelle di Donald Brown, John Abercrombie e James Williams alla ...
Four From The Posi-Tone Pile
by Dan Bilawsky
Some labels release a few records a year; some put out a record every month or two; and then there are those, like the Los Angeles-based Posi-Tone Records, that prefer to push even more music through the pipeline. As 2014 came into being, Posi-Tone began an ambitious release schedule, putting out a new ...
Dave Stryker: Eight Track
by Jack Bowers
On Eight Track, New York-based guitarist Dave Stryker's quartet takes the listener back some forty years or so to a time when there actually were eight-track tape players, relics on which Stryker listened to jazz and popular tunes of the day, several of which are reanimated on this tasteful and smoothly swinging album. Some of these ...
Dave Stryker: Eight Track
by C. Michael Bailey
A thoughtfully developed theme or concept for a recording is an underutilized dimension that can add creative depth to a project. Guitarist Dave Stryker nests several themes into Eight Track, his follow-up to his well-received Blue to the Bone IV (Steeplechase, 2012). Eight Track is the guitarist's tip-of- his-hat to the classic AM pop tunes of ...
