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Drew Gress: The Irrational Numbers & Real and Imagines
by Donald Elfman
Drew Gress The Irrational Numbers Premonition 2008 Dave Allen Real and Imagined Fresh Sound-New Talent 2008 The third one's a true charm as bassist Drew Gress and ...
Cellos: Erik Friedlander & Rufus Cappadocia
by Donald Elfman
Erik Friedlander Volac Tzadik 2008 Rufus Cappadocia Songs for Cello Velour 2008 “The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice." --Zuill Bailey
Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra: Invitation
by Donald Elfman
Saxophonist/composer Bruce Eskovitz makes music that is playful and appealing yet challenging and thoughtful at the same time. On an earlier recording, he paid tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins in a quartet setting, but here he displays his impressive composing and arranging chops in a big band setting. Eskovitz knows about intimacy and so the charts ...
Dena DeRose: Live at The Jazz Standard, Volume One
by Donald Elfman
Dena DeRose continues to dazzle in the simplest ways--she's a gifted and accomplished pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger but there's not a speck of self-importance or pretension as she joyously makes her way through new and old tunes. Her voice has the timbre and range of an Anita O'Day but there's a fresh, clear-headed quality here ...
Tim Armacost: Rhythm and Transformation
by Donald Elfman
Saxophonist/composer Tim Armacost spent a year in Delhi starting in 1993 studying Hindustani rhythms. In 2002, he received a grant from Chamber Music America to write a suite that places these rhythms in a jazz context. The result is the title suite of this remarkable album. Two of the players on the disc--pianist Bruce Barth and ...
Slow Poke: At Home
by Donald Elfman
Formed at the home of bassist Tony Scherr, Slow Poke--David Tronzo, Michael Blake, Scherr and Kenny Wollesen--play everything slower and funkier. It's an extraordinary idea for a jam band--bring the groove way down and somehow the vibe and energy go way up thanks to the new focus. It certainly helps that all of these guys are ...
Sathima Bea Benjamin: A Morning in Paris
by Donald Elfman
This recording belongs alongside the famous Reprise recording of Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio (Warner Bros., 1963)--now Abdullah Ibrahim. It comes from the same period and introduced the world to Ibrahim's then girlfriend, Beattie Benjamin (now Sathima Bea Benjamin). Actually, Benjamin heard Ellington in Zurich and convinced him to come hear Brand perform. Ellington ...
Carl Allen / Rodney Whitaker: Get Ready
by Donald Elfman
What cool yet sassy straight-ahead jazz--and it offers music by Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, not to mention well thought-out originals by the leaders. Drummer Carl Allen and bassist Rodney Whitaker are an in-sync pair, making composed yet newly emergent sounds. Let's start at the very beginning: it's Allen's original “La Shea's Walk, ...
Manhattan New Music Project: Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)
by Donald Elfman
Paul Nash--composer, teacher, and guitarist--learned in 2003 that he had a fatal brain tumor. He decided to leave a final legacy in a project that would remaster and reissue his earlier Paul Nash Ensemble recordings. This is the first of two discs--the proceeds of which will go to a fund to continue the promotion of further ...
Bennie Wallace: Disorder at the Border
by Donald Elfman
Saxophonist Bennie Wallace, also known for his clarinet work, moved to New York in 1971 after graduating from the University of Tennessee, playing with Monty Alexander, Sheila Jordan and others before debuting as a leader in 1978. He has released numerous records for Enja and also had a pair of highly-regarded discs for Blue Note in ...
