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Solo Piano: Andy Laverne, Peter Zak, Michel Petrucciani, Joe Albany
by Donald Elfman
Andy Laverne Time to Dream Steeplechase 2007 Peter Zak My Conception Steeplechase 2007 Michel Petrucciani Oracle's Destiny Owl-Sunnyside 2007 Joe Albany Epiphany ...
Joel Newton Situation: Crying and Laughing
by Donald Elfman
How about this--a band that works together regularly, playing music that is an astounding mix of free and composed with dashes of dance, minimalism and group improvisation? Guitarist Joel Newton is the composer here, and he has done up half-a-dozen ways for his band members to show off their best stuff as well as to give ...
Rebecca Parris: You Don't Know Me
by Donald Elfman
It's about time somebody said it--Rebecca Parris is the real thing. Her voice speaks of years of experience but her melodic and harmonic inventiveness, rhythmic playfulness and different way with a lyric are all eternally young and new. You Don't Know Me, on a new label, is a rich and full program of ...
Rob Reddy's Small Town: The Book of the Storm
by Donald Elfman
This “Small Town --Reddy's large ensemble--has created a massive statement that shows just where jazz composition, new music, collective improvisation and individual expression meet. The leader, though a vital and engaging instrumentalist, envisioned this four-part suite as a situation where he would not play his saxophones. What took shape, instead, was a huge structure that revolved ...
Gustavo Aguilar: unsettled on an old sense of place
by Donald Elfman
The title is nearly perfect; this music is truly unsettled on--really--any place or sense of it. You can't nail it down other than as a series of sound portraits about the relationship between composer and listener. It does invoke a sense of somewhere that feels familiar and very new at the same time. Aguilar ...
Larry Willis: Blue Fable and Alter Ego
by Donald Elfman
Larry Willis Blue Fable High Note 2007 Tony Pancella Alter Ego Mapleshade 2007 Larry Willis is one of those musicians whose name should always be remembered when ...
Monk Moods: Monk Abstractions, Plays Monk, Play Monk & Live 2007
by Donald Elfman
Sam Newsome Monk Abstractions self-published 2007 Amendola/Goldberg/Hoff Plays Monk Long Song 2007 Stan Tracey/Bobby Wellins Play Monk Resteamed 2007 SF Jazz Collective ...
Jim Pepper / Amina Claudine Myers / Anthony Cox / Leopoldo Fleming: Afro Indian Blues
by Donald Elfman
It's American roots music in flying colors as four simpatico musicians dig deeply at a 1991 Austrian jazz festival. Native American (Craw) Jim Pepper, African-Americans Amina Claudine Myers and Anthony Cox and Puerto Rican Leopoldo Fleming wowed the audience with “native music--the blues, jazz, Indian and African music that seems all about the passion and power ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by Donald Elfman
These Cuneiform people have a sense of what music grabbed people at a crucial point in the development of jazz and rock. Their sixth rare Soft Machine set is a thing of primal, noisy wonder, forged at a time when the fusion was “nuclear --causing sonic explosions. This version of the group--with the late Elton Dean ...
Christine Capdeville: Vision of Love
by Donald Elfman
Yes it is another recording by a female singer- songwriter but wait--something a little different is going on here. Christine Capdeville, born in France but now a fifteen-year resident of New York City, skillfully blends usual elements and emerges with something more. She has a rich, distinctive voice and a quirky, original approach to lyrics that ...
