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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Article: Album Review

The Vampires: The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Read "The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti
April 5, 2018

Loro sono una delle formazioni australiane jazz che maggiormente si sta facendo notare a livello mondiale, lui uno dei chitarristi più quotati e che insieme a dischi registrati con Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding e Kenny Barron, sta dando vita a una entusiasmante serie di raffinatissimi album solisti. The Vampiers Meet Loueke celebra l'incontro fra lo strumentista nato in ...

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The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

By The Vampires

Label: Earshift Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Jeremy Rose: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Nick Garbett: trumpet; Lionel Loueke: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals; Jonathan Zwartz: bass; Danny Fischer: drums; Alex Masso: drums, cajon, bongos, pandeiro, wood block, cowbells, shakers.

Article: Album Review

The Vampires: The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Read "The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 26, 2017

The decade old Australian five piece The Vampires, fronted by dueting brass players Jeremy Rose and Nick Garbett, sought out the rising Beninese guitar prodigy Lionel Loueke for their ambitious fifth outing The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke. With the addition of Loueke's virtuoso playing and singular guitar tone to the soothing mix of ethnic-world-influenced music, written ...

Article: Album Review

The Vampires: The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Read "The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 16, 2017

As we mature as music listeners, the need to select a piece of music as your summer theme song, go-to party album, or road trip recording fades. Just like the childhood requirement to designate who is your best friend, we don't wear the grooves of records out these days. Let's, for old times sake, choose a ...