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3 Cohens: One
by Eric J. Iannelli
As if it weren't enough spending their formative years in each other's constant company, on August 18 of last year the children of Bilha and David Cohen cut their first album together, subjecting themselves to the overwhelming pressures of one-day studio recording -- pressures that have historically frustrated musicians who were blissfully ignorant of their session ...
Alessandro Carabelli Group: Over and Out
by Eric J. Iannelli
Going by its title alone, Over and Out sounds as if it's aiming to be a definitive farewell to something--traditionalism, perhaps, in these avant--and post-everything days of ours--but in actuality this is a polite, mild-mannered affair, the kind you can bring home to your parents and not worry about any crazy outbursts spoiling the otherwise routine ...
David S
by Eric J. Iannelli
David Sánchez Coral Columbia Records 2004 I once loaned my cherished copy of Clifford Brown with Strings to a German friend who had loaned me Dexter Gordon's Ballads in return. When it came time to reclaim our respective CDs, I asked her what she thought of the Brownie disc. “Very ...
Leo Records Recent Releases: Variations on a Theme
by Eric J. Iannelli
Leo Records tags itself as “music for the inquiring mind and the passionate heart." Over the past two-and-a-half decades, the UK label has released albums featuring The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Han Bennink, The Sun Ra Arkestra, Mat Maneri, Cecil Taylor, Reggie Workman and many other high- to mid-profile jazz musicians, always with an eye (and ...
Babaghanoush: Aphrodite Moves on
by Eric J. Iannelli
Babaghanoush is a Middle Eastern spread made from chopped eggplant and a type of sesame paste called tahini. It's often classed among Greek cuisine, but every country with a coast along the Mediterranean has at one time or another tried to claim responsibility for the invention of the dish. But now Babaghanoush has succeeded in turning ...
Man Bites Dog: Okno
by Eric J. Iannelli
"Jazz music," writes the French novelist Françoise Sagan, “is an intensified feeling of nonchalance." While this amusing little paradox might be contestable when applied broadly across the genre--isn't Coltrane's convulsive, rapturous later work the direct opposite of nonchalance?--it is certainly apparent throughout Okno, the third album from the Amsterdam-based outfit Man Bites Dog. On ...
Jon Wood: One to Five
by Eric J. Iannelli
Jon Wood's album is so named because there are between one and five musicians per track, making a total of fifteen musicians altogether; and it took fifteen months to record. Wood is the guitarist in The Fold, a UK folk-rock group. All of his Fold bandmates--including former violinist Eamon McLoughlin, now in the US with The ...
Chris Lacinak: Boom
by Eric J. Iannelli
The songs on Boom have an air of familiarity, as if you've heard them somewhere but can't quite remember where or when (a form of déjà vu, incidentally, which commonly afflicts Hart/Rodgers fans). Yet the odds that listeners have heard these before, especially if they are discovering New Orleans (by way of a ten-year stint in ...
Hugh Masekela: Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela
by Eric J. Iannelli
Still Grazing is a retrospective. Like all retrospectives that lack any kind of bonus material (even the token unreleased alternate take or live recording), it raises the question of just whom it is for. Fans of the South African trumpeter/flugelhorn player/vocalist/songwriter will already have most or all of these eleven songs, compiled from six albums released ...
Kerry Linder: Sail Away with Me
by Eric J. Iannelli
As a female vocalist offering distinctive, accessible performances of both familiar and new songs, Kerry Linder could quite easily eke out a spot next to Norah Jones and Katie Melua. Singing in Portuguese and English on her debut album, Sail Away with Me , the Curaçao native’s vocal style can be as haunting as Astrud Gilberto, ...
