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Donavan/Muradian Quintet: Pacifico
by Eric J. Iannelli
Another title for Pacifico could be The Lost EmArcy Sessions. The music on this disc—all original charts save one—comes straight out of the Brown/Roach hard bop stylebook with some additional nods to the Blue Note roster of the late ’50s and early ’60s; and it greets this reviewer’s (self-confessedly conservative) ears, bruised by the proliferation of ...
Interoce: The Other Side of the World
by Eric J. Iannelli
While attending the Osaka University of Foreign Studies in the early part of the 1990s, guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto developed a fancy for South American music, namely the Nueva Canción movement of Victor Jara (a fatality of Pinochet’s US-sponsored military coup in 1973) and Violeta Parra. He soon formed a likeminded jazz group called Playa Azul and ...
Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair
by Eric J. Iannelli
Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair Ken CheveuxSchneider & Haar Publishers 2004 If you were too preoccupied with the master trumpeter's playing, you might have overlooked what more style-conscious fans noticed all along: Miles Davis' coif changed almost as radically as his music over the ...
Adam Rudolph: The Mysteries of Creation
by Eric J. Iannelli
“I feel that creativity is greater than religion. It transcends race, transcends socio-political boundaries. It’s one of the things that defines us as human beings.”At the risk of oversimplification, you could argue that this statement is a credo of sorts for Adam Rudolph, the basis of his personal philosophy. Consequently, it is probably the ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Slow Breath, Silent Mind
by Eric J. Iannelli
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey tiptoes along the fine lines separating rock and jazz and all the various sub- and sub-sub- genres of the two. There’s a salient jam band ethos in their music, right next to the influences of classic and psychedelic rock, hard bop and experimental/avant jazz. This broad source of inspiration has won them ...
Paco de Luc: Cositas Buenas
by Eric J. Iannelli
When a musician as rare and as skilled as Paco de Lucía falls silent for over five years, you might guess that he’s either suffering a nervous breakdown in relative privacy, or he’s busy composing some of the best music of his career (though some artists have managed to do both at once). Cositas Buenas would ...
Big on Smalls
by Eric J. Iannelli
Smalls (aka Fat Cat in its present incarnation) was one of many New York jazz clubs engendered following the repeal of lingering Prohibition-era laws in 1988. Like so many of the peculiar ordinances that persist on the books all over the U.S. – take, for instance, the Alabama legislation declaring it illegal to wear a fake ...
Dynamic Duos
by Eric J. Iannelli
When called out of my comfortable little shell to rush to the defense of jazz, whether my interlocutor happens to be a dull-eyed pop devotee or a classical snob (which, of course, isn’t to say that both types do not exist in significant numbers among the jazz crowd), I usually bring with me a prepared mental ...
Dom Minasi: A Matter of Time
by Eric J. Iannelli
When Dom Minasi steps away from his intense schedule of composing, writing, teaching, recording and performing and pauses long enough to talk -- and even then the pace doesn't slow: the guitarist's sentences arrive in a relentless, stream-of-conscious barrage, full of names, anecdotes and ideas -- he seems to dwell on two words above all others: ...
Mina Agossi: E-Z Pass to Brooklyn
by Eric J. Iannelli
Recorded in October 2001, Mina Agossi’s E-Z Pass to Brooklyn has already been making the rounds in the Francophone world for some time, where at least one reviewer has lauded the effort as “incroyable” and even goes on to say, “Chaque morceau est une surprise.” Another reviewer favourably chimes in, “jamais vous n’avez entendu quelque chose ...
