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Emil Viklicky Trio: Ballads And More
by Victor Verney
Emil Viklicky Trio Ballads And More Arta 2008 Pianist Kenny Barron, on several occasions, has said that in his view the ballad is what separates the wheat from the chaff with musicians. “As far as I'm concerned," he maintains, “if you can't play a ballad, forget about it!" ...
Tom Heasley: A Passage to Sound
by Tobias Fischer
Tom HeasleyA Passage to SoundFull Bleed Music2008 ---> Tom Heasley is sensitive about the way that people label his music--very sensitive in fact. We've been in regular contact ever since I first listened to Passages (Full Bleed Music, 2007), a disc filled to the brim with spacey, sensuous and eruptive ...
Everybody's Got A Name
by Edward Blanco
Greg Chako Everybody's Got A Name Self Published 2008 Guitarist and composer Greg Chako is the consummate musician who, despite personal hardships in his life, dedicates himself to the art of jazz with every fiber of his being, producing one fine album after another. Everybody's Got a Name ...
Oscar Peterson: Date with Oscar
by Tom Greenland
Oscar PetersonDate with OscarMembran Records2008 Alongside of the sad news of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson's passing comes Date With Oscar, a ten-disc retrospective of his activities from 1950-56, a period of artistic flowering and prodigious productivity. Date is an uneven set, chock-full of gems, both lesser- ...
Tim Miller: Trio Vol. 2
by Phil DiPietro
Tim Miller Trio Vol. 2 Avenir Records 2008 Very few guitarists have digested, head-on, the daunting influence of Alan Holdsworth, and then assimilated it into their own playing. Fewer still have combined Holdsworth's no-longer-futuristic linearity with the science of melodic chord permutation, as promulgated by the likes of George Van ...
Tigran Hamasyan: New Era
by Jay Deshpande
Tigran Hamasyan New Era Nocturne 2006 At twenty-one, pianist Tigran Hamasyan has already done much to launch his name into the world of emergent young lions. He has toured throughout Europe, moving beyond his native Armenia to take prizes in jazz competitions from Moscow to Monaco. And, ...
LD Frazier with Scott Stroman and The Eclectic Voices: I Was There When The Spirit Came
by Samuel Chell
LD Frazier I Was There When The Spirit Came 33 Jazz 2006 Even before Ray Charles blended gospel music and American pop, pianist-composer Horace Silver had composed and recorded “The Preacher," followed in short order by the jubilant, infectious sounds of gospel music on jazz recordings by fellow bandleaders drummer ...
Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble: Jazz Spoken Here / Extra Credit
by Jack Bowers
Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble Jazz Spoken Here / Extra Credit Self Published 2006 / 2007I used to listen to the Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble, then directed by Don Owens, in concert some years ago while living in the Chicago area. On these recordings, from 2006 and 2007, the ...
Steve Khan: The Suitcase
by Mark F. Turner
Steve Khan The Suitcase Tone Center 2008 In the annals of rediscovered live jazz recordings, The Suitcase, by guitarist Steve Khan, ranks among the best in recent memory. Nothing is quite like the experience of live jazz, but this 1994 performance at the Stadtgarten Club in Koln, Germany, ...
Matana Roberts: The Chicago Project
by Mark F. Turner
Matana Roberts The Chicago Project Central Control International 2008 Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts, sounds as if she's been here before. You can hear it in her voice, a definite tonality, a lyrical spiritual essence that recalls the voices of reed players Ornette ...
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