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Kristin Asbjornsen: Wayfaring Stranger - A Spirtual Songbook

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 7, 2006

Kristin Asbjørnsen Wayfaring Stranger - A Spiritual Songbook Universal Music Norway 2006 Norwegian vocalist Kristin Asbjørnsen is gifted with a voice that sounds quite southern: deep and lustrous, with some hoarseness, lots of passion and a wide range. Her spiritual songbook Wayfaring Stranger demonstrates these qualities beautifully, as ...

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Phish: Colorado '88

by Doug Collette
December 2, 2006

Phish Colorado '88 Jemp Records 2006 Colorado '88 is the latest archive release from Phish, available as a three-disc set or as downloads from the band's website (the latter include five extra tracks). It's a set of recordings taken from Phish's first expedition outside of New ...

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Massimo: Mind Over Matter

by Phil DiPietro
November 30, 2006

Massimo Mind Over Matter Masfusion Productions 2006 It's always exciting to uncover a surprising new talent--the kid who comes out of nowhere. Hailing from Philly by way of Italy, Massimo DeAngelis (who prefers to be known as “Massimo"), at 40-plus no young kid perhaps, arrives as prog-fusion drumming's newest gun ...

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Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 28, 2006

Steve Swallow with Robert CreeleySo ThereXtraWatt/ECM2006 Bassist Steve Swallow has been meditating on the poetry of the late Robert Creeley (1926-2005) for a long time. In 1980, Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn released an album of song settings of Creeley's poems with vocalist Sheila Jordan ...

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Martirio & Chano Dominguez: Acoplados

by Ken Kase
November 23, 2006

Martirio & Chano Dominguez Acoplados Sunnyside Records 2006 Self-professed “fusions" of various musical forms in jazz are routinely and often justifiably treated with suspicion by critics and fans. The formulas employed for these events can be either fruitful and satisfying, or a recipe for utter pretentious disaster. Fortunately, Acoplados falls ...

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David Gilmore: Unified Presence

by Phil DiPietro
November 21, 2006

David Gilmore Unified Presence RKM Records 2006 Let's break it down. You won't find this statement in David Gilmore's bio or on his website, but here it is: Gilmore is one of the baddest guitarists on the planet. Here's why--rhythmic acuity. If I were to write a book on jazz, ...

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Miles Davis: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions

by CJ Shearn
November 10, 2006

The Miles Davis Quintet The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Prestige Records 2006 (1955-56) This box set includes the final five albums trumpeter Miles Davis made for Prestige. Davis recorded as a leader for the label from 1951-1956 and the albums capture an artist in the process of finding his own ...

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Bruce Hornsby: Intersections [1985-2005]

by John Kelman
November 4, 2006

Bruce Hornsby Intersections [1985-2005] Legacy Recordings 2006 One often wonders what path an artist might have taken had he or she made different creative choices. While it would be presumptuous to compare the two in terms of sheer impact, it's certainly a possibility that had Keith Jarrett chosen to pursue ...

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Prasanna: Electric Ganesha Land

by C.S.Vallikanth
November 3, 2006

Prasanna Electric Ganesha Land Susila Music 2006 Hot on the heels of the genre bending South Indian Carnatic/jazz fusion album Be The Change, Prasanna here offers another staggering experiment. This time he fuses Carnatic music with many of the known variants, and sources, of rock music--from hard rock ...

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Mort Weiss: The B3 And Me

by Samuel Chell
November 1, 2006

Mort Weiss The B3 And Me SMS Jazz 2006 Although the temptation to retitle this session Bambi Meets Godzilla is a powerful one, the encounter is neither a laughing matter nor a foregone conclusion. Mort Weiss is the Rip Van Winkle of jazz, a musician who dropped out of the ...