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Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra: It's About Time / Scallywag / Slammin' Joe's
by Jack Bowers
Delightful discourses from Down Under, courtesy of three high-flying albums by trombonist Daryl McKenzie's intrepid Jazz Orchestra from the merry old land of Oz (more widely known as Australia). The first, It's About Time, was recorded in 2007, the others (Scallywag, Slammin' Joe's) in 2010, when the band was roughly eight years old. Yes, big-band jazz ...
BoB: a Palindrome
by Chris M. Slawecki
The roll call of great bass players from Detroit includes Ron Carter, Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins. Robert Hurst, another Motor City musician, has for the past several years made a compelling case for his name on that list.Hurst picked up the bass at age 14 and was soon performing with Detroit trumpeter Marcus ...
UNI Jazz Band: The Hard Way
by Jack Bowers
UNI stands for the University of Northern Iowa whose tradition of producing first-rate big-band recordings spans more than two decades, first under director Bob Washut and more recently under his successor, Chris Merz (The Hard Way is the twentieth album by the university's Jazz Band One in my library). This is a “semi-live" date on which ...
Pop-Culture Blues
by Jack Bowers
The blues, as it turns out, has many shades; an enduring art form that has been an integral part of the language of jazz since its beginning (if not before). Some aspects of the blues are readily perceived, others not so much. “The common thread," Michael Treni writes in his astute liner notes to Pop-Culture Blues, ...
Bern Nix Quartet: Negative Capability
by Florence Wetzel
Guitarist Bern Nix has participated in many fine groups over the course of his career, most notably saxophonist Ornette Coleman's historic Prime Time, where Nix became one of the foremost interpreters of Coleman's groundbreaking harmolodic approach. These days Nix has created a quartet that's exploding onto the jazz scene in a big way. After a fiery ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
by Nenad Georgievski
Strangely beautiful, lush and stately, the Bad Seeds' Push the Sky Away is an absolute wonder of a record. It is bold, emotionally charged, beautiful, baffling and gorgeously intimate. After the fired-up extravaganza in the form of the Grinderman juggernaut, surprisingly there comes a record that is totally devoid of that volcanic noise and menace that ...
Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 6
by Doug Collette
Dave's Picks Volume 6 represents an important entry in this Grateful Dead archive series, on its own terms and as a crucial reminder of how this iconic band evolved around the cusp of the 1960's and the 1970's. Plus which, the sound quality of the recordings, originally administered by the famous Owsley “Bear" Stanley, is as ...
Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live At The Philadelphia Museum of Art
by C. Michael Bailey
In a period of profound artistic expansion and change in jazz, with labels like ECM, Winter & Winter and Pirouet and countless self- produced recordings erasing and redrawing genre lines, is it even proper (or even necessary) to celebrate the time tested, the mainstream, the old fashioned purveyors of the music? Is there a need for ...
Phish: Ventura
by Doug Collette
Phish: Ventura follows its predecessor Chicago '94 (Jemp Records, 2012) by compiling shows performed at the same venue. While not such a superlative set of gigs--the comparative virtues of these 1997 and 1998 concerts are more erratic--they do illustrate how a particular venue can affect a band's performance, whether on successive nights or successive tours. The ...
Lamacal
by Henning Bolte
Lama is a young Portuguese/Canadian trio with a firm foothold in both Rotterdam and Porto. Lama is trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, double bassist Gonçalo Almeida and drummer Greg Smith. Lamaçal, Lama's second album on Clean Feed, was recorded live during the Portalegre Jazz Fest in 2012, and features well known clarinetist/saxophonist Chris Speed as a guest. ...
