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Jim Pugliese: Live @ Issue Project Room NYC
by Francis Lo Kee
In the tradition of raucously creative Downtown NYC jazz-rock bands like Curlew and Naked City, Jim Pugliese's Phase III burns with passion that is both musical and conceptually bold and is a great working band, not just a thrown-together collection of accomplished soloists. Yet these are not mere AABA compositions nor are they played to display ...
Donald Harrison: The Chosen
by Francis Lo Kee
Donald Harrison's The Chosen is dedicated to the people who do their “best, no matter what circumstances come" their way. If you know anything about Harrison, you know that he's from New Orleans and suffered significantly after Hurricane Katrina so he knows what he is talking about. This collection of originals and standards displays Harrison as ...
Jack Walrath: Ballroom
by Francis Lo Kee
Jack Walrath not only displays tremendous trumpet playing, a rich and varied approach to composition and wonderful band, he also puts something into this fantastic CD that's missing from too much new jazz: a sense of fun and humor. That's not to say that it isn't sensitive and touching at times--"An Hour Blessed" is arguably as ...
Marc Copland: Another Place / Night Whispers
by Francis Lo Kee
Marc Copland Another Place Pirouet Records 2008 Marc Copland New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 3: Night Whispers Pirouet Records 2008 The prolific pianist Marc Copland continues the ...
Jay D'Amico: Tuscan Prelude
by Francis Lo Kee
Tuscan Prelude is Jay D'Amico's fourth recording as a leader. Though talk of a combination of classical music and jazz might conjure up sonic images of the Modern Jazz Quartet, a comparison to John Lewis, wouldn't do credit to either D'Amico or Lewis, in spite of the fact that both have a fast, accurate, but delicate ...
Larry Willis: The Offering, Excursions & Expose
by Francis Lo Kee
Larry Willis The Offering HighNote 2008 Paul Murphy/Larry Willis Excursions Wicked Chops 2008 Paul Murphy/Larry Willis Expose Murphy 2008
Charles Gayle: Touchin' On Trane
by Francis Lo Kee
A long time ago, there was an advertising line: “The Rolling Stones are not just a band; they are a way of life." That ad man was of course tapping into the old adage of jazz: if you don't live it, it won't come through your music. In the '90s, The New Thing of the '60s ...
Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz
by Francis Lo Kee
Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way ...
Randy Sandke: Unconventional Wisdom
by Francis Lo Kee
Listening to a tune like “Chega de Saudade," the ninth tune on trumpeter Randy Sandke's Unconventional Wisdom, there's the feeling that this quartet session is from a recorded concert: the honest, joyous drive of the rhythm section, the trumpet singing Jobim's melody and the guitar supporting it with clear harmonies that are rhythmically in sync. Yet, ...
Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page
by Francis Lo Kee
Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page Todd Bryant Weeks Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0415990777 Routledge 2008 Almost any book on trumpeter Hot Lips Page (1908-1954) would, of course, be welcome in the library of jazz scholarship, ...
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