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Molly Holm: Permission

Read "Permission" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 13, 2013

Vocalist Molly Holm has had a potent progressive ("Avant-garde") presence in the Bay Area for three decades, having been an original member of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra and was a featured singer with Terry Riley and Zakir Hussain. Creatively, Holm never grew up into the proper, standard-singing chanteuse that many of her contemporaries did, rather she has ...

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Mary Jenson: Beyond

Read "Beyond" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2012

Vocalist Mary Jenson follows her well-received 2009 recording Close Your Eyes (Self Produced) with an homage to the dream state with Beyond. Coming from a large military family that never stayed put for long, Jenson developed a gypsy's soul and a musical taste for the world rhythmic and cosmopolitan. Her song selection is novel, including compositions ...

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George Brooks Summit: Spirit and Spice

Read "Spirit and Spice" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 25, 2010

The road taken by saxophonist, George Brooks on Spirit and Spice may not be new, and is far from the glamorous one that guitarist John McLaughlin blazed through in the 1970s and '80s, with various incarnations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. However, it remains a significant one if a musician playing in a Western idiom is willing ...

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Claude Pauly: Mind Meets Matter

Read "Mind Meets Matter" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 29, 2008

What do you get when you combine the heavy metal bebop lines of Scott Henderson, the inestimable chops of Frank Gambale, the close harmonic voicings of Allan Holdsworth, the occasional rough edges of John McLaughlin and a tinge of Latin affect? Guitarist Claude Pauly, on his debut, Mind Meets Matter, comes close to answering that question, ...

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Convergence

By Ian Dogole

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2006
Track listing: Nostalgia (Sheldon Brown) Mistura e Manda (Benedito Lacerda) John Coltrane (William E. Lee) Hijaz Oyun Havasi (Traditional) Jungle Jive II (Ian Dogole) House Party Starting (Herbie Nichols) Smiles for Billy (Ian Dogole)