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Roswell Rudd: Keep Your Heart Right
by Fred Bouchard
Ruby Braff once described a jazz combo as “conversation among friends." Venerated veteran trombonist Roswell Rudd rates prime candidacy for Mister Congeniality as he relaxes in witty repartee and pleasant banter with like-thinking colleagues: stalwart-yet-light-fingered pianist Lafayette Harris Jr., orotund bassist Brad Jones and singer Sunny Kim, a dew-dappled voice of reason and cheer. Rudd, self-styled ...
Jason Robinson: Eyes In The Back Of My Head & Fingerprint
by Fred Bouchard
Cosmologic Eyes in the Back of My Head Cuneiform 2008 Jason Robinson Fingerprint Circumvention Music 2008 Over the past decade, street-savvy, hard-hitting urban quartet Cosmologic has built ...
New York Trio: Thou Swell & Always
by Fred Bouchard
New York Trio Thou Swell Venus 2007 New York Trio Always Venus 2008 Does any jazz musician alive today (be it player or singer) share more devotedly and mine with deeper conviction that widely-vaunted but too-often-dismissed-with-lip-service Great American Songbook than pianist Bill Charlap? ...
Trombonopia!: Bill Cantrall, David Gibson & Matt Haviland
by Fred Bouchard
Bill CantrallAxiomUp Swing2008 David GibsonG-RaysNagel Heyer2008 Matt HavilandBeyond Good and EvilConnotation2008 Three trombone-playing leaders here afford themselves plush settings for some pretty ...
Eric Person: Rhythm Edge
by Fred Bouchard
This fleet suite of 78 minutes fans out like a brilliant kaleidoscope of musical events, dovetailing thematic ideas and playful brief solos. After an elastic spooky turn on the Jerome Kern classic “Yesterday," a panoply of 13 originals leads down merry paths of ear-tweaking modes and startling arpeggiated lines at rattlingly good but often-shifting tempos. Rhythm ...
Steve Swallow: Swallow Songs & Dedicated to Steve
by Fred Bouchard
Mellow, majestic, mischievous--smooth mnemonics come to mind when listening (or even thinking) about bassist Steve Swallow's music. The estimable (nay, venerable) progenitor of jazz electric bass (or is it Monk Montgomery?) has more basslines up his sleeve than Svengali had pigeons, and his sinuous sleight-of-hand with chord progressions dazzles with its deceptive "ease" of ...
Trombone Solos: Wolter Wierbos & Denis Beuret
by Fred Bouchard
Wolter Wierbos 3 Trombone Solos DolFijn 2008 Denis Beuret Alone Leo 2008 Though the vocalizing of jazz lines and effects on wind instruments is famously attributed to ...
Radio I-Ching: The Fire Keeps Burning
by Fred Bouchard
Ever eat wild duck? It can be tough and sinewy but often has oddly fascinating flavors. Try it spit-roasted over resiny charcoal from a Djibouti street vendor and you get an idea of Radio I-Ching--wacky quacky. The odd intersections of 'world' music (here Pan-AfroAsian meets jazz and Americana pop) are strangely unsettling yet grounded in this ...
Poetry Jazz: N-Side, Barry Wallenstein & Kirpal Gordon
by Fred Bouchard
N-Side Jazz Opera: a poetic tribute to drummer extraordinaire William “Smiley" Winters Shalamar 2007 Barry Wallenstein Euphoria Ripens Cadence Jazz 2008 Kirpal Gordon Album Title #3 Record Label ...
Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum
by Fred Bouchard
This magical debonair international trio reminds us once again of the porosity of walls between nations and fluidity of musical styles, as it flits through an enticing shadow world that recaptures Paris in the 1950s. Swedish Jan Lundgren's pointillist piano blends dreamily with Richard Galliano's poignant squeezebox and Sardinian Paolo Fresu's acerbic, haunted trumpet to raise ...
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