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Eivind Opsvik: Overseas II
by AAJ Staff
Because of the instrumentation on Overseas II--specifically the lack of guitar--and because there is so much lyricism in Eivind Opsvik's music, one might hesitate to call it fusion. Yet on one hand, pronounced backbeats inevitably emerge out of the flying cross-rhythms set up by Opsvik's gigantic bass and the rest of the rhythm section. On the ...
Matt Renzi: The Cave
by Dan McClenaghan
From reedman Matt Renzi's wanderlust comes The Cave, music inspired by a four-year period when the musician lived in Japan, New York, India, and Italy.On this approachable trio effort, Renzi and company have crafted a sound that walks a line between the familar and the exotic, a music full of cool tones and wandering ...
Don Peretz: Foremen
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Don Peretz is onto something here as he pilots this New York City-based quartet through an expansive musical aura where improvisation and compositional structure attain a happy medium. Take for example, Russ Johnson's crybaby-like muted trumpet choruses on “Simple Man, as Perez and bassist Dave Ambrosio lay down a tight groove amid a tunefully, blues-oriented ...
Sergi Sirvent: Free Quartet
by AAJ Staff
Sergi Sirvent is an interesting young pianist whose style is hard to pigeonhole. To his credit, he is shaping a thoroughly original approach to jazz piano improvisation. On the other hand, his improvisations sound fragmented at times, almost as if they were a series of isolated phrases and ideas with insufficient connective tissue. In ...
Dave Allen: Untold Stories
by Donald Elfman
The Fresh Sound label and its owner, Jordi Pujol, continue to mine untapped wealth in New York with the New Talent series, discovering scores of fine musicians playing and writing under the radar, extending the jazz tradition by exploring new colors in which to improvise. The label's latest release is guitarist Dave Allen's debut.Allen--who ...
Alexander Schimmeroth Trio: Arrival
by AAJ Staff
Arrival marks the debut of German pianist Alexander Schimmeroth as a leader, and based on this album, he appears to be a budding individualist and a stimulating, thoughtful, even witty improviser. Schimmeroth's approach can be deceptive. With his nuanced touch and manner of voicing chords, he sounds much like a capable, albeit not especially ...
Alan Ferber: Scenes From An Exit Row
by Budd Kopman
Scenes from an Exit Row is a simply wonderful, unique mainstream recording and a perfect example of one the main problems in jazz today: that such high quality composing and arranging, not to mention the performances of the musicians involved, can easily get lost in the mass of new releases. There is such a surfeit of ...
Jaleel Shaw: Perspective
by Joel Roberts
Jaleel Shaw certainly knows how to make an entrance. The first cut on the alto saxophonist's first outing as a leader has already earned the Philadelphia native an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. That tune, “Heavyweight Champion, an inspired tribute to one of his heroes, John Coltrane, is just one of many treats on this impressive ...
Myron Walden: This Way
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Alto saxophonist Myron Walden's quartet on This Way, featuring bassist Vicente Archer, drummer E.J. Strickland, and tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene, is quite robust.The musicians engage in a scorching pursuit of heavy swinging and melodically dissonant bopping on “Like I See It. As the saxophonists burn with discriminating abandon, their respective approach to thematic progressions ...
Rick Germanson: You Tell Me
by Brian P. Lonergan
Pianist Rick Germanson was named one of AAJ-NY's Best New Talents of 2004. If there were any questions as to why, You Tell Me should help answer them. Germanson's sophomore recording is a solid piano trio outing in which he peppers his original compositions with a few lesser-played standards, mixing ballads and a fine blues with ...
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