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Rob Garcia Presents: Finding Love In An Oligarchy On A Dying Planet On Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records - April 29, 2016

ROB GARCIA PRESENTS: FINDING LOVE IN AN OLIGARCHY ON A DYING PLANET ON BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND RECORDS APRIL 29, 2016 Featuring the Rob Garcia 4: Rob Garcia (drums & compositions), Noah Preminger (tenor saxophone), Gary Versace (piano), Masa Kamaguchi (bass), with special guests Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), Kate McGarry (vocals) & Brendan Burke (spoken word) CD ...
Kurt Elling at Bing Concert Hall

by Lily O'Brien
Kurt Elling Stanford Jazz / Bing Concert Hall Palo Alto, CA February 27, 2016 Kurt Elling is full of it--talent that is. As a vocalist, performer and writer/poet, he is just, simply--off the charts. His performance for Stanford Live at Bing Concert Hall, at Stanford University in Palo Alto on Saturday, ...
Ralph Alessi: Quiver

by Mark Sullivan
Quiver finds trumpeter Ralph Alessi and his quartet in a lyrical, reflective mood. Alessi describes the atmosphere in the recording studio as pensive," a quality that imbues this music. The group includes most of the players from Alessi's acclaimed ECM leader debut Baida (2013). Drew Gress (double-bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums) return, with Gary Versace taking ...
Joseph Howell: Time Made to Swing

by Mark Sullivan
Ace clarinetist Dr. Joseph D. Howell dedicated this CD to the late Buddy DeFranco, king of bebop clarinet. In addition to being a role model as a player, his recordings with accordionist Tommy Gumina inspired Howell's collaboration with Cory Pesaturo, accordionist on this album. The accordion has found its way onto a number of jazz recordings ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields

by Karl Ackermann
At the time Maria Schneider released Evanescence (Enja, 1994), big band jazz--especially in the US--was overly predictable and indecisively hanging on like ballroom music in a ghost town. Schneider, while embracing the best practices of earlier legendary big band leaders and her mentors, Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer, had added unconventional elements to her own compositions. ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields

by Angelo Leonardi
Scomparso Butch Morris, Maria Schneider è da considerare il massimo compositore-orchestratore del jazz contemporaneo. Ogni suo nuovo disco è un evento e The Thompson Fields lo è in misura maggiore per la lunga gestazione che l'ha caratterizzato. A sette anni di distanza dal celebrato Sky Blue (Artist Share, 2007) Maria presenta nuove composizioni in un ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields

by Budd Kopman
The singular achievement of Maria Schneider is to merge the particular with the universal: to use her very personal experiences and memories as grist for music which is aurally beautiful and deeply infused with love. This love originates from Schneider the person and artist; it is amplified and returned by those directly involved in ...
Ray Anderson's Organic Quartet: Being the Point

by Stefano Merighi
Un suono scuro, profondo, indeterminato nelle intenzioni, trova improvvisamente la luce del calypso. Una luce che spinge la musica verso una danza sinuosa, scattante. È l'inizio di Being the Point, disco che riporta Ray Anderson alle sue passioni per il blues, per New Orleans, per i ritmi obliqui già frequentati all'epoca di Slickaphonics. ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields

by Dan Bilawsky
There's a wealth of information to be found inside the beautiful packaging that accompanies this release, but a brief Theodore Roosevelt quote may be the most telling piece of text to be found there. It reads: There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals ...
Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath

by Vincenzo Roggero
Insolito l'Infrasound Octet allestito dalla pianista/compositrice/bandleader Kris Davis per la realizzazione di Save Your Breath: quattro grandi interpreti della famiglia dei clarinetti (Ben Goldberg, Oscar Noriega, Joachim Badenhorst e Andrew Bishop), le alchimie dell'organo di Gary Versace, la chitarra mutante di Nate Radley, la batteria proteiforme di Jim Black ed il pianoforte della stessa Davis. Insolita ...