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Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by Glenn Astarita
Highly regarded bassist Avery Sharpe has been a first-call session musician due to his long affiliation with pianist McCoy Tyner and others of note. Moreover, he's a viable solo artist, evidenced here on this multicolored 2009 piano trio venture. Sharpe is the traffic director here, though it's a democratic engagement, comprised of covers and original compositions, ...
Refuge Trio: Refuge Trio
by Glenn Astarita
The musical sound and scope of Refuge Trio resembles a sanctuary of genre-morphing frameworks, neatly compacted into a conspicuous group-focused mindset. Appropriately, the trio's name was inspired by Joni Mitchell's song “Refuge of The Roads," from the legendary singer/songwriter's Hejira (Elektra/Asylum, 1976), to coincide with a performance at the 2002 Wall-to-Wall Joni Mitchell concert at Symphony ...
Joe McPhee Survival Unit I I I: Don't Postpone Joy!
by Glenn Astarita
This 2007 release for the Italy-based Tracce label presents saxophonist/trumpeter Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III improvisation group, which signifies the final moniker for the trio that was originally called The Alto Trio. The origination of the core trio, known as Survival Unit I, came to fruition during the '60s, sparked by themes centered upon social injustices ...
The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone
by Glenn Astarita
The MacroQuarktet features a crème de la crème of New York's progressive jazz and improvisational contingent, although the respective instrumentalists know no bounds due to variable stints with like-minded artists across the globe. Recorded live at the Manhattan venue The Stone, the quartet--or, wittily cited as the Quarktet--casts an impressionistic aura into the rather expansive connotations ...
Feu Follet: Ministry of Rites - GRID
by Glenn Astarita
The superb Ministry of Rites - GRID yields a paradigm for the present day advancement electronics-based music's transmission of depth of expressionism. Amid numerous sound-shaping textures and an abundance of coherent mini-themes, Tobias Fischer and Rent Romus recorded this album remotely without any predefined musical borders. While they often project a mammoth wall of sound, it's ...
Sergey Kuryokhin: Absolutely Great!
by Glenn Astarita
Sergey Kuryokhin Absolutely Great! Leo Records 2008 This seven-disc boxed set was recorded at performances by the late Russian composer and keyboard player Sergey Kuryokhin in San Francisco in 1988. Kuryokhin was a musical genius who challenged the Soviet era's denial and repression of Western culture. An in-depth ...
Bob Rodriguez: Portraits
by Glenn Astarita
Recorded in 1994 and released in 2009, New York area pianist Bob Rodriguez doesn't delve into an existential framework splattered with hidden meanings. Simply stated, the album title intimates the artist's personalized musical portraitures equally divided between standards and originals. The pianist communicates great depth amid soul-stirring choruses and animated right hand leads. Rodriguez ...
Igor: Ogogo/Linden
by Glenn Astarita
Russian-reared guitarist Igor throws the book at any musical notion that might hint at being conventional. With these frenetic solo pieces, the artist's works are based on the abstract paintings of Ron Linden, depicted in the album booklet. Here, Igor's electrified guitar parts are designed upon fragmented and interweaving passages, spiced with bizarre discourses and quirky ...
String Trio of New York: The River of Orion: 30 Years Running
by Glenn Astarita
Established in 1979 with the Black Saint album First String, featuring Billy Bang manning the violin chair, the revered band String Trio of New York celebrates its 30-year anniversary with the impressionable effort, The River of Orion: 30 Years Running. Over the years, the trio has invited guest artists, such as saxophonist Oliver Lake and pianist ...
Harrison Smith Quartet: Telling Tales
by Glenn Astarita
British reed man Harrison Smith is known as both an inside and outside player, but his playing is rooted within traditional jazz attributes that interweave among the more progressive slants. With this quartet release, the artist injects a series of wide-ranging propositions into a crop of largely, memorable compositions marked by great depth and capacious musical ...
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