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Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: Caprichos
by Glenn Astarita
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky is purportedly among the finest of the post-Soviet Russian progressive jazz trumpeters and as the story goes, he's paid the bills and augmented his artistry via his medical degree. On Caprichos he delves into a curiously interesting musical setting with a Russian strings section. Not quite Third Stream in a semi-literal sense, it's more ...
The Pineapple Thief: Tightly Unwound
by Glenn Astarita
This four-piece unit sways along a thin line, where alternative rock attains a fruitful coexistence with more progressive musical elements. Founded by guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist Bruce Soord for his solo ventures, Pineapple Thief subsequently solidified its group-centric entity back in 2002. Fast-forwarding to this 2008 release, the musicians' methodology looms as a paradox of sorts. ...
Random Touch: A Box And A Word
by Glenn Astarita
With its tenth release, Random Touch fires phasers and spews electronic sounds into the cosmos. It’s as if they’re zooming into the outreaches of space via jagged angles, while all notions of physics are completely disregarded. Nonetheless, the musicians embark upon a free-form, genre-bashing sequence of events. On the opener, "Floating in a Spiral," ...
Dan Pinto: Anomalies
by Glenn Astarita
Add Dan Pinto to the list of jazz-rock and fusion Renaissance men. Amid numerous scores for TV and film, Pinto commenced his career as a formidable drummer and then honed his keyboard skills, while absorbing the fundamentals of progressive rock and fusion keyboard heroes of the '70s and onward. Recorded at his hi-tech studio, Pinto's third ...
Fernando Huergo: Provinciano
by Glenn Astarita
Without reading the press kit or liners prior to a first listen, something unique is readily apparent about Argentinean bassist/composer/educator Fernando Huergo's modernistic amalgamation of modern jazz and tango. An instructor at Tufts University and Assistant Professor in the Bass Department at Berklee College of Music, Huergo surpasses the traditional forms of ethnocentric Latin song structures ...
Vince Mendoza: Blauklang
by Glenn Astarita
For jazz aficionados, composer/arranger Vince Mendoza's artisanship is a well-known entity. However, he's also enamored the works of pop-rock stars of note, including Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello and Sheryl Crow. Mendoza is a master-craftsman who possesses a keen ear to complement his vivid imaginative powers, characteristics that are fastidiously transmitted throughout this rather wondrous ...
Blackmore's Night: Secret Voyage
by Glenn Astarita
For several years, famed Deep Purple guitarist Richie Blackmore has been assimilating the sounds of enchantment via Euro-folk, Baroque and medieval thematic forays. But the qualitative component is steeped within the ensemble's Renaissance rock-based stylization. With its seventh studio release, the band surges onward via the delightful Secret Voyage, featuring the angelic and numinous vocals of ...
Art Cinema: Art Cinema
by Glenn Astarita
Danish multi-instrumentalist Robin Taylor might be considered a modern day professor of progressive rock. He fuses the best of the past while instilling a sense of newness into his expanding discography. Art Cinema signifies a project that was brought about via Taylor's musical relationship with guitarist Michael Denner, who appeared on Soundwall (Independent, 2007), by Taylor's ...
Greg Howe: Sound Proof
by Glenn Astarita
Since the late '80s, guitarist Greg Howe has spiraled his way towards the créme de la créme of the progressive-rock/jazz-fusion elite. With his first album since Extraction (Tone Center, 2003), the guitarist spawns more of his melodically shaded, super-speed legato lines while honing in a tad more on the compositional element. This album also features a ...
Mark O'Leary: Ellipses
by Glenn Astarita
Irish guitar wunderkind Mark O'Leary has now set his sights on the jazz-fusion element, to complement his already expansive improvisational vernacular. This 2008 effort might open up a few more doors for an artist who possesses the goods to go anywhere he darn well pleases. For this project, O'Leary and his trio investigate black hole stars ...
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