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Asen Doykin: Meandering Road
by Glenn Astarita
As a performer, Bulgarian-born pianist Asen Doykin is firmly entrenched within the New York area jazz circuit but has toured the world, spreading good cheer with his inventive fusion of Balkan melodies and the jazz idiom. From a piano trio standpoint, Doykin offers a bit of resplendency and variety to the roads previously traversed. By injecting ...
The Bridge: The Bridge
by Glenn Astarita
They've been creating a positive buzz throughout the mid-Atlantic region of the USA, and should pick up some steam with their inaugural release for this well-known record label. A multitasking unit, The Bridge is a quintet that fuses a wide sampling of styles into its impetus, where rock, funk, roots music and soul/pop bespeak an optimistic ...
Cique: Cique
by Glenn Astarita
There's no eclectic connotation within this band's moniker, as the website denotes that the name is an anagram for “sick." Sickly wondrous, perhaps, where the core organ trio skirts the fringes of stylizations pursued by Medeski, Martin & Wood amid 1970s-style prog rock and bump/grind executed rhythms. Guitar hero John Abercrombie wields his magic on several ...
Pete Mills: Fresh Spin
by Glenn Astarita
Tenor saxophonist Pete Mills doesn't chart new musical frontiers on this 2007 release. On the contrary, he just gets it done the good old fashion way via lots of gusto, oomph and up-tempo grooves, performed with his estimable band-mates. Mills regenerates the jazz organ combo vibe here, complete with soul/funk, swing and meaty underpinnings provided by ...
Yutaka Uchida: Living Together
by Glenn Astarita
You don't need to be a music scholar to discern that drummer/composer Yutaka Uchida has immersed himself within a broad spectrum of jazz-related styles. After honing his practicing and educational musical persona in his native Japan, Uchida sojourned to New York City and became active in various jazz-related performances and disparate projects. As a composer, the ...
Ives Ensemble: Morton Feldman: String Quartet
by Glenn Astarita
There's always been a crossover appeal among avant, jazz artists with renegade contemporary classical composers. As with various musical forms, and perhaps life in general, rules are sometimes meant to be broken. String Quartet features a 1979-penned composition by Morton Feldman, recorded by the highly-regarded Dutch group known as the [Charles] Ives Ensemble. Feldman's ...
Field Effect: Audiovariac
by Glenn Astarita
The rather unlikely duo of jazz saxophonist Peter Gordon and studio processing/EFX wiz Matt Shire-Jones proves to be a fruitful relationship via their ongoing collaborations. The UK duo intimates the antithesis of that proverbial man vs. machine concept, here on this 2005 release. With guest artists chipping in on various tracks, the acoustic-electric component yields a ...
Jackson Analogue: And Then, Nothing
by Glenn Astarita
Here's a five-piece band hailing from the Isle of Wight, in the UK, that has been making some rather productive noise within rock music circles. And the beauty of it all resides within the artists' irrefutably upfront and nicely in-your-face retro 1970s hard rock/pop permutations. They also fuse late 1960s British blues, coupled with elements of ...
Lindsey Boullt: Composition
by Glenn Astarita
San Francisco area guitarist and educator Lindsey Boullt has assembled an interesting support lineup on Composition that radiates an Indo-progressive rock musical plane. Former Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis and Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jerry Goodman assist with the ensemble's keen enactment of world music and power-lined progressive rock.Boullt's loud, chunka-chunka chord voicings and super-speed single ...
Ahleuchatistas: Even In The Midst...
by Glenn Astarita
As a teen growing up in the 1970s, I was enamored by the complexities of a budding transcontinental progressive-rock scene. Odd-metered time signatures and jazz-like explorations were a feast for the ears, thanks to bands such as Gentle Giant, King Crimson and others. Fast-forwarding to the millennium, a new harvest of performers is perhaps ruling the ...
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