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John Fahey: Vol. 4 - The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions
by Glenn Astarita
Vol. 4 - The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions represents archival material culled from the early to mid-60’s by legendary acoustic guitar pioneer John Fahey who melded traditional Americana type themes with a deeply personalized vernacular. On the nineteen-minute title track, the guitarist combines grassroots style picking with odd tunings, unorthodox phrasing and ...
Bernd Konrad-Hans Koller Unit with Didier Lockwood: Phonolith
by Glenn Astarita
Phonolith is brought to you by the Germany-based, “Bernd Konrad-Hans Koller Unit” yet features a multinational cast of modern jazz notables appearing on selected tracks. The title piece commences and finalizes this outing in two slightly different flavors, yet on “Phonolith 1”, violinist Didier Lockwood lends his expertise to a composition that launches with a blazing ...
John Fahey: Vol. 4 - The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions
by Glenn Astarita
Vol. 4 - The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions represents archival material culled from the early to mid-60’s by legendary acoustic guitar pioneer John Fahey who melded traditional Americana type themes with a deeply personalized vernacular. On the nineteen-minute title track, the guitarist combines grassroots style picking with odd tunings, unorthodox phrasing and ...
Denny Zeitlin Trio: As Long As There's Music
by Glenn Astarita
Practicing psychiatrist and jazz pianist extraordinaire, Denny Zeitlin has long been considered one of the finest exponents of his craft and here with, As Long As There’s Music, the artist elegantly performs a series of standards and a few originals along with a top notch rhythm section. Basically, Zeitlin epitomizes taste and flair, while garnering the ...
John Lindberg Ensemble: A Tree Frog Tonality
by Glenn Astarita
With A Tree Frog Tonality, it becomes easily discernible that we are listening to a union of seasoned modern jazz experts who demonstrate their respective crafts with cunning artistry and inspiring resolve. Bassist John Lindberg is arguably one of the finest acoustic bassists on this modern jazz globe as his credits and resume reads like an ...
Uri Caine Ensemble: The Goldberg Variations
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist/composer Uri Caine has assembled a rather large aggregation of talent for this thoroughly audacious rendering of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Goldberg Variations. And while Caine has tackled Mahler, Wagner and Schumann with much success, on this release, the pianist melds classical music with genre hopping, doses of humor and sprightly interludes that makes for one ...
John Lindberg Ensemble: A Tree Frog Tonality
by Glenn Astarita
With A Tree Frog Tonality, it becomes easily discernible that we are listening to a union of seasoned modern jazz experts who demonstrate their respective crafts with cunning artistry and inspiring resolve. Bassist John Lindberg is arguably one of the finest acoustic bassists on this modern jazz globe as his credits and resume reads like an ...
Jacques Chanier Trio: Kite Flight
by Glenn Astarita
The piano trio format gets a boost with this new recording by the Boston-based “Jacques Chanier Trio”. On Kite Flight, pianist Jacques Chanier, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Brooke Sofferman interject prominent doses of grandeur and verve into this set consisting of ten Chanier original compositions. Essentially, the music zips by at an often-whirlwind pace. Other ...
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Petrophonics
by Glenn Astarita
With their 10th recording titled Petrophonics, Boston Massachusetts based “Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic” have perhaps achieved the pinnacle of mastery with this truly superb newly released effort. Here, pianist/composer Erik Lindgren and woodwind specialist Ken Field cap off a string of successful solo ventures as the duo realigns with guitarist Michael Bierylo and synthesizer ace Rick ...
John Butcher/Phil Durrant: Requests And Antisongs
by Glenn Astarita
Requests And Antisongs represents a series of pieces performed by two prominent masters of the British improv scene, saxophonist John Butcher and violinist, electronics expert Phil Durrant. Yet here, Durrant often counters or parallels Butcher’s fragmented themes and lines by solely utilizing – live electronics and modular feedback. With the opener, “Sheet Bends”, the listener should ...
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