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Jon Gold: Bossa of Possibility

Read "Bossa of Possibility" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Keyboardist Jon Gold continues where he left off with Brazil Confidential (Blujazz Records, 2011) and his love for Brazilian and Latin jazz. He brings back several of the musicians from that date to help essay 12 new compositions which ease into terrain that goes beyond his root calling. He adds to the mood of the music ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite

Read "Maiden Voyage Suite" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Imagine a painter, sculptor or writer attempting to recreate a masterpiece done by a Picasso, Michelangelo or Shakespeare. The task redefines challenge and chutzpah. While jazz recreations are more common than those in other arts--Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's marvelous revisit (Americana Music, 2004) of the Miles Davis/Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958), ...

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Article: Live Review

Greg Abate Teaneck, NJ December 10, 2011

Read "Greg Abate  Teaneck, NJ  December 10, 2011" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Greg AbateTeaneck, NJDecember 10, 2011 “Capitalism Sucks," a mural by Mike Alewitz which graphically depicts the anti- democratic nature of capitalism, hangs on a wall behind the performance space at The Puffin Cultural Forum. An all-powerful puppet master and a host of minions from the clergy, academia and the media, all exploit ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones

Read "Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaiden Voyage Suite WJO2010 The heavy-hitting Westchester Jazz Orchestra, one of whose ambitions under artistic director Mike Holober is to broaden its musical horizons, devotes its second album to renovating for a sixteen-member ensemble the music of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic recording Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, ...

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Jake Hertzog: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Guitarist Jake Hertzog's previous recordings as leader, Chromatosphere (That's Out, 2009) and Patterns (Buckyball, 2010) created a stir, with reviewers comparing his talent to just about every jazz and rock guitarist who's ever been described as a legend, from the 1940s on. What this hints rather broadly at is Hertzog's cross-generational approach and stylistic variation which ...

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Take Five With Jake Hertzog

Read "Take Five With Jake Hertzog" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jake Hertzog: Jake Hertzog's accomplishments as a jazz musician mesh with his love for the rock idiom, creating almost an entirely new musical language. His new album, Evolution, co- produced by the great jazz bassist Harvie S, the original compositions (except for Jake's version of Bruce Springsteen's “Streets of Philadelphia") have been mastered ...

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Jake Hertzog: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


Evolution is the third solo outing from guitarist Jake Hertzog, Guitar Player Magazine contributor and member of the rock band, The Young Presidents. Although the album appears weighted towards jazz fusion, it is the rock-inflected phrases woven into the music that saves it from running into all-too-familiar jazz guitar footprints. The generational sound of this recording ...

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Cocolamus Bridge

Label: Blue Bamboo Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Eili Gheal Chiuin; Cocolamus Bridge; Courage; Coco Loco; Night Dreamer; To Bea; Ike (take a Hike); Truth and Beauty.

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Harvie S: Cocolamus Bridge

Read "Cocolamus Bridge" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The re-imagining of a traditional Irish ballad, “Eili Gheal Chiuin," does more than define the breathtaking skills of bassist Harvie S, as he takes wing on Cocolamus Bridge. It sets him apart as one of the very few virtuoso bassists of today. He has courage way beyond the narrow definition of the word, and has a ...

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Article: Album Review

Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago

Read "When I Was Long Ago" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The immortal duets of vocalist Sheila Jordan with virtuoso bassists Cameron Brown and Harvie S, and with pianist extraordinaire, Steve Kuhn, now have a boon companion in Rebecca Martin's extraordinary trio album, When I Was Long Ago. Placing it with Jordan's legendary recordings is a must. The bassist on this session, Larry Grenadier, is in fine ...


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