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TriPod
By TriPod
Label: Independent Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1.Rain Parade 2.Trip The Light 3.No Side of Maybe 4.As The Sun 5.Incident (Suite) 6.Four Winds 7.Jerome
Rick Washbrook: A Gypsy's Bed
by Todd S. Jenkins
There are fans, and then there are fans. When it comes to the late Lenny Breau, Rick Washbrook is a fan. Breau was a Canadian jazz guitar genius whose distinctive style of fingering two-note chords while playing the melody on top was highly influential to mainstream jazz guitarists. For some reason Breau never became as well-known ...
TriPod: TriPod
by Glenn Astarita
The trio known as Morphine enamored many rock fans with its hard-hitting amalgamation of blues-rock pieces led by the late Mark Sandman's 2-string bass attack. Meanwhile, the New York City-based trio Tripod reformulates some of these concepts into more of a progressive mold. Here, lead vocalist/12-string bassist Clint Bahr and woodwind specialist Keith Gurland both utilize ...
Saxman Greg Vail: The Gospel Truth
by Dave Hughes
Saxman Greg Vail’s newest offering The Gospel Truth is, as its title suggests, rich with the influence of church music, while occasionally sporting funky soulfulness in varying degrees. The opener finds Vail’s saxophones in R&B mode, framed by a gospel choir. Vail’s rich tenor recalls Gato Barbieri on the Coster/Santana tune “Europa,” expressing all of the ...
Djam Karet: Ascension - New Dark Age Vol. 2
by Glenn Astarita
“Djam Karet’s” customary blend of hard driving and inventively implemented progressive rock is diverted to the background on their latest effort, which is a limited edition of only 750 copies. Otherwise, for those who have followed the group’s sixteen-year rite of passage through a series of idiosyncratic offerings are also aware of the musicians’ ambient-electronic and ...
Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge: Serengeti
by Jim Josselyn
The rhythms of Latin music are some of the most challenging in jazz. To play this music convincingly, mastery of its syncopation, odd groupings, accents, grooves and poly-rhythms are absolutely required, and this is no easy task. On Serengeti, Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge prove not only are they masters of the groove, but tasteful, ...
Claudia Schmidt and the Jump Boys: "Live" at the Old Rectory Pub
by Dave Nathan
For the last several years, Claudia Schmidt has been one of the Midwest's most well known folk performers, utilizing voice and guitar. She has now reinvented herself as a jazz/blues singer and dispatches the play list on this CD as if she has been doing this material forever. Judging by the applause, so does the audience ...
Claudia Schmidt with the Jump Boys: I Thought About You
by Dave Nathan
During the 1980's, Claudia Schmidt was a popular Mid West folk singer with her many albums, frequent appearances on such shows as A Prairie Home Companion, festivals and gigs. She has recently moved away from Folk, becoming a jazz singer. For this her second jazz album, she and her group, The Jump Boys, went into the ...
Chris Gestrin Quartet: Times That Do Not Belong To Us
by Ben Ohmart
Chris Gestrin - piano and synth, Bill Vint - saxophones, Joel Fountain - drums and beat, Danny Parker - half the bass, Marc Rogers - the other half. Those are the players. Now meet the smooth, frozen delight music, punctuated softly by Gestrin's refined keyboard skill. Sticking to piano mostly (rather than an obvious synthesizer), he ...
Michael Ross Quartet: Doghouse
by Glenn Astarita
Doghouse, by the Florida-based “Michael Ross Quartet” serves as a judicious or perhaps glowing example of the many hard working and inventive jazz ensembles out there, who merit widespread exposure. With this new release, bassist Michael Ross leads a focused, highly charged outfit who infuse rock, funk and swing beats into their musical palate, while saxophonist ...
