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Tim Volpicella: Many Places
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Concrete effort in panoramic jazz views. Good music is. Tim Volpicella’s Many Places is that also because of its appealing good looks and ease of enjoyment. Indeed, it is a visit to assorted musical headlands with akin views of melodious and harmonic spaces, albeit never quite staying in the ...
Haynes Seen!
by Javier AQ Ortiz
On September 28, 02 a date with Roy Haynes at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts , hosted by South Florida’s Gold Coast Jazz Society , featured him alongside Kenny Garrett, Nicholas Payton, Dwayne Burno and Dave Kikoski. Haynes, seen and heard on Birds Of A Feather-A Tribute To Charlie Parker, showed chops and a ...
Tito Puente & the Golden Latin Jazz All Stars: Tito Puente Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: A terrific live documentation of Puente’s distinctive foray in Jazz. The group and music in this gig is already documented in two recordings. At first, the live ‘92 Village Gate performance as part of the now defunct “Salsa Meets Jazz” series. At that time, Paquito D’Rivera and Claudio Roditi ...
The Dave Brubeck Quartet live Take Four, Five And More! - The Best of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
by Javier AQ Ortiz
It's 2001 and for little more than an hour, the Jazzopen in Stuttgart -soaked in audience- is the playground for Dave Brubeck's youthful old hands at play. EuroArts films this concert with their usual expertise, thus preserving quite a deserving presentation from a jazz rugged figure. They did take Four, Five and a bit More on ...
Da Vinci's Notebook: Brontosaurus
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Frat-housy exhilarating musical good times! You'll probably find yourself laughing it up upon listening to Brontosaurus, by the singing quartet Da Vinci's Notebook. Although an a cappella ensemble, they are variously supported by instruments in this excellent party recording. There is an enticing musical variety throughout the ...
Jos: Piano Con Mata
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Youthful jazz vigor penned with broad strokes of good-humored Puerto Rican musical acumen... José Lugo pops his cherry as a leader on Piano con mata and it is tight! This is a novel voice in jazz, Latin at that, with enough playing, producing, composing and arranging to keep listeners ...
Gabriel Szternsztejn: Gabriel Szternsztejn
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Unique and fascinating guitar led work in improvisational music that eludes genre categorization. “Sztez," as I can manage Gabriel Szternsztejn's last name, is a bearer of the future of guitar playing roaming alongside the border regions of several musical geographies. Improvisational-minded music, as “Sztez" produces here, immediately remits to ...
Kerry Politzer: Watercolor
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point : Classy jazz trio music. Watercolor features a happy coincidence between title and content. According to the Tallahassee Watercolor Society , the “fleeting effects of nature" are best captured through watercolor's “inherent luminosity" and “capacity for rapid execution." The Jazzification of Classical aesthetics one finds in this oeuvre is ...
Joseph Diamond: Island Garden
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point : Safe Latin jazz album that dips on several related musical genres. Island Garden is the latest production from pianist Joseph Diamond where he continues his Latin jazz ventures after his debut as leader in Not Your Typical New Yorker. Diamond is a fine pianist with amicable and ...
Winston Mankunku Ngozi: Molo Africa
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point : Burning Down the House!. Winston Mankunku Ngozi had no blowing restrictions on this date, that’s for sure! Although there are only seven compositions in this Ngozi production, there is enough in all of the cuts to please and fill anyone’s appetite in this fantastic oeuvre that varies itself ...
