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Daniel Yvinec: The Lost Crooners
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Lost Crooners would be a great name for a band or, better still, a Roberto Bolaño novel. It's also the name of the enigmatic new trio recording by bassist Daniel Yvinec, just named next musical director of France's National Jazz Orchestra.Seven of the originals on the disc were recorded, at one point or ...
Buck 65: Situation
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Buck 65 Situation Warner Music 2007 Buck 65 is a rapper well past 30 from semi-rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His earlier Talkin' Honky Blues (Warner Music Canada, 2003) was a masterpiece. Indisputably a hip hop record, its banjos and pedal steel guitars, overlaid by Buck's gravelly voice, had ...
Bruno Thieblemont Group: Septieme couleur
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Bruno Thieblemont is a classically trained musician, having studied the oboe and percussion, and played with various chamber music and orchestral ensembles in France. He's led a double musical life, though, playing jazz vibes and forming his own quintet in 2006. The quintet's début is Septième couleur.On balance, the album hews a middle path ...
Jean-Paul Celea/Francois Couturier/Daniel Humair: Tryptic
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Tryptic is an album which has what a lot of what you might call “ECM appeal." Fans of the storied German record label know who they are and know what they like, and will probably like this album, even if it isn't an ECM release.It's not only because the intimate trio setting, recorded at ...
Alula: Anemokory
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Saxophonists Christophe Lehoucq and Philippe Razol formed Alula in 1998 to play compositions by the former; after nearly ten years of toil, Anémokory is their début release. Alula plays well-behaved latter-day fusion, the sound decidedly, but not unpleasantly, seventies retro. (Witness the jangly guitar on “Les 7 marches" or some of the synthesizer ...
Extra Golden: Hera Ma Nono
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Extra Golden Hera Ma Nono Thrill Jockey 2007 The FM-rock supergroup Foreigner chose its name to reflect the mixed nationality of its members, assorted Brits and Yanks. Wherever they were, they said, someone in the band was a foreigner. Presumably the anomie engendered by this situation lent emotional ...
Ben Stepner: Nineteen Pieces for Piano
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
There's a corridor on the second floor of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris with a breathtaking succession of paintings by post-Impressionists like Bonnard, Vuillard and Denis. Less visited and less famous than the paintings by Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, van Gogh and others upstairs, they are nevertheless a highlight, perhaps the outstanding highlight of a visit to ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Sky Blue
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The warmest of accolades have already been heaped upon Maria Schneider's new record, and deservedly so. How, everyone seems to wonder, could Schneider possibly top the Grammy-winning Concert in the Garden (ArtistShare, 2004)? Forget that. How could she possibly top the first four minutes of “The Pretty Road," the track that opens Sky Blue? Somehow, Ingrid ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Live
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Live Ronin Rhythm Records 2006 The critical enthusiasm that greeted Stoa (ECM, 2006), by keyboardist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin band, has encouraged some listeners to look into his back catalogue. It turns out that the Zurich-based musician has been developing the musical project that gave rise to Stoa ...
Kelly Rossum: Line
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Those listeners who know Kelly Rossum only as the self-styled “electrumpet" virtuoso from Electropolis (Innova, 2006), by the Minneapolis group of the same name, will be surprised by Line. In contrast to Electropolis' deep-groove, sci-fi jazz, Rossum's band here offers an entirely acoustic combination of the sounds of those marvelous, piano-less “New Thing" ...
