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Toufic Farroukh: Tootya
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
On its own terms, Lebanese saxophonist Toufic Farroukh's Tootya is largely a success. What it seeks to be is a sophisticated--and at times pretentious--mash-up of Arabic popular and light-classical music with techno beats, Western pop, and a little Latin jazz, presumably targeted at upper middle class listeners in the Middle East and their brothers and sisters ...
Camisetas: Camisetas
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Camisetas, the album and the band, came about during a week-long residence at the Théâtre Pole Sud in Strasbourg, France, in September 2006. The resulting disc is very much a group improvisation, drawing upon the musical resources the players bring to the enterprise.As such, your response to this record will be a function of ...
Rockingchair: Rockingchair
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The quirky and visionary Dogs of Great Indifference (Winter & Winter, 2006), by Jim Black's AlasNoAxis group, is among the most critically praised jazz records of recent years. But has this critical acclaim been matched by creative influence?Apparently, the answer is yes, and what's more, it turns out that Jim Black's musical ...
Alex Terrier Quintet: Stop Requested
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Saxophonist George Garzone has high praise for his protégé Alex Terrier, and indeed the young saxophonist exhibits many of the same qualities associated with his one-time teacher: a compelling logic in the construction of his long solos accompanied by a ready recourse to the outer reaches of the vocabulary that both players have inherited ...
Orchestre National de Jazz: Electrique
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In the wake of the magnificent Close to Heaven (Le Chant du Monde, 2006), the French national jazz orchestra's tribute to the Led Zeppelin songbook, musical director Franck Tortiller found himself attracted to the early 1970s plugged-in jazz-rock fusion of the Headhunters, Weather Report and Lifetime. The result is Electrique. That's his story, anyway, and it's ...
Blurring Boundaries: Mauritanian Blues & The Music Of A Continent
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Where does Africa begin and where does it end? Geographically, I mean. Oftentimes, when people say “Africa," they mean “Africa south of the Sahara." That may be a useful shorthand in many contexts, but in musical terms, the Sahara desert has been a very permeable border and it makes more sense to talk about ...
Anthony Ortega: Afternoon In Paris
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The quixotic enthusiasm of Hatology Records' chief Werner X. Uehlinger for the idiosyncratic music of one- time Lionel Hampton sideman Anthony Ortega continues with this release of a series of solo performances and saxophone-bass duets recorded in 2002 and 2005. The link to Ortega's quiet classic in the sax-bass vein, New Dance (Hatology, 1966), is made ...
Frederic Loiseau Meets Carlton Schroeder: Red Shoes
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In a recent AAJ interview, pianist Guillaume de Chassy called guitarist Frédéric Loiseau the “French Jim Hall." Without belaboring the comparison, the piano- guitar duets on Red Shoes are less the French version of Hall's recent, excellent duets with Geoff Keezer on Free Association (Artist Share, 2006) than the Gallic equivalent of Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1962), ...
Eugene Lee: Srivbanacore
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Srivbanacore is the début record from twenty-five-year-old Framingham, Mass.-based saxophonist Eugene Lee, and the first release from the Pure Potentiality label. Fans of the free will want to lend an interested ear.The record is more or less split between three tracks that feature the lower range of the alto instrument ("Voices," the title track, ...
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner Ojos Negros ECM Records 2007 As of this writing, Ojos Negros, the new album of duets by bandoneón master Dino Saluzzi and classical cellist Anja Lechner, has been the subject of four glowing reviews at AAJ. Add to those Steve Lake's excellent liner notes and ...
