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Luis Mario Ochoa Quintet: Momentos Cubanos
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist/vocalist Luis Mario Ochoa showcases his new acoustic quintet on his fourth recording. It's a departure from Cimarron, the nine-piece ensemble he calls a Cuban dance band with a jazz sound. Ochoa continues to find the groove as a composer and arranger as he mines Cuban and Peruvian music with all their attributes for thoroughly enjoyable ...
Andy Middleton: The European Quartet Live
by Jerry D'Souza
Andy Middleton is an intense saxophonist. He focuses on the core of the melody and then extrapolates it through its musicality and in the freer inventions of his imagination. Middleton who now lives in Vienna, has picked a new working band. They help forge interesting vignettes, with pianist Tino Derado bringing in his own tasteful expressions ...
A Tribute to Edith Piaf: Live at Montreux 2004
by Jerry D'Souza
Various Artists A Tribute to Edith Piaf: Live at Montreux 2004 Eagle Rock Entertainment 2007 The songs associated with Edith Piaf were celebrated at the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival in 2004, performed with heart-rending emotion. Like Billie Holiday's music, Piaf's songs reflected the joys and sorrows of life, bringing deep ...
Inside Out In The Open: A Film by Alan Roth
by Jerry D'Souza
Joseph Jarman, Marion Brown, John Tchicai, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, and others.Inside Out In The Open ESP Disk 2001/2008 Free jazz is probably a term more bandied about than understood. It means different things to different people, taking cognizance in the eye of the beholder. With Inside Out ...
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
by Jerry D'Souza
Benny Carter Symphony in Riffs Rhapsody Films 2008 Benny Carter was a man of many parts. He played the trumpet and saxophone, he scored music for films and television, he was an educator, and he was an arranger in a class of his own. Carter was born in ...
Non-Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani/Trio Live in Stuttgart
by Jerry D'Souza
Michel Petrucciani Non-Stop Travels/Trio Live in Stuttgart Dreyfus Records 2008 Michel Petrucciani celebrated life. It was a short one (he died when he was 36 of a pulmonary infection), but he lived it to the brim. Jazz was his passion, which he shared through his numerous recordings and ...
Paul Bley Trio: Closer
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Paul Bley is an innovator whose imagination eclipses the norm. He never wavers from a challenge and there is always an air of expectancy each time Bley sits at the piano. He is comfortable in any setting and his music has been shaped by several peers. Among them were Sonny Rollins, Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, ...
An Upper West Side Story: Tobias Gebb & Trio West
by Jerry D'Souza
After an acclaimed and successful outing with their debut CD Trio West Plays Holiday Songs (Yummy House Records, 2006), Trio West is back with An Upper Westside Story, a recording that should bring them up front and center once again. Tobias Gebb (drummer, composer, arranger) has a knack for stimulating the progression of through-composed pieces with ...
Sumi Tonooka Trio: Long Ago Today
by Jerry D'Souza
Circumstance is not always kind, decreeing course and matter. In the case of pianist Sumi Tonooka, circumstance dictated that she wait for ten years before she had the opportunity to record as a leader. The last time she did so was in 1999 on Secret Places, released on Kenny Barron's label, Joken Records. Tonooka ...
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: Eclipse at Dawn
by Jerry D'Souza
The advent of a recording from the Brotherhood of Breath is a time of eager anticipation. The band was always inventive, their music challenging. They rode the winds of free jazz, added the flavor of dance music and enticed with the beat of the kwela. They bring all these elements together once more on this live ...
