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Rick Washbrook: Roncesvalles Tango
by Jerry D'Souza
Rick Washbrook has been playing the guitar for thirty years. Over that time he has acquired and mastered his technique that brings a strong creative bend to his music that enchants in many ways.Washbrook's style comes in the way he uses his right hand. His fingering is unique, aided by the use of the ...
Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales
by Jerry D'Souza
Bobby Sanabria's concept of jazz is freedom. There is no arguing that point of view given the evidence he presents on this recording. Sanabria finds this freedom in many avenues. It comes from his students and it filters through the musicians with whom he has forged relationships over the years. It springs from the bands he ...
Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra: Transmigration
by Jerry D'Souza
Kahil El'Zabar is a man of many inventions. His music has a pure passion that transcends the mundane. He lifts compositions with imagination into realms that are at once startling and captivating. He manifests those traits on this splendid recording where his compositions are zapped into a three-dimensional impact by Ernest Dawkins (alto saxophone and percussion), ...
Barry Romberg's Random Access: Big Giant Head
by Jerry D'Souza
Barry Romberg's Random Access marches on to part six of its musical journey, called Big Giant Head. With all the accolades that have greeted earlier efforts, the size of the head is not surprising. Romberg says that this recording and the previous one, Accidental Beef, (Romhog Records, 2006), involve the most structure the band has had ...
Eberhard Weber: Stages of a Long Journey
by Jerry D'Souza
Eberhard Weber has had a distinguished career as a bassist. He pioneered the use of electronics with the bass, and while that enhanced the dimension and the dynamic, he did not let it obscure the harmony and sensibility of his music. Weber turned 65 in 2005. His birthday was celebrated in Stuttgart with two ...
Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations II
by Jerry D'Souza
Miroslav Vitous is the centrifugal force of Universal Syncopations II. He composed, arranged, directed, produced, engineered and archived the music, which was recorded between November 2004 and April 2005. Vitous uses different combinations to play his music. He moves from a trio to a quintet and, where necessary, has overdubbed orchestral parts or has multi-tracked vocals ...
Avishai Cohen: After The Big Rain
by Jerry D'Souza
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen has had a varied musical career. He toured with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra and then went into a wider spectrum playing jazz, pop and rock. However, it was when he was at Smalls jazz club in New York, that he had the opportunity to interact and expand his musical horizons with Jason ...
Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Mark Soskin has had a long and colorful career. Over the expanse of thirty-plus years he has been in varied settings. He was in the Latin music band Azteca before he went on to a fourteen-year association with Sonny Rollins. He has lived in New York City since 1981, where he continued to mark his ...
Todd Herbert: The Path to Infinity
by Jerry D'Souza
Tenor saxophonist Todd Herbert got his first big break with the Charles Earland Quartet. He was also a member of the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. He moved to New York in 1997, played with Tom Harrell and Jimmy Cobb, and led his own groups. It was a stint with Freddie Hubbard that led to this CD. ...
Bobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by Jerry D'Souza
Bobby Hutcherson says that he always wanted to record an album of ballads and love songs. That dream has been realized with this recording, which he calls his love record. It comes across as more; it is a love-in for the listener as well. Hutcherson is a player who makes every note count, whose every touch ...
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