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Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival 2005
by Jerry D'Souza
Another year. Another festival. After nineteen years the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, having made the transition from the du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival to the TD Canada Trust Downtown Festival, continues to be a pale version of what it once was. No longer does it tantalise as it once did; the marquee names may draw ...
Graham Collier: Workpoints
by Jerry D'Souza
Graham Collier's emergence in the sixties heralded the presence of a jazz musician with a fertile and unbridled imagination. His voice was adventurous and provoking, and it helped underline the fact that jazz in Britain was setting a tone of its own. When the Arts Council of Britain commissioned its first work for jazz, the honour ...
Ray Marchica: In The Ring
by Jerry D'Souza
Ray Marchica has lived a busy life as drummer. He was on the Rosie O'Donnell Show over its six-year stay on television and sat in the drummer's chair for a host of productions on Broadway. He was also in Woody Allen's Radio Days. Good going certainly, there's nothing like keeping the pulse ticking in more ways ...
Blind Boys of Alabama: Go Tell It On The Mountain
by Jerry D'Souza
The Blind Boys of AlabamaGo Tell It On The Mountain: Live in New YorkEagle Rock Entertainment2005 The Blind Boys of Alabama were formed in 1939. Over the years they have made an indelible impression with their music, gospel in the traditional spirit which in the last decade assimilated contemporary style ...
Insout: Acoustic Privacy
by Jerry D'Souza
Take an ophthalmologist called Claudio Allia. Team him with a sound engineer who goes by the name of Riccardo Samperi. Add some red wine and zen. The setup is complete for the duo (of men) who go as Insout to compose and record, starting with their first effort, Trikke & Trakke. On their second ...
Michael Galasso: High Lines
by Jerry D'Souza
Making records is a secondary occupation for Michael Galasso. There is a gap of twenty years between his two albums for ECM, but that's not to say that he was languishing in vacuity. Far from it. Galasso was making his imprint in movies through composing, including the score for the acclaimed In The Mood For Love, ...
Eric Comstock: No One Knows
by Jerry D'Souza
Eric Comstock's third album finds the pianist/vocalist moving deeper into jazz territory with a stellar cast of jazz musicians. The move certainly works; while the band serves in top-notch fashion, Comstock makes it all the more relevant with his ability to phrase and enunciate these pieces the way jazz song should be treated. Stylistic touches apart, ...
Florian Ross Quintet: Home & Some Other Place
by Jerry D'Souza
If one overwhelming quality leaps out of the music of Florian Ross, it is his skill as a composer. He has a finely attuned sense for narrative and his pieces are rich in harmonic detail. Most of his music flows with a calm resplendence, yet he can pump up the pulse and get into a harder ...
John Surman: Way Back When
by Jerry D'Souza
Britain in the sixties was a musical maelstrom. Pop music was witnessing some exciting changes, and so was jazz. While American musicians were influential during this period, a large number of British musicians were beginning to cast their own voices and give the music new extensions in ideas and approaches. John Surman was one of them.
The Contemporary Jazz Quintet: Actions 1966-67
by Jerry D'Souza
One of the notable aspects of Atavistic's Unheard Music Series is the wealth of material it keeps unearthing from the vaults. Time does not seem to efface this music; instead, it stamps the indelibility of the compositions. So it is with the material here, which was recorded almost forty years ago. The core of ...
