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Paul Dunmall Moksha Big Band: I Wish You Peace
by Jerry D'Souza
When Paul Dunmall turned fifty in 2003, the BBC stepped in with the gift of a recording with his big band. Dunmall takes his bandmates from Mujician, Keith Tippett, Tony Levin, and Paul Rogers, and he expands the rhythm section and the front line. The result is an exhilarating album that gets its adrenaline from the ...
Onaje Allan Gumbs: Remember Their Innocence
by Jerry D'Souza
Onaje Allan Gumbs took his wide experiences as a musician into the studio for his latest recording and came up with a winning combination in Remember Their Innocence. There is strong testimony to his passion for jazz, just as there is for the blues, some soul, a Brazilian tune, and a bit of what is known ...
The Revolutionary Ensemble: And Now ...
by Jerry D'Souza
The recordings the Revolutionary Music Ensemble made in the '70s were adventurous and daring. Having stamped their credentials, the members of the group went their separate ways before that decade came to a close and pursued individual careers. Now, more than twenty years after their groundbreaking recording of The People's Republic, they stir the waters once ...
Avery Sharpe Trio: Dragon Fly
by Jerry D'Souza
Avery Sharpe is probably best known as the bassist in the McCoy Tyner trio. But he should be known as a remarkable leader and composer with some notable releases to his credit. If that latter trait has been overlooked to an extent, now is the time to stop and pay attention. Sharpe's new trio recording is ...
Geoff Young Trio: In Between
by Jerry D'Souza
From the time the first notes ring out on In Between, Geoff Young makes manifest his cogent sense of space and time. This attribute stands him well as he creates dazzling sonic portraits playing acoustic guitar, his fingers the messengers of his eloquence. Helping him colour the canvas of his imagination are bassist Jim Vivian and ...
Jim Cifelli: Groove Station
by Jerry D'Souza
After three nonet albums, Jim Cifelli has moved away from his “little big band" in order to get into another groove. He does this on Groove Station with a septet, a change of instrumentation, and a clear idea of the direction he is headed. That direction is funk, and while the grooves reverberate with the pulse, ...
Kakalla: The Seeds of Analog Rebellion
by Jerry D'Souza
Mixing ingredients in a cauldron and coming up with the appetizing can yield a work of art. Thomson Kneeland, the leader and bassist of Kakalla, succeeds admirably in bringing together chamber music, European music, and a bit of rock with a compact jazz sensibility into a remarkable whole that at once grabs attention and draws the ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
by Jerry D'Souza
Cecil Taylor Unit One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye Hatology 2004 (1978) It seems to me that what music is, is everything that you do. Those words from pianist Cecil Taylor, in the documentary Imagine The Sound , are a pointer to his craft. A little ...
Al Di Meola: Live at Montreux 1986/1993
by Jerry D'Souza
Al Di Meola Live at Montreux 1986/1993 Eagle Eye Media 2004 Al Di Meola has been a contrast in terms of music. He has taken his guitar into various streams with different levels of success. His playing has been marked with a gentle lyrical air just as it has been ...
Sfq: Four Compositions
by Jerry D'Souza
Composition and structure, improvisation and the use of space, time gathered and broken down, music notated and musicians given the leeway to go beyond. Simon H. Fell makes use of these and other concepts like the works of Pierre Boulez. From this amalgam rises his music, often with a slow deliberation, at times with emphasis, at ...
