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Judi Silvano: Let Yourself Go
by Jerry D'Souza
Guess it was about time. This is Judi Silvano's first album of standards, and if it need be said, these are the songs her mother loves. Well, mother Miriam has good taste and daughter Judi has the voice to give them a rich, red-blooded vein. Silvano is also blessed in having a top notch band and ...
Continenza, Juris, Di Piazza, Iodice: Seven Steps To Heaven
by Jerry D'Souza
Quite obviously, Giuseppe Continenza loves the guitar. His first recording, Journey, was a guitar duo with Vic Juris. He has Juris in tow on the current album and will feature him once more, along with Birelli Lagrene, on his next. Guess that's nothing to complain about, judging by what happens here. The music consists ...
Scott Fields Ensemble: Christangelfox
by Jerry D'Souza
Three musicians gather to make music. Each plays an instrument and percussion that comes in a set of four. Their percussion comprises scrap metal, stone, and wood, all of which float on foam slabs. They begin and then go on for the next hour playing the composition of Scott Fields. The music on Christangelfox ...
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.): Seven Days of Falling
by Jerry D'Souza
The Esbjörn Svensson Trio, or e.s.t. as it prefers to be known these days, brings luminosity to the art of the piano trio on this, its eighth recording. Credit these three players with a strong sense of musicality and the ability to go past the obvious and build layer upon layer of enticing sonority. The arrangements ...
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision
by Jerry D'Souza
Man and machine manipulate music. Man thinks and machine obeys. That's the way it has been with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since the group banded together in 1992. Sound and signal processors, as well as computers, are fed by the imagination of the players. Technology swallows the impulse and pours it out. What happens at ...
Rick Peckham Trio: Left End
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist Rick Peckham has played as a sideman on several albums, bringing his personal signature to the music. On this, his debut as leader, he elevates that presence, aided by two fine musicians in Jim Black and Tony Scherr. Peckham is fine tuned into jazz, as evidenced by his cover of the Thelonious Monk ...
Michael Musillami Octet: Spirits
by Jerry D'Souza
It was a good day when guitarist Michael Musillami and his band of seven went in to record songs by Thomas Chapin. Musillami, Peter Madsen and Michael Sarin shared a close familiarity with Chapin and his music, having played with him. The others came into the fit on Musillami's vision, which as the end results prove, ...
Carlos Bechegas/Peter Kowald: Open Secrets
by Jerry D'Souza
Carlos Bechegas and Peter Kowald, who passed away in '02, were a good team. As thinkers and purveyors of improvised music, they created a waft of arresting ideas. Kowald, a giant among bassists, was a riveting presence who turned the bass into a loquacious voice that fed on his intuitive brilliance. Bechegas would take advantage of ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by Jerry D'Souza
Carla Bley is interesting and witty in relating the experiences of the band on their first European tour in the liner notes to this new release. The pictures are great too, and if one wants to get deeper into the whole experience, just log on to the Watt web site and have dollops of fun! It ...
Mario Pavone: Boom
by Jerry D'Souza
Mario Pavone brings in a stripped down version of the band he has worked with in the recent past for Boom. He couldn't have done better than choose these three players. They chip in and put all the pieces together so compactly that it would be hard to imagine any other band reaching in and reacting ...
