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The Mike Murley Quintet: Extra Time
by Jerry D'Souza
The Mike Murley Quintet has been together for over ten years, and this is its fourth release as a group. Murley leads some of the finest musicians anywhere, and they are all Canadian. Their music is outstanding too, which makes any release worth salivating for. It is a moot point to say that each outing finds ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Concert in the Garden
by Jerry D'Souza
Maria Schneider's first three recordings have been admirable, due not only to her insight as a composer and her skills as an arranger, but also to the musicians that make up her orchestra. It is they who are the architects of her plan, and they get fully involved, giving the final edifice a rich presence and ...
Tricycle: Emerge and See
by Jerry D'Souza
The first question may well be this: what's the banjo doing in a jazz context? And if that did not cross your mind, it does not matter. What Tricycle has done is to expand, and expound, music that is grounded in bluegrass and country into a larger framework that incorporates the harmonics of jazz and the ...
Edward Ratliff: Barcelona in 48 Hours
by Jerry D'Souza
Music written for a film does not always stand up on its own. This is one of the exceptions, an enticing body of work that accompanied the short of the same name; a film about movement that was comprised almost entirely of black and white photographs. Ratliff composed or co-composed all the tunes. He ...
Anatrofobia: Tesa Musica Marginale
by Jerry D'Souza
When Anatrofobia banded in 1990, these players set out to play what they describe as “angry crossover." Four years later the entrance of bassist Luco Cartolari turned their concentration towards a greater degree of improvisation. By the time '99 came along they were off in yet another direction: pop music. Anatrofobia mixes all the ...
Liam Noble Group: In The Meantime
by Jerry D'Souza
Liam Noble studied music at Oxford University, and after his postgraduate course at the Guildhall, he became the pianist for Stan Sulzmann. Noble was recommended by John Taylor, who had played with Sulzmann, who had played with Kenny Wheeler, who had played with Taylor. Noble then went on to join forces with Wheeler as well as ...
James Finn: Opening the Gates
by Jerry D'Souza
It was to be the perfect setup even though they did not know it at the time. James Finn, Whit Dickey and Dominic Duval recorded some tracks in Finn's house that grew out of the moment's inspiration. Duval, who has recorded for Cadence, suggested that Finn send the music there. Cadence wanted more, and so this ...
Francois Carrier: Travelling Lights
by Jerry D'Souza
Dream teams do not necessarily turn out to be worthy of high expectations. If there is no empathy and the players do not feel that invisible electric impulse, all can be lost. But that is not the case here. Michel Lambert has been the drummer of choice for Fran'ois Carrier and there is a ...
Satoko Fujii: Sketches
by Jerry D'Souza
On her first solo record in eight years, Satoko Fujii gives free rein to her impulses. Her approaches are many and she constructs each piece with careful articulation. Her thoughts may run rampant or flow in placid ripple, but there is no denying that she brings in a strong technique that creates some magnetic moments.
Yo Miles!: Sky Garden
by Jerry D'Souza
In paying tribute one must go beyond the obvious. Yo Miles! succeeds in doing so on the second release that tips the group's collective hat in the direction of Miles Davis. It would have been simplistic to let a tribute to Davis lie in the wake of his music. Yo Miles! has gone beyond the fundamental ...
