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Scott Reeves Quintet: Shape Shifter
by Dan McClenaghan
Scott Reeves' Shape Shifter could be called a standard live mainstream affair in that the tunes are, in part, vehicles for some stretching out by the soloists. But the sound slips out of the “standard" description, with its atmosphere of adventure and edgy energy, and an approach that more than hints at the avant-garde, in a ...
JD Walter: Live in Portugal
by Victor L. Schermer
J.D. Walter Live In Portugal JWAL Records 2008 J.D. Walter may be the most avant-garde vocalist in jazz today. He uses a broad range of musical and linguistic approaches to create haunting atmospheres, rapid scat runs, and emotionally engaging interpretations of both standards and his own compositions. On ...
Jim Ridl: Your Cheatin' Heart and Other Works
by George Kanzler
Jim Ridl, who's been with Pat Martino's bands for years, deserves to be better known. Not only is he a personal, forceful pianist, he's also a first-rate composer and arranger who knows how to put together a band and how to make thoroughly engaging albums like this one. Country songs like Hank Williams' title opus and ...
Your Cheatin' Heart and Other Works
By Jim Ridl
Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Your Cheatin
Jim Ridl Quintet at the Deerhead Inn
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Quintet Deerhead Inn Delaware Water Gap, PA September 3, 2005 Pianist Jim Ridl's new CD, Your Cheatin' Heart, is a jazz take on some country and western classics along with some standards and original compositions. It is rich with novel ideas and textures and is bound to attract ...
Jim Ridl: Your Cheatin' Heart
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Your Cheatin' Heart Dreambox Media DMJ-1080 2005In addition to being a highly skilled and accomplished jazz pianist, Jim Ridl is a creative and resourceful musician, composer, and arranger who draws on a rich legacy of musical and personal resources to develop a wide range of musical ...
Jim Ridl Performs Dave Brubeck's "Hold Fast to Dreams"
by Victor L. Schermer
The Jim Ridl Jazz Quartet Performing Dave Brubeck's “Hold Fast to Dreams" Set to the poems of Langston Hughes Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton Saturday, February 12, 2005 Sometimes we need to be reminded who we are and what's important in life. The essentials are easily forgotten in the ...
Jim Ridl: Door Openings
by Victor L. Schermer
Pianist Jim Ridl is emerging as an innovative force in jazz, a pianist of the highest caliber, a creative composer and improviser, and one of those rare musicians who stretches the art form even as he honors the established traditions. Technically and improvisationally formidable in performance and recordings, he is equally comfortable with his own groups ...
Jim Ridl: Door in a Field
by Joshua Weiner
"Concept" albums are commonplace in jazz these days, and some artists seem to release nothing but. On the best of these, the idea behind the record adds depth and cohesion to the music within, but too often we end up with weak conceits masking lack of invention (think about all the “. . .plays Jobim", or ...
