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Take Five With Vinson Valega
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...
Ernesto Cervini Quartet: Little Black Bird
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ernesto Cervini has produced a gem of a record to closeout 2009. The music on Little Black Bird reveals the promise of a sophisticated intellect that is serious and funny, inventive, childlike and mature at once. Most of all, Cervini is unafraid of filling a blank musical canvas with waves of unusual harmonic color. He shows ...
Tobias Gebb & Unit 7: free at last
by Dan Bilawsky
New York-based drummer Tobias Gebb assembled a stellar cast for free at last. The format of Unit 7 follows the instrumentation tradition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The three-horn frontline and three-man rhythm section allows this group to sound bigger than it is at times, while also having the flexibility to make things more intimate. Gebb ...
Joel Frahm - Bruce Katz: Project A
by AAJ Italy Staff
Soul che scalda, blues che incendia, funky che scalcia. E poi, a sprazzi, c'è il jazz. Jazz che affonda. Project A, dove “A" sta per Aretha Franklin, è un album che si appiccica addosso a chi lo scolta perché ripercorre da cima a fondo la black music che più ci piace. Il sassofono di Joel Frahm ...
Amy Cervini: Lovefool
by Andrew Velez
For this recording songbird Amy Cervini drops ever so lightly upon songs on the theme of love. The sources are as varied as Jack Johnson and Depeche Mode, covering a broad spectrum of genres, styles and periods. The opener, “Bye-Bye Country Boy," recalls a sophisticate's brief pastoral dalliance. It's a tune that others are rediscovering now ...
Project A
By Joel Frahm
Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: The House That Jack Built; Love The One You're With; Don't Play That
Song; Spirit In The Dark; It Ain't Fair; Maybe I'm A Fool; What A Friend
We Have In Jesus; Rock Steady; Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go.
Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation
by Wayne Zade
Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...
Let's Party: Anthony Wilson Trio, Joel Frahm & Bruce Katz, James Carter et al.
by J Hunter
Just because summer is long gone doesn't mean the other three seasons have to be a marathon of dreariness. The calendar's got plenty of reasons to party--Christmas, New Year's Eve, or (for college students) the odd Tuesday that needs freshening up. It's only logical that parties need party music, so here are three “musical guests," all ...
Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz: Project A
by Marcia Hillman
Tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm has teamed up with pianist/organist Bruce Katz for Project A, a tribute to Aretha Franklin and containing material with which she is associated. Although Frahm's foundation is jazz, there is a soul-filled side of him that enjoys working with the likes of Katz, renowned for his work with the Allman Brothers Band. ...
David Ashkenazy: Out With It
by Woodrow Wilkins
Some music defies description. In the case of drummer David Ashkenazy's Out With It, words can hardly do justice to the varied moods and sounds of this eight-song set. Ashkenazy studied piano and guitar at age nine and later learned to play the drums. His varied musical tastes include reggae, blues, rock, bluegrass, and ...
