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Simon Lasky Group: About The Moment
by Geno Thackara
Which moment could this title be referring to? There's no shortage of beautifully striking ones scattered throughout the Simon Lasky Group's second outing: dynamic lifts and swells, chord changes that step through sophisticated sequences as smoothly as descending stairs, little heads or melody lines that pack a special hit because they're placed at just the right ...
Shambhu: Soothing Guitar for Stressful Times
by Jakob Baekgaard
The times we live in call for reflection and one of the ways of providing it is through music. Music can slow our lives down and make us live in the moment, but it can also connect people. Since he discovered music, guitarist and composer Shambhu Neil Vineberg has been on a journey that has seen ...
Deep Energy Orchestra: Playing with Fire
by Chris M. Slawecki
Deep Energy Orchestra is unique in its musical repertoire, approach, and style, all of which burn light and heat into their first live recording Playing with Fire. DEO's lead voice comes equally from progressive guitar pot-stirrer and King Crimson mainstay Trey Gunn; Carnatic percussionist V. Selvaganish, a member of John McLaughlin's transcendent group Remember Shakti; electric ...
Tommy Halferty & Norma Winstone: Tommy Halferty Invites Norma Winstone
by Ian Patterson
Though the collaboration between Irish guitarist Tommy Halferty and English singer Norma Winstone goes back twenty five years, this, surprisingly, is the duo's debut recording. That it came about at all is thanks to the lever pulling of Irish jazz impresario Allen Smith, who first brought Winstone across the pond in the early 1990s. Winstone and ...
Zhenya Strigalev and Federico Dannemann: The Change
by Roger Farbey
Zhenya Strigalev and Federico Danneman previously recorded together on Strigalev's Blues For Maggie (Whirlwind, 2018), but with the possible exception of that album's penultimate track ,"Little Struggle," the fare offered there differed a little from what's on offer here. The Change unequivocally oozes rock-infused take-no-prisoners jazz. Perhaps the nearest comparison to this band, and this is ...
Big Bands, Orchestras and Soft Machines
by Chris M. Slawecki
Randy Brecker & NDR Bigband Rocks Piloo Records & Productions LLC 2019 The easiest answer isn't always the best answer, but sometimes it is. So it's both easy and proper to point out that trumpet and flugelhorn master, composer, and bandleader Randy Brecker was kind enough ...
Paul Wertico Tours With Award-Winning Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko
In late May 2019 All Stars rocked thousands of concert goers at the Skolkovo Startup Village open-air show in Moscow, Russia and at one of the largest guitar festivals in Europe—the World of Guitar in Kaluga. The international jazz-fusion project All Stars feature world-class virtuosos: 7-time Grammy winner, one of the most versatile and musical drummers ...
Take Five with Tihomir Stojiljkovic
by AAJ Staff
About Tihomir Stojiljkovic Jazz pianist/composer Tihomir Stojiljkovic was born in Leskovac, Serbia. In his debut album Solo we discover the treasures of Balkan musical heritage, tastefully reinvented through the language of modern jazz. At the age of six, Tihomir started playing mostly traditional music on the accordion. By the age of sixteen, ...
Partisans: Nit De Nit
by Roger Farbey
Definitely not to be confused with the Welsh punk rock group of the same name (albeit with the added definite article in the title), Partisans have been around for well over two decades. Their debut album Partisans was released jointly under Julian Siegel and Phil Robson's names on the EFZ label in 1997. Since then, as ...
Etienne Mbappe: Silky Master of the 4th Dimension
by Alan Bryson
Etienne Mbappe plays bass so smoothly that you could imagine he wears silk gloves—and you would be correct. In fact he is the only musician in the world who has an endorsement deal with a silk glove manufacturer. He is a musician's musician, a world class bassist based in Paris. Originally from Cameroon in Western Africa, ...
