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Rale Micic: 3
by Joshua Weiner
Rale Micic has emerged over the past few years as one of the most interesting young guitarists on the New York City scene. Beginning with Bridges, a fantastic quintet date from 2003 featuring some exciting saxophone work from Bob Reynolds, and continuing on 2006's Serbia featuring the great Tom Harrell on trumpet, Micic has established a ...
Sherman Irby Quartet: Live At The Otto Club
by Joshua Weiner
Live At The Otto Club is Sherman Irby's first live album with his quartet, and it would be hard to conjure up a more joyful example of seriously swinging jazz that sounds like a great lost classic from the heyday of hard bop. Though the liner notes seem to suggest that this was a bit of ...
Uros Markovic/Gospel Jazz Trio: Jesus Saves
by Joshua Weiner
It's no secret that many roots of the jazz tree burrow deep into the church. There's more than a little gospel influence in the style of innumerable jazz artists, most noticeably in the work of pianists such as, for example, Oscar Peterson and Keith Jarrett. With drummers, perhaps, such traces are harder to discern, but in ...
Sunburned Hand of the Man: Fire Escape
by Joshua Weiner
Sunburned Hand of the Man is a loose collective of experimental musicians, centered around drummer John Moloney and bassist Robert Thomas, who have been hailed as leaders of the “new weird movement. Fire Escape treads the group's usual ground, harkening back to exploratory heavyweights of the 1970s such as Can, Popul Vuh and even the Grateful ...
Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Lovano is an old-school saxophonist, a throwback to the golden age of jazz. While he has, of course, incorporated modern innovations introduced by saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as others into his style, his exuberant playing maintains a direct line through the history of jazz, incorporating swing, bebop, big band, and modal ...
Joanna Newsom: Ys and The Ys Street Band
by Joshua Weiner
Joanna Newsom Ys/The Ys Street Band Drag City 2006/2007 Joanna Newsom is not a jazz singer, to be sure. But neither is she a pop singer, nor simply a folk singer, even one with the back-handedly complimentary “freak sobriquet inserted as a prefix. No, Joanna Newsom is a ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Tenorist
by Joshua Weiner
We all make our choices in life, and perhaps saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi's desire to teach--which has resulted in a position at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston as well as several acclaimed books on improvisation--explains why he does not have the name recognition (and big major label contract) of some other tenors. Judging from ...
Bob Reynolds: Can't Wait For Perfect
by Joshua Weiner
The sheer quality of so much of the music performed by (relatively) unknown up-and-coming musicians is gratifying, for obvious reasons, but it can also be troubling. It is difficult to escape the realization that too many of these musicians will ultimately fail to get the attention they deserve. How nice it is, then, to hear Bob ...
Steve Kuhn Trio: Qui
by Joshua Weiner
Let's be up front about it: I'm not a huge fan of Latin music, including Latin jazz. No offense to the many fine artists or the teeming millions that are into this stuff; I'm just a northern, Arctic Circle kind of guy. Rio bathing beauties are great and all, but, call me crazy, I like Minnesota ...
Miles Davis: Round About Lunchtime: The Complete Columbia Cafeteria Recordings 1955-85
by Joshua Weiner
In its extensive series of boxed sets detailing the genesis of some of Miles Davis' greatest recordings, Columbia/Legacy has produced one of the most impressive bodies of jazz reissues extant. Their latest Miles box, however, suggests that the curators of Columbia's vaults have started to go a bit overboard. Round About Lunchtime: The Complete Miles Davis ...
