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Octobop: Very Early
by C. Michael Bailey
What's cool about Octobop, besides the band's clever name and conception, is the beautifully retro nature of its music. An octet is the middle child, in between a small combo and a big band. Smaller groups have long been a favorite format of arrangers and Very Early is very much an arranger's collection. ...
Glen Helgeson: Distant Borders Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan
Minneapolis-based guitarist Glen Helgeson is a musical world traveler. His Axis Mundi group delves into Middle Eastern, Afro-Cuban and Haitian sounds, and his Gypsy Mania Quartet gets deep in the music of Django Reinhardt. With Distant Borders Revisited he brings members of both groups, and more, into the studio for an even wider-ranging journey.A ...
Janine Gilbert-Carter: A Song For You: Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz can only endure so many vocal performances that take the art to some interesting and even ground-breaking outer reaches before things must correct themselves with a release or two that are straight down the middle, reminding us how we got there to begin with. Janine Gilbert-Carter fills the bill with a no-nonsense recital of standards ...
Tangria Jazz Kick's off Father's Day Celebration at Vignette
Appearing At: Vignette Restaurant (inside the Orchard Hotel) REQUESTING ARTIST PREVIEW/CD REVIEW/LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEW In National Campaign for: Tangria Jazz - Mebane's Eleven Drummer, Sheryl Mebane, a San Francisco artist draws from her inner spirit and the sights, sounds and experiences of a seasoned composer and performer. As the leader of Tangria ...
Jose Duque's Zumbatres: Far Away
by Michael P. Gladstone
Venezuelan-born, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based drummer/percussionist Jose Duque leads Zumbatres, a band that doesn't read like a Latin jazz band (and certainly not one from south of the border), for his second album, Far Away , but indeed they sound like one. There is some talk in the liners about the blending of borders insofar as crossing ...
Jeff Alkire: One Summer In Winters
by Michael P. Gladstone
Were one to accept the background notes on altoist/composer Jeff Alkire's One Summer In Winters, it would be reasonable to expect a Paul Winter-type album, in which the music is tailored to bring out the purity of communicating with the wildlife animals that frequent Alikre's northern California property. The altoist intended to “send something beautiful back ...
Elisabeth Lohninger: The Only Way Out Is Up
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is an ambitious second album from Austrian-born, New York-based jazz vocalist Elisabeth Lohninger. With a background in both classical music and jazz, Lohninger sings fluently in three languages and, in addition to her 2004 debut album, has written original film scores as well as music for television. Her partnership with pianist Walter Fischbacher as the ...
John Cipolla and Doc Livingston: Misbehavin
by C. Michael Bailey
Listeners entertained by the Buddy DeFranco/Dave McKenna Concord recordings, You Must Believe in Swing (1997) and Do Nothing Till You Hear From Us! (1999), will be delighted with John Cipolla and Doc Livingston's Misbehavin'. Cipolla is the erstwhile leader on this duet recital with pianist/clarinetist Doc Livingston at Bowling Green's Western Kentucky University, where Cipolla is ...
Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night
by Michael P. Gladstone
File under: “What I did in my senior year". As a senior at VCU (Virginia Commonweath University), twenty-one year-old Samson Trinh completed this album for which he wrote all but one of the tunes and hired some of the best musicians from the Richmond, Virginian area, including members of his own Upper East Side Big Band. ...
Paul Carr Climbs the Charts and Lands At #32
Paul Carr's Just Noodlin' Climbs the chart on Jazzweek and lands at #32 One of the finest horn players in the DC metropolitan area, saxophonist Paul Carr is breaking through the sea of releases as he climbs the chart at Jazzweek and lands at the #32 spot for the week of March 23, 2007. This is ...
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