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Patti Austin at The Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Patti Austin The Carver Community Cultural Center Jo Long Theatre San Antonio, TX October 12, 2024 Between appearances on the West Coast--accepting a lifetime achievement award from SF Jazz in San Francisco, exemplifying jazz excellence at the Jazz Excellence (JEXA) gala in LA--Patti Austin came through San Antonio to open ...
Marcos Valle: Túnel Acústico
by Katchie Cartwright
In Túnel Acústico (Acoustic Tunnel), Marcos Valle digs back into the late 1970s, when Brazil was under military rule and he was living in California, working with the likes of Sarah Vaughan and such fellow Brazilian expats as Eumir Deodato and Airto Moreira. Valle grew up in Rio de Janeiro, part of a second generation of ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible
by Katchie Cartwright
Brad Shepik's Human Activity: Dream of the Possible, featuring Layale Chaker (violin), Amino Belyamani (piano), Sam Minaie (bass) and John Hadfield (drums), is the guitarist and multi-instrumentalist's second album to respond to climate change. Composed as a single 10-movement work, a “narrative of hope," it follows his Human Activity Suite: Sounding a Response to Climate Change ...
Douglas Lora: Um Novo Caminho
by Katchie Cartwright
Double trajectory Award-winning seven-string guitarist Douglas Lora has long had two solid sides to his career, the popular and the classical, the improvisatory and the written. Jazz fans may know him from his recordings with Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro--featuring Dudu Maia on bandolim and Alexandre Lora on pandeiro--which highlight the improvisational prowess and empathy of ...
Ada Rovatti: The Hidden World Of Piloo
by Katchie Cartwright
Ada Rovatti's curiously titled album, The Hidden World of Piloo, has a tale attached (and a tail). Piloo is an affectionate name Rovatti's father has called her since childhood, after a “naughty" cat in a favorite children's book. She adopted it for her label as well (Piloo Records). Rovatti grew up in Mortara, Italy, outside of ...
Elling, McLorin Salvant and Fortner: A Wish (Valentine)
by Katchie Cartwright
On a fragrant waft as summer draws to a close, Kurt Elling, Sullivan Fortner and Cécile McLorin Salvant tender this exquisite reading of Fred Hersch and Norma Winstone's “A Wish (Valentine)," from Wildflowers, Vol. 1 (Edition Records, 2024). Conceived, recorded and released in one week during the dog days of August, the album is a lovely ...
Dani Gurgel: Paulista Polymath
by Katchie Cartwright
Dani Gurgel is an acclaimed artist with a restless creative spirit. Born into a musical family in São Paulo, she took up music at age four and kept on going. Her mother, an accomplished pianist and arranger, and father, an amateur saxophonist, met while playing in a big band. She began studying photography in ...
Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab
by Katchie Cartwright
Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting ...
Nancy Reed & Spencer Reed: Happying
by Katchie Cartwright
The jazz world encompasses a multitude of local communities. Jazz came to Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania via the inns and summer resorts for which the region has been known since the second decade of the 19th century, attracting New Yorkers and Philadelphians seeking summer refuge and fresh woodland air. By ...
Samara Joy at The Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Samara Joy The Carver Community Cultural Center Jo Long Theatre San Antonio, Texas June 1, 2024 Samara Joy, 24, describes herself as a rookie despite her numerous awards, including three Grammys and the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, not to mention her acclaimed recordings as a leader, all ...
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