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Allen Carter Big Band / Lucerne Jazz Orchestra / Joris Teepe Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Allen Carter Big BandGiftsAC Muzik2010 If there were any integrity or enlightenment in the music business as we know it in 2010--not to mention among listeners--drummer Allen Carter's debut big-band album, Gifts, would surely go platinum or at least earn a well-deserved Grammy Award. As not much of ...
Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC
by Marcia Hillman
New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...
Rain Bather
Label: ArtsForge
Released: 2009
Track listing: I Wanna Fly #1; Cliff's Edge #2; Must Go Back #3; Lightning Strikes #4; Caught in the
Current #5; Windowshade #6; Secret of Life #7; Seven Buttons On a Nehru Jacket #8;
Waltzing Night Into Day #9; Acid Hopping #10; Finding No Path #11; River Runs
Through Me #12; Last Song On Vaudeville #13.
NEC's Ruby Celebration
By Timothy J. O'Keefe Boston's South End was once home to a thriving jazz community. Places like the Hi-Hat, the Savoy, and the Local 535 lined the intersections of Mass Ave. and Columbus Ave. Wally's Cafe is the lone remnant of this nearly forgotten era. The sounds of jazz aren't quite dead in this community--they just ...
The New Mellow Edwards: Big Choantza
by Troy Collins
The New Mellow Edwards, an eclectic ensemble signed to artist-run, Brooklyn-based Skirl Records, is led by trombonist Curtis Hasslebring, who draws upon a variety of influences for his unorthodox jazz compositions, including neo-classical formalism, elastic funk and tuneful indie rock. One of Hasselbring's numerous side-projects, The New Mellow Edwards' impressive pedigree features clarinetist/tenor saxophonist ...
Indigenous Technology
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Introduction
2. Mode for Max
3. Slide
4. Shades of Bronze
5. Desert Places
6. Indigenous Technology
7. See Through You
8. Looking East
9. Invisible Choir
10. Translucency
11. Interlude
12. Mbira
13. Blink
Ken Schaphorst: Indigenous Technology
by Russell Moon
Ken Schaphorst is associated with big band albums, the best known and best distributed, I suspect, being Purple (Naxos, 1998). With Indigenous Technology Schaphorst takes a new look on the jazz trio. Schaphorst plays trumpet, flugelhorn or piano on the record alongside cellist Matt Turner and marimba/percussion player Dane Richeson. There is no drummer here. It ...
Ken Schaphorst: Purple
by Mark Corroto
As a jazz fan who’s listening preferences tend toward small group recordings, I find big band recordings, by definition tend to be, well...BIG. Most large ensembles, like ocean liners, have trouble maneuvering, their sounds tend to be crowded and loud. By the time Leonardo screams “iceberg” it’s too late, the record is sunk. Maybe that’s why ...
Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Purple
by Jack Bowers
Unlike some Jazz composers who write unpretentious big–band charts designed to serve as springboards for soloists, Ken Schaphorst approaches the task with soloists in mind but focuses always on orchestral textures and colors, employing improvisation as an integral element in the over–all compositional makeup. Instead of playing “outside” the chart with rhythm accompaniment, as is so ...
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