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Mimi Jones: Balance
by Hrayr Attarian
Virtuoso bassist and superlative bandleader Mimi Jones' (AKA Miriam Sullivan) Balance is a delightful album filled with 79 minutes of engaging music. Despite the title, however, it is an unevenly structured work. The edgy, dramatic “The Incy Wincy Spider" for instance completely deconstructs the children's rhyme into an intriguing, darkly hued and haunting piece. ...
Camille Thurman: Origins
by C. Michael Bailey
Camille Thurman may have started as a vocalist, but on her Hot Tone debut, Origins, the flexes her breath, blowing through every instrument that transmits wind. Thurman rides the wave created by bassist/vocalist Mimi Jones, creator of Hot Tone Records with the release of her Balance (2014). A third artist makes a trio in this flood ...
Mimi Jones: Balance
by C. Michael Bailey
NYC-native bassist-raconteur Mimi Jones founded Hot Tone records in 2009, releasing her debut, A New Day. Jones states the label ..."was created to give chances to those who may have been overlooked and denied the necessary support and knowledge to develop." Specifically, and appropriately, the focus of the label has evolved as a resource for women ...
Luis Perdomo: Links
By Luis Perdomo
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2013
Track listing: Percy's Delight; Waiting Time; Crossmind Dreams; Profundo; The "a"
List; The Organ Grinder; Enigma; Three Card Molly; Melisma; Paco;
Elena.
Luis Perdomo: Links
by Andrew Luhn
It's traditional in almost all genres of music that the innovators are always given the most attention. This holds true in jazz as right now as artists like Robert Glasper, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Darcy James Argue are praised for being bold innovators in the world of jazz. While innovation and boundary- pushing are necessary in the ...
2013 Montreal Jazz Festival: June 28-July 2, 2013
by John Kelman
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, CanadaJune 28-July 7, 2013After taking a year off to curate an All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway at Norway's 2012 Kongsberg Jazz Festival, it was great to return to the city that hosts what must surely be the largest jazz festival in the world. Where else ...
Miguel Zenon: Celebrating the Music of La Isla
by Steve Bryant
For the last decade, saxophonist Miguel Zenón has distinguished himself as one of the most innovative and creative musicians in the modern jazz idiom. The Puerto Rican-born altoist accomplished this feat by reaching back to the musical and cultural traditions of his island. On groundbreaking recordings such as Jibaro (Marsalis Music, 2005) and Esta Plena (Marsalis ...
Big Jazz on SmallsLIVE
by Bob Kenselaar
Since its launch in 2010, the SmallsLIVE record label has been offering a substantial sampling of the outstanding jazz talent consistently featured at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Musicians who appear on the label range from the great veterans Harold Mabern and Jimmy Cobb to contemporary players at the top of their ...
Four by Six
By Gregg August
Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Affirmation - 6:15:
02. For Calle Picota - 6:52;
03. For Max - 6:09;
04. Bandolim - 9:04;
05. Strange Street - 7:02;
06. A Ballad For MV - 5:34;
07. Relative Obscurity - 7:16;
08. For Miles - 7:39.
The Infancia Project
By Luis Perdomo
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2012
Track listing: The Other Left; Berimvela; Solar; Happy House; Comedia; Un Poco Loco; Meggido Girl; Mind And Time; Major General.
