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An Evening With Eddie Gomez
by Mark Sabbatini
Eddie Gomez An Evening With Eddie Gomez Telling Pictures 2006 Not many jazz fans would associate bassist Eddie Gomez with the likes of Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson, but he had his own “lip syncing" episode during the Grammy Awards back in the 1970s during his famous stint ...
Jukka Tolonen: Cool Train - Tolonen Plays Coltrane!
by Mark Sabbatini
If Coltrane is an acquired taste for you, this album might be a palatable way to start. Cool Train sounds like what one expects from a rock/fusion player who's been performing for nearly four decades. Whether this spoon-feeding of well-known songs is a good thing is very much in the ears of the beholder. Hooks snag ...
Carin Lundin: Songs That We All Recognize
by Mark Sabbatini
The title promises musical comfort food, and that's what this album delivers. No more, no less. Songs That We All Recognize is a well-assembled album of mostly standards that takes no chances, offers no unexpected curves and avoids any disappointments for listeners seeking low-key acoustic straight-ahead jazz. Swedish vocalist Carin Lundin's third album is in the ...
Rollplay: The Musical Dice Game
by Mark Sabbatini
Marcus Wolfe Rollplay: The Musical Dice Game Treble Clef Edition Roll Play Dice ISBN: 1-929612-78-8 Practicing scales is dull. This “game" won't change that. Rollplay is promoted by creator Marcus Wolfe as a musical dice game that helps teach beginning to advanced scales. In ...
The Inaugural Nebraska Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
As a fan of the obscure, the phrase “first-ever Nebraska Jazz Festival" is an irresistible lure. Surely no state is this sheltered, not even this flatland where Cornhuskers are still ignorant about the forward pass. Lincoln may be no more than a rest stop for road trips to real places such as Boulder, Colo., ...
John Medeski And Marian McPartland: Piano Jazz
by Mark Sabbatini
The matchup is so unusual that it's alluring before a word is spoken or a note played: Marian McPartland, 85, the straight-laced matronly host of public radio's Piano Jazz spending an hour with John Medeski, 40, perhaps the most recognizable pioneer of modern acid jazz as one third of Medeski, Martin and Wood. She plays an ...
Fredrik Nor: Sweden Bahia Connection
by Mark Sabbatini
"Bahia," in my world, is a word associated with a religious faith of vague doctrine whose dedicatees maintain a disconcerting degree of secrecy in my home town. Imagining Swedes of this persuasion doing an album of Brazilian songs makes for a twisted mental picture. Thank God--whoever that is in your world--for Google.
The European Real Book
by Mark Sabbatini
The European Real Book “C" version Sher Music Spiral bound; 423 pages ISBN: 1883217245 2005 It's a mirror opposite in many ways of the original Real Book, yet captures the excitement and feel of it like no other version has since. The European Real ...
Jeannette Lindstrom: In The Middle Of This Riddle
by Mark Sabbatini
There's good poetry about flowers and there's “roses are red, violets are blue." But if one isn't into floral fawning, even the quality stuff sounds saccharine. A similar case exists with vocalist Jeannette Lindstrom's In The Middle Of This Riddle, which in a better world would be emitting from speakers at megachain bookstores instead of Norah ...
Mika Pohjola: Leivonen Lumimyrskyssa - Celebrating The Music Of Toivo Karki
by Mark Sabbatini
Perhaps the most intriguing question about a tribute album like this is the original performer's reaction to a modern shakeup of their work. Approval? Outrage? Indifference? A key factor, aside from quality, might be the artist's inclination for departure from convention. If so, Finnish composer Toivo Kärki probably would approve much, if not everything, about this ...
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