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Bet.E: b.coming
by Martin Gladu
What a joy it is to witness the becoming of an artist--the singular process of a talent developing, verging on a breakthrough. A maturing voice rising through the jumble that are ghost influences, past collaborations, and the sometimes inconclusive artistic decisions that comes with learning and trying to advance one's career. Well on her ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Martin Gladu
Deep-blue oceans, airbrushed clouds, flaking dabs of greens receding into desolate plains... Remember the first time you saw a picture of the Earth? Remember that feeling?Did you know one can cover the Earth with one's thumb when standing from the Moon? Defenseless in the pitch-black, still silence of the Universe, our home--at least, that ...
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
by Martin Gladu
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age Steve Knopper Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 1416552154 Free Press 2009 Like the print industry before it, the music business underwent profound changes during the 1990s and 2000s. During the early ...
Odd Man Out: Uncovering The Life Of Cal Lampley
by Martin Gladu
A Hammond B3's entrancing mantra spills into the room, calling to arms a horde of skin beaters into a spellbinding, almost shamanic dance. A dark-voiced guitar pairs up to a silvery flute in melody. Earth and Fire unite. Enchanting, the musical whirlwind that unfolds brings to mind the spirit of the late sixties. Haight And Ashbury. ...
Jovino Santos Neto & Weber Iago: Live at Caramoor
by Martin Gladu
This music pushes. As if moved by an influx of charged energy, it pushes further and further. Where to? Hard to say. Further. Away.Like those ancient tales of Attila rampaging through the Steps of Asia and burning every strand of grass behind him, Carioca pianists Jovino Santos Neto and Weber Iago jump out of ...
Jazz Goes Globetrotting
by Martin Gladu
Itself a hybrid art form, jazz has a degree of permeability which enables it to reach ethnically and geographically diverse audiences. This is mainly achieved by incorporating elements borrowed from those same “foreign" cultures: think of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's use of Afro Cuban rhythms, the adoption of Brazilian tunes into the standard repertoire in ...
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze: Sira
by Martin Gladu
It is often said an image is worth a thousand words. Well, now that the concept of the album cover has been relegated to mere packets of metadata--at best experienced via the tiniest screen-mounted, portable music devices--it appears rather sad that fans will likely miss out on Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze's cover of Sira. Somewhat ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando
by Martin Gladu
Bobo Stenson sings! Well, not literally, but the highly communicative and evocative qualities that characterize his music are indeed imbued of such conductive lyricism that it seems rather appropriate pointing out Cantando (Spanish word for singing) is a well-chosen title. Unpretentiously carving their place amidst the select cast of historically-significant piano trios, ...
Sam Sadigursky: Words Project II
by Martin Gladu
"On the dark and difficult path you have chosen, you sometimes lose your way." As if by premonition, the opening phrase from New York City-based reedman/composer Sam Sadigursky's Words Project II not only summarizes its leader's against-the-grain approach, but the album's less conclusive result than the initial The Words Project (New Amsterdam, 2007). In the first ...
Sean McGowan: Indigo
by Martin Gladu
"When the smith gets wildly excited, 'tis best to agree with him," warns the Gaelic proverb. Needless to say when a person's full name translates into “Oldest Son of the Smith" the weight of such patronymic suddenly takes a whole new importance. Fortunately, guitarist Sean McGowan need not resort to swinging heavy apparatus to elicit the ...
