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Matt Moran Trio: Return Trip
by Jerome Wilson
Vibraphonist Matt Moran has carved out a varied musical career for himself. Among other things, he is the leader of the party band Slavic Soul Party! and a member of John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet. He also leads the atmospheric jazz trio on this CD with Gary Versace on Hammond organ and Tom Rainey on drums.
Brian Shankar Adler: Fourth Dimension
by Troy Dostert
A percussionist with fierce rhythmic dynamism and a multiplicity of ideas, Brian Shankar Adler has steadily assembled a formidable body of work over the last several years, despite being relatively under-recognized. Much of this music has been released incrementally, through digitally downloaded EPs, perhaps attenuating its impact. But Adler should receive much more visibility with Fourth ...
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Matt Moran
Vibraphonist and tunesmith Matt Moran "plays the vibraphone like a speed-chess master, always darting off into flurries of ingenious, unexpected activity" (Village Voice). He has performed and recorded with artists as diverse as Mat Maneri, Lionel Hampton, Combustible Edison, Ellery Eskelin, and Saban Bajramovic. Moran's sound is integral to an innovative group of New York musicians who blur the boundaries of composition, improvisation, and folk traditions. Moran received a Master's degree in jazz composition from New England Conservatory in 1995. At NEC he studied with the visionary composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Maneri, and has continued to learn from Maneri through performances with him
Fourth Dimension
Label: Chant Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Introduction Drone; Mantra; Rudram; Pulses; Windy Path; Gowanus; Watertown; Nuearth; Pendulum; Rise and Fall; Alternative Facts.
Falling
By Peter Hess
Label: Diskonife
Released: 2018
Track listing: Bluebells; Move to Mars; Falling; Subduction; Earlier; Gone Lights; Call Ahead; Follower;
Everything Goes
Play Ball
By Matt Moran
Label: Diskonife
Released: 2018
Track listing: Play Ball; Fever Dream; Counterpoint; Dig Your Own Groove; Get Rich Quick; Try; That's What You
Think
Brian Adler: Radioactive Landscapes EP
by Troy Dostert
As was evident on his previous EP releases from 2016, Binary and Mysteries of the Deep, percussionist Brian Adler enjoys working with conceptual frameworks for his compositions. On Binary, he explored the possible interactions between human-and computer-based creativity, and on Mysteries he drew thematic inspiration from the world of Eastern spirituality. These investigations allowed him to ...
Slavic Soul Party: Live at Barbes: Slavic Soul Party Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
by Chris M. Slawecki
In the late 1990s, visionary percussionist Matt Moran founded Slavic Soul Party, a brass band designed to stretch the boundaries between Eastern and Western European traditional music until those boundaries snap. More than two decades and twenty members later, “New York's Official #1 Brass Band for BalkanSoulGypsyFunk" fully realizes this vision by performing one of Duke ...
Sometimes Jazz Takes Guts
by Chris M. Slawecki
Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II Ubiquity Records 2016 Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, ...
Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tourist Point of View; Bluebird of Delhi; Isfahan; Depk; Mount Harissa; Blue
Pepper; Agra; Amad; Ad Lib on Nippon.
