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Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil: Tudo Azul
by Michael P. Gladstone
Led by vocalist/pianist/percussionist Susan Pereira, the group Sabor Brasil offers a debut album with the addition of guests including guitarist Romero Lubambo, harmonicist Hendricks Meurkens and trumpeter Claudio Roditi. Founded in 1991 by Pereira and her husband, drummer Vanderlei Pereira, Sabor Brasil has been making itself known at New York clubs like 55 Bar, Zinc and ...
Alfredo Naranjo: Y El Guajeo
by Chip Boaz
Pulling jazz and salsa into a unique mixture requires a balance between freedom and structure. Salsa recordings benefit from tightly arranged forms with commercially dictated norms. Jazz thrives upon variation and the liberty to explore new directions spontaneously. Vibraphonist Alfredo Naranjo and his musicians find an aesthetic balance between freedom and structure on Y El Guajeo, ...
"Optimism" by Alto Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw Set for March 18, 2008 Release
Award-Winning Composer/Instrumentalist Joined By Robert Glasper, Lage Lund, Jeremy Pelt, Joe Martin & Johnathan Blake On His Second CD As A Leader With the March 18, 2008 release of Optimism (Changu Records CR001), Jaleel Shaw's second CD as a leader, the award-winning alto saxophonist and composer further solidifies his position as one of the most distinctive ...
Pianist Jose Negroni & Guitarist Aquiles Baez Debut Music from New CDs During "A Taste of Cacao" March 6 & 7 at the Jazz Gallery
WHO: Cacao Musica Recording Artists Jose Negroni (piano) & Aquiles Baez (guitar) WHAT: A TASTE OF CACAO - Showcases of Their New CDs (out March 4th) on Venezuelan Jazz / World Music Label Cacao Musica NEGRONI'S TRIO - “Father & Son" - CME 010 / AQUILES BAEZ - “La Patilla ("The Watermelon") - CME 009 WHEN: ...
Gary Smulyan: More Treasures
by Francis Lo Kee
Perhaps if you asked jazz fans to name a progenitorial baritone saxophonist, they might name Harry Carney or Gerry Mulligan. Yet Gary Smulyan's lineage comes more from musicians like Cecil Payne, Leo Parker, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff and Nick Brignola--the few baritonists that dared to master the tricky, chromatic music known as bebop. Indeed, More Treasures ...
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Dream Garden
by Jeff Stockton
They used to say that everyone who bought the first Velvet Underground record must have started a band. In time, we may come to realize that every jazz musician who moved into the area of World Music first caught the bug from Don Cherry's Mu, Brown Rice, or any of the other number of globally-minded records ...
McCoy Tyner Guest of Honor at 32nd Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration June 5-8 in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
The 2008 Telluride Jazz Celebration is June 5-8,2008!!! Featuring McCoy Tyner “Guest of Honor", The Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Joe Lovano, Bettye LaVette, Dave Liebman Group, Simone, Grupo Fantasma, Maelstrom Trio featuring Skerik, Crescent Super Band and many others! Since 1977 Telluride's majestic perch - high in the spectacular San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado -- ...
Martin Bejerano: Evolution/Revolution
by Francis Lo Kee
Time will tell, but this may be one of those debut CDs that people will talk about for decades, one where people ask, “Do you remember when you first heard...? While the opening “Blues Evolution displays enough amazing piano chops to send the most accomplished musicians back to the woodshed, what this recording has is a ...
Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet with Guest Vocalist Eva Ayllon at Joe's Pub in NY Jan. 20
Who: Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet w/ special guest vocalist Eva Ayllon What: Showcase of CD Nuevo Mundo / Ms. Aylln's debut in a jazz context When: Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:30 pm Where: Joe's Pub / 425 Lafayette Street / NYC 10003 Cost: $20 / General Admission Info: 212.967.7555 Trumpeter and composer Gabriel Alegra has ...
Freddy Cole: Cole and Laid Back
by Ernest Barteldes
For Music Maestro Please (High Note, 2007), his seventeenth releases since I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me (High Note, 1990), singer/pianist Freddy Cole teamed with pianist Bill Charlap and his trio, featuring bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington. The album features songs that, for the most part, the Georgia Music Hall of Famer (he was ...
