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Michael Musillami: Beijing
by Frank Rubolino
On the highflying Beijing, Michael Musillami sets up shop with a swinging team of sprightly improvisers in bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller. Musillami gets into an adventuresome mode on this set, and the others enlist for the fun-loving trip. They play mostly original compositions by Musillami or by band members collectively. The music cooks ...
Groove Teacher
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Seven Blend; The Gift; Open Ended; Off the Glass; Groove Teacher; Today the Angels Cry; Keko Smile; Big Ears and the Blues; Peninsula.
Archives
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Archives; Beijing; The Young Child; Emmett Spencer; I Still Do It for the Music; Ry-Bop; Mohawk Mountain.
Archives/Mar's Bars/Groove Teacher
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Archives; Beijing; The Young Child; Emmett Spencer; I Still Do It For The Music; Ry-Bop; Mohawk Mountain; GlassArt; Shoeshine; Mar
Mar's Bars
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: GlassArt; Shoeshine; Mar's Bars; Out of Balance; Cousin Jim; The Haberdasher Blues; I Wait for the Summertime; Grey Cypress.
Motion Poetry
By Mario Pavone
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Foody; 3M Blues; Poet o Central Park; Emmett Spencer; New Socks; Lament in Passing; Song for M; Archives.
Michael Musillami: Groove Teacher
by AAJ Staff
The third record in guitarist Michael Musillami's trilogy of early '90s recordings offers more of his original compositions, and more intuitive interplay by his tight-knit musical community. Much of the energy on this septet record sparks from Musillami's axe, yet the other players mostly avoid any kind of fixed roles. In general, the compositions tend toward ...
Michael Musillami: Archives
by AAJ Staff
A decade after recording his first record of original compositions, guitarist Michael Musillami's early work finally sees the light of day. The tunes on Archives obey a more rigid and static rhythmic order than the material that followed. The rhythm section, while coloring the foundations with a constant effusion of personality, mostly proceeds in lock-step. Against ...
Michael Musillami: Mar's Bars
by AAJ Staff
In the wake of fusion, jazz guitar has often suffered from the “star effect." A few anointed players receive the bulk of the public's attention, while other stylists with insight and ability remain overshadowed. Pat Metheny, John Scofield, and Charlie Hunter may garner the bulk of the media's attention, but straight-ahead player Michael Musillami has been ...
Michael Musillami: Archives/Mar's Bars/Groove Teacher
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Michael Musillami recorded three sessions with Thomas Chapin between 1990 and 1994. Chapin was an extraordinary human being and musician who died of leukemia in 1998 at age 40. His high level of energy and imagination permeates throughout these recordings and it is a blessing they have been released on Playscape Recordings. Chapin studied jazz ...
