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Alexander Claffy: Good Spirits

Read "Good Spirits" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 27, 2022

Bassist Alexander Claffy's quintet dashes from the starting gate on Good Spirits with a fiery reading of McCoy Tyner's propulsive “Inner Glimpse," setting the tone for a bright and animated session whose spirit is undeniably good. The album was recorded “live" (no audience) at GB's Juke Joint in New York City “at the height of the ...

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Chuck Anderson: Spontaneity

Read "Spontaneity" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
November 13, 2021

For those who don't know, Chuck Anderson is a jazz guitarist, composer, and educator based in the Philadelphia area for many years. He studied with Dennis Sandole, went on to be the staff guitarist at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ followed by a tour of duty at the Valley Forge Music Fair in Devon, ...

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Ran Blake: Chabrol Noir

Read "Chabrol Noir" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 23, 2016

Notoriamente appassionato di cinema, Ran Blake ci regala una delle sue opere più significative e appassionate esplorando l'universo di uno dei suoi grandi amori, Claude Chabrol, di cui fin dalla copertina, scopertamente hitchcockiana, il disco rievoca abilmente l'universo espressivo. L'album ha come persino scontato filo conduttore il pianoforte di Blake, senza accompagnamento alcuno ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Michel Legrand, the Pianist and Composer, is Making a Rare New York Appearance at Birdland.

March 7, 2009

Take Many Textures, Then Mix Together A 77-year-old child prodigy with bushy eyebrows and the heart of an adolescent swooning at his first exposure to Rachmaninoff: that describes the sensibility of Michel Legrand, the French jazz pianist and composer and multiple Oscar winner who is playing a rare New York engagement at Birdland, accompanied ...