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Chris Tarry: Rest Of The Story
by Mike Jacobs
Canadian bassist Chris Tarry released his last album, Rest of the Story (Nineteen Eight, 2011) as a CD / book hybrid before effectively exiting music to become a full-time writer. As the title track shows, he is an uncommonly talented composer as well as a fine bassist. Hopefully it won't be the last musical endeavor heard ...
Berklee Indian Ensemble featuring Shankar Mahadevan: Five Peace Band
by Mike Jacobs
From December 2016, the uber-talented Berklee Indian Ensemble takes on the John McLaughlin composition “Five Peace Band" with Shakti's master vocalist, Shankar Mahadevan presiding. Among many other things, the staggeringly tight voice/guitar, voice/violin unison lines, and improvisations will likely have you questioning if these are students or masters--or both. (The answer is yes.) ...
Jimmy Herring: Hope
by Mike Jacobs
Some bands' repertoire is so iconic that it rarely gets covered in any meaningful, updated way. Though it falls squarely into this category, Jimmy Herring's expanded 2013 revamp of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's stalwart piece, “Hope" was said to have moved composer John McLaughlin himself and planted the seeds for their subsequent collaborative “Meeting of the Spirits" ...
Peter Epstein Quartet: In Your Voice
by Mike Jacobs
It could be said that jazz, at its best, is a confluence of musical personalities that form a unified collective spirit, brought forth with immediacy. Peter Epstein's “In Your Voice" epitomizes this ethos with remarkably empathetic and stylized performances from the saxophonist, Jamie Saft, Chris Dahlgren and Jim Black. This is further amplified by the one-point, ...
Scott Kinsey: Badia / Boogie Woogie Waltz
by Mike Jacobs
Though an edit of this track is included on electric keyboardist extraordinaire Scott Kinsey's Luniwaz Live (Whirlwind Recordings, 2024), this full, unedited version drives home in no uncertain terms just how qualified Kinsey and company are to take on--and further--the Zawinul legacy. Featuring incendiary performances by Kinsey, bassist Hadrien Feraud, drummer Gergo Borlai and saxophonist Patrick ...
