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Mats Öberg Trio - Hermeto's Cheese (Live at Nyhetsmorgon)
by Mike Jacobs
Swedish phenom Mats Öberg is primarily known for his Zappa-esque keyboard work as part of the Mats/ Morgan Band (his longtime duo-led group with drummer Morgan Agren). In more recent years, Öberg has taken some solo piano and piano trio-oriented musical departures--the latter taking him more squarely into jazz territory. Witness the Mats Oberg Trio's “Hermeto's ...
Jon Cleary And The Absolute Monster Gentlemen: Go To The Mardi Gras
by Mike Jacobs
What better way to celebrate Fat Tuesday than with one of the reigning champion purveyors of that jazz/blues/funk gumbo the Crescent City is noted for. And even though it may be startling to learn that Mr. Cleary is a British expatriate, no one need check his papers. As this tune illustrates, his complete assimilation of the ...
Fractal Sextet: Sky Full Of Hope
by Mike Jacobs
Calling Stephan Thelen's music an extension of the Swiss Minimalist movement may have once seemed appropriate. However, in the years since his band Sonar and Fractal Guitar projects have come to the fore, that characterization has increasingly become inadequate. Proximity, influence, and linkages exist but Thelen's copious activities in the last decade show such a deepening ...
Looking Back
By Allan Hirt
Label: Megahirtz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cute; Well You Needn't; Lullabye Baby; Pretzel Logic; Linus and Lucy; Song for My Father; Pure Imagination; Red; Nostalgia; Mr. Roboto; Times Like These; Impressions/So What; The Looking Back Suite Part I: And So It Goes; The Looking Back Suite Part II: Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel); The Looking Back Suite Part III: Turn the Lights Back On; The Looking Back Suite Part IV: And So It Goes (Reprise); The Looking Back Suite Part V: Souvenir
Dhafer Youssef: 39th Gulay (To Istanbul)
by Mike Jacobs
Dhafer Youssef's live tour de force, “39th Gulay (to Istanbul)" vibrates with the electrifying hallmarks the oud master's work is known for: beautifully odd matrices spun with harmonic and instrumental eclecticism with participation from a wide variety of A-listers. Featured here are Kristjian Randalu on piano, Eivind Aarset on electric guitar, Phil Donkin on upright bass, ...
