Results for "Mike Jacobs"

Avishai Cohen: Nu Nu

by Mike Jacobs
August 22, 2024

David Gilmore: Musical Revolutions

by Mike Jacobs
August 22, 2024

After departing the prodigious fusion band Lost Tribe and after a notable stint in Trilok Gurtu's Crazy Saints band, guitarist David Gilmore released a less fusion-oriented solo debut, Ritualism (Kashka Music, 2000). The move toward more traditional sonics however, did not mean the music was any less exploratory. Case in point is “Musical Revolutions" with its ...

Remembering All About Jazz's Dave Binder / John Kelman

by AAJ Staff
August 15, 2024

It is with great sadness that All About Jazz must announce the death of Dave Binder, better known to millions of readers as John Kelman. Dave died of a heart attack on August 10th, after a long bout of illness. For twenty years Dave was the most internationally renowned of all AAJ's contributors, penning over 2,700 ...

Scott Kinsey: Luniwaz LIVE

by Mike Jacobs
August 2, 2024

Scott Kinsey's connection to the music of Joe Zawinul and Weather Report is undeniable--and hardly new to even casual partakers of the keyboardist's work. As Kinsey explains, the pull was there from the beginning: “Joe was an innovative improviser, composer, and conceptualist but for me, especially so as the first jazz synthesist I had ever encountered. ...

Tribal Tech: Solemn

by Mike Jacobs
July 28, 2024

On its way to becoming the stalwart fusion quartet it was in the '90s, Tribal Tech underwent more than a few personnel changes. (TT was more of a non-touring, studio entity in its early days.) One who held the keyboard chair for a scant two songs was Will Boulware. His presence on Dr. Hee (Relativity, 1987) ...

Mike Miller Quintet: World Goes Round Parts 1 & 2

by Mike Jacobs
July 26, 2024

The title track(s) from guitarist Mike Miller's World Goes Round (Wakonda Music, 2008), separated on the album, are here placed in sequence for your listening pleasure. The initial melancholy of the Bacharach-tinged Part 1 eventually gives way to its hopeful out-cycle. In part 2, that out-cycle finds a life of its own, seemingly reaffirming the promise ...

Aaron Parks: Attention, Earthlings

by Mike Jacobs
July 24, 2024

Chad Wackerman: All Sevens

by Mike Jacobs
July 23, 2024

Ben Monder: Hydra

by Mike Jacobs
July 22, 2024

Stylistically hard-to-describe artists are nothing new. However, with Ben Monder's solo excursions, one often feels the need to issue a warning/disclaimer that might read something like, “Caution--Exiting Known Musical Universe." The 24-minute title track from his album Hydra (Sunnyside, 2013) indeed melds techniques and generic signposts from jazz, rock, medieval and modern classical music, but it ...

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