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Rene Marie: I Wanna Be Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt
by C. Michael Bailey
Iconoclastic and often enigmatic singer Rene Marie was plain when she once said that she never wished to record a tribute disc. After four successful recordings with MAXJAZZ, including one (Vertigo (2001)) provocatively pairing “Dixie" with “Strange Fruit," Marie took a hard left to address in music some of her pressing artistic concerns. This resulted in ...
David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love
by Phil Barnes
If jazz is ever to escape from the “specialist" ghetto in which it finds itself in 2013 the simple truth is that we need more people with the vision of David Murray and more records as good as this one. Murray has a long and distinguished jazz career on tenor sax that began in ...
Charnett Moffett: Spirit Of Sound
by Dan Bilawsky
Bassist Charnett Moffett's first two releases on the Motéma imprint came out two years apart; his third and fourth releases for the same label--The Bridge: Solo Bass Works (Motéma Music, 2013) and the outing under discussion here--arrive a mere three months apart. His working pace has clearly quickened, but the quality of the music hasn't suffered ...
Bob Mover: My Heart Tells Me
by Larry Taylor
Jazz saxophone veteran Bob Mover has put together a very satisfying two-disc release, My Heart Tell Me, with both swinging instrumentals and his very effective,unadorned vocals. Disc one has Mover mostly singing standards in soft pensive fashion, bringing to mind Nat Cole, as well as Chet Baker, his early-days cohort. Standouts on this ...
Jana Herzen: Passion of a Lonely Heart
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jana Herzen è un'artista raffinata che nella vita ha fatto tante cose. Figlia di due professori di Stanford (il padre e la madre, Leonard e Leonore Herzemberg, sono due celebri genetisti ed immunologi), Jana ha iniziato a frequentare la scena artistica newyorkese negli anni Ottanta durante il periodo universitario (studi in arte drammatica ed intensa attività ...
Geri Allen: Grand River Crossings
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo la ricca produzione artistica dei decenni ottanta/novanta e la pausa di riflessione di quello successivo, Geri Allen è tornata a occupare il centro della scena pianistica afroamericana con album magistrali come Flying Toward the Sound (Motéma, 2010), prestigiose collaborazioni (i due album insieme al Trio 3 di Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman e Andrew Cyrille per ...
Army Of The Faithful featuring Gregory Porter
Album: Be My Monster Love
By David Murray
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2013
Duration: 6:09
Power of God
Album: Transcendence
By Jaimeo Brown
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2013
Duration: 7:04
David Weiss: Endangered Species: The Music of Wayne Shorter
by Franz A. Matzner
A solid entry in the ongoing resurgence of focus on Wayne Shorter's music, David Weiss' Endangered Species: The Music of Wayne Shorter is immediately notable for the all-star cast that comprises the 12-piece ensemble and the fact that it was recorded live, enabling the group to interact freely and deliver a potent mix of precision and ...
For Moseka
Album: For the Love of Abbey
By Marc Cary
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2014
Duration: 3:14
