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One Sky
By Ryan Cohan
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Double Agent; Easy for You to Say; Six Fortunes; Checkmate; Lush Life; One Sky: Tone Poem for Humanity (Into Being, Part One; Into Being, Part Two; Wonder and Response; Awe; Hope).
The Turning Gate
By David Weiss
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Turning Gate; New; David and Goliath; Once; Bad Alchemy; The Faith Suite (I; In the Beginning; II; Twilight; III; The Doubtful; IV; Panic); Onward.
Gene Bertoncini / Roni Ben-Hur: Smile: Jazz Therapy Volume 1
by J Hunter
In November 2007, Roni Ben-Hur and his bassist Earl May approached Motema Records with a great idea: They would record a duo CD, pro bono, as a fundraiser for the Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund, a trust created by Engelwood Hospital and Medical Center to fund health care for jazz musicians who can't afford it (i.e. just ...
New Jazz Composers Octet: The Turning Gate
by Greg Camphire
From the first track on The Turning Gate, it's obvious that the New Jazz Composers Octet has spent considerable quality time together since their founding in 1996. The sheer number of hours spent writing, arranging, and playing material has strengthened this fresh ensemble into a superior example of jazz excellence. With each member working at the ...
New Jazz Composers Octet: The Turning Gate
by J Hunter
Good support players can add color and depth to the vision of almost any artist; the right supporting cast can help a leader move in innumerable creative directions--witness the many phases of Dave Douglas. But what if a support player has a vision to share with the world? That was trumpeter David Weiss' motivation for founding ...
Gene Bertoncini / Roni Ben-Hur: Smile: Jazz Therapy Volume 1
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This is a terrific release for several reasons. For one thing, everyone involved in the CD's creation and promotion donated their services, which funnels all proceeds directly to the Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund of the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey. According to Jana Herzen, president of Motema Music, Smile:Jazz Therapy Volume 1 ...
Gene Bertoncini / Roni Ben-Hur: Jazz Therapy, Volume 1: Smile
by Karen Hogg
Smile, the inaugural CD from Motema's Jazz Therapy series, comes from guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Roni Ben-Hur and benefits a very worthy cause. The proceeds from the album, the first recorded collaboration between the pair, go to the Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund at Englewood Hospital, providing free medical care to jazz musicians in need.
Antonio Ciacca: Rush Life
by John Barron
Italian pianist Antonio Ciacca is the kind of musician who displays his influences without reservation. Steeped in the tradition of bebop and gospel piano, the New York resident is focused on swinging as hard as he can. Evidence of this can be heard on Rush Life, a hard-blowing quintet recording with tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter ...
The New Jazz Composers Octet: The Turning Gate
by Laurel Gross
Trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader David Weiss has been a fixture on the New York scene since returning to the city of his birth after graduating from North Texas State. Leader of the long-running New Jazz Composers Octet, Weiss continues to evolve. The Turning Gate, the third album from the NJCO, though ...
Ryan Cohan: One Sky
by AAJ Italy Staff
Strumentista di solida formazione accademica, il trentaseienne Ryan Cohan vanta già una corposa serie di collaborazioni, che lo hanno portato a suonare con diverse eminenze jazzistiche (Freddy Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Regina Carter, Kurt Elling) ed arrangiare la musica di Ramsey Lewis . A giudicare dal disco in esame, egli si dimostra leader di buona personalità nonché ...
