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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 ...
Roni Ben-Hur: Keepin' It Open
by Budd Kopman
Roni Ben-Hur, originally from Israel, has been a mainstay of the New York straight-ahead scene for twenty years now. Having a style that is clearly out of the Wes Montgomery/Grant Green mold, Ben-Hur makes no apologies for his predilection for the sound and style of the Blue Note label from the fifties and sixties. Like saxophonist ...
Ryan Cohan: One Sky
by J Hunter
In 2005, Ryan Cohan received a grant from Chamber Music America to create one long-form composition on a subject of his choosing. One year later, he debuted the piece during a free concert at Skidmore Jazz Institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he has been both student and educator. The audience heard a work of ...
Live at the Kennedy Center
By Rufus Reid
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Come Out and Play; Ode to Angela; Celebration; Heroes; When She Smiles Upon Your Face; Forever On My Mind; Sophisticated Lady; Dreamgliding; The Meddler; The Peaceful Flame.
Rufus Reid Quintet: Live at the Kennedy Center
by Jim Santella
This CD/DVD set features bassist Rufus Reid with his quintet at the famed Washington DC venue in a program of original music along with one classic tune by Duke Ellington. The quintet, featuring pianist Sumi Tonooka, drummer Tim Horner, tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, follows a standard mainstream format, interpreting each theme together, ...
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