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September 2003
by Glenn Astarita
The Silence Behind Each Cry – Suite for Urs VoerkelOmri Ziegele - Billiger Bauer Intakt Records This Switzerland-based modern jazz nonet minces garrulous horn charts with rock underpinnings in concert with a few rambunctiously rendered cosmic meltdowns. The title work is dedicated to the late Swiss saxophonist Urs Voerkel, whereas “Part IV ...
August 2003
by Glenn Astarita
A Night For BakuDjam Karet Cuneiform Records This artful yet hard-hitting Southern California progressive rock quintet consistently releases quality material. They’ve been in the business since 1984. The band’s latest studio effort features affecting melodies intertwined with sheets of EFX, roaring guitars and thumping backbeats. At times the musicians seemingly get back ...
July 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Jazz & Blues from the Crescent CityVic Shepherd New Orleans Harmonica New Orleans Harmonica Chromatic harmonica performer Vic Shepherd and his bandmates work through a set of jazz and blues standards, although the compositional credits are conspicuously missing from the liners. More importantly, Shepherd’s pronounced love for New Orleans is clearly conveyed ...
June 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Uses Wrist GrabBONE Cuneiform Records BONE is guitarist Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve), bassist Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), and drummer John Roulat (Forever Einstein). In essence, this is a power trio with avant stylizations, complete with shrewdly placed loops and EFX induced treatments amid the trio’s angular movements. And for those familiar with ...
May 2003
by Glenn Astarita
In Swing Guitar Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis Stony Plain Records This is the followup effort to Conversations In Swing Guitar. The title says it all, as guitarist Duke Robillard (Bob Dylan, Fabulous Thunderbirds) and jazz guitar great Herb Ellis cook up a warmly swinging set. Rhythm guitarist Terry Holmes, bassist Marty ...
April 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Eight Plus Ron Carter Nonet Dreyfus Jazz Recorded in 1990, and recently released in the States, Ron Carter uses a piccolo bass here, while handing over the upright bass duties to Leon Maleson. Featuring a jazz quintet, the fun factor really gels with the addition of the quartet of cellists, who add ...
March 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Drip Brad Shepik Trio Knitting Factory Guitarist Brad Shepik follows up his previous “Knitting Factory Records” trio release with a bang! As this New York-based crew adds a sense of newness to the traditional aspects of the mainstream jazz, guitar trio format. On “P.M.” they mince a freely organized bump and grind ...
February 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Transcontinental Christopher Adler Trio 9Winds Pianist Christopher Adler leads his modern jazz/free improvisational trio thru three lengthy pieces, brimming with climactically oriented crescendos, circular movements and swirling progressions. Woodwinds specialist Alan Lechusza and drummer Vikas Srivastava provide a burly yet altogether penetrating attack, as they often regenerate previously explored passages. The band ...
January 2003
by Glenn Astarita
Iron Sky Jerry Granelli – Jeff Reilly Love Slave Records Modern jazz drummer Jerry Granelli and clarinetist Jeff Reilly incorporate EFX (sound sculptures) into this largely ethereal set, consisting of intricate dialogue, droning cymbal swashes, and other subtleties. Relatively quiet in scope to complement a few climactically oriented movements – this effort ...
