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Ellery Eskelin: Quiet Music
by Kurt Gottschalk
Saxophonist Ellery Eskelin's trio with Andrea Parkins and Jim Black is so tight, so dense, that it's hard to imagine another musician in the mix. But on this double-disc set he adds vocalist Jessica Constable and on three tracks augments the group up to a quintet with Phillippe Gelda on keyboards and vocals. The results are ...
Laurent Medelgi "Diverses" Now on Itunes
Following his first release as a Trio “Circles, Live @ 55 bar" in 2002, Laurent Medelgi expands to a full 10-piece band with this new CD Diverses. Recipient of a Grant by A.E. Ventures Foundation in the Summer 06, he is able to record a full length album of his original compositions which he orchestrates for ...
Yves Leveille, Marco Pereira and Christine Jensen: Soho, Essence and Look Left
by Donald Elfman
Yves Leveille Soho Effendi 2007 Marco Pereira Essence (with Paul McCandless) Kind of Blue 2007 Christine Jensen Look Left Effendi 2007 ...
Jazz Mozart: John di Martino & Uri Caine
by Jim Santella
John di Martino's Romantic Jazz Trio Jazz Mozart Venus Records 2007 Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart Winter & Winter 2007 Contained in Mozart's body of work is lyrical romance, ...
Careers That Trane Built: Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane
by Jeff Stockton
Pharoah Sanders The Impulse Story Impulse 2006 Alice Coltrane The Impulse Story Impulse 2006 If Impulse was “the house that Trane built , as author Ashley Kahn ...
Rich Perry: Rhapsody & Merge Into Beauty
by Ken Dryden
Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, who has been active on the jazz scene for several decades in a variety of settings, is the common factor between these two top shelf recordings. The first is a duo date with veteran pianist Harold Danko; the latter features Perry as a member of drummer Christian Finger's international band.
Bennie Maupin: Penumbra
by Matthew Miller
One of the true challenges faced by the creative artist is the need to evolve over the course of a career, to respect the past while staring unflinchingly toward the future. This is especially true of improvising musicians, who do this while inextricably in the moment, creating structure from chaos, revealing the future in the blinding ...
Brotherly Jazz
by Ken Dryden
The Heath Brothers Brotherly Jazz DanSun Productions 2006 The Heath Brothers-- bassist Percy, saxophonist Jimmy and drummer Albert “Tootie --are covered in great detail in this documentary about one of jazz' most beloved families. The film lovingly intertwines their individual and collective stories, augmented by concert footage from ...
Kate McGarry: The Target
by Suzanne Lorge
Kate McGarry makes full use of her lilting, pitch- perfect voice on The Target, her third release for Palmetto Records. Like many jazz singers today, McGarry culls some of her musical ideas from non-jazz idioms like pop and folk; in McGarry's case, this hybridization of influences expands rather than limits her individual vocal expression. According to ...
The Jazz Violin Connection: Happy Reunion & Oh Lady Be Good
by Ken Dryden
Violin always seems to be thought of in a classical context first, in spite of the considerable contributions of jazz violinists over the past eight decades. Two recordings, one by a relative newcomer that has just been released, the other a reissue of a 1980 release by a legend, share some common ground.
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