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Opsvik, Tone Collector & Wallumr
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Eivind Opsvik Overseas II Fresh Sound New Talent 2005 Overseas II broadens the documentation of the New York growth of the music by bassist Eivind Opsvik away from his native Norway. He writes present-day jazz material unlike anything else in the market. “Stranded starts with ...
Richard Drexler: Se
by Andrew Rowan
Pianist/bassist/vocalist Richard Drexler has crafted an eclectic recording, full of fire and humor, saluting the music of Johannes Brahms reinvented through Latin American rhythms. Along the way he also tips his hat to American popular music. The imaginative Drexler uses the vallenato and cumbia (Columbia), tango (Argentina), bolero (Cuba), merengue, pasajes and gaitas (Venezuela), ...
Cyro Baptista: Beat the Donkey Beat
by Javier AQ Ortiz
As rich and varied as this music is, it's a glimpse of a multifaceted enterprise that encompasses a broad aesthetic and disciplinary gamut that includes dance, couture silliness, tap, body and common objects percussion, capoeira, and light effects, among other things. Wisely, a three minute QuickTime short is included with the release that can be played ...
Harvey Mason: With All My Heart
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Harvey Mason's motto on With All My Heart seems to be “The one who plays drums in a jazz trio with the most bad-ass pianists and bassists wins. Arguably, that can be also stated of his entire career, as he has played and recorded with a mind-numbing amount of artists through various historical periods and musical ...
Luciana Souza: Duos II
by Brandt Reiter
This followup to singer Luciana Souza's 2002 Grammy-nominated Brazilian Duos charts much the same territory: it's a lilting, luscious record of acoustic Brazilian song interpreted through guitar and voice duets--and, if anything, it's even better than its excellent predecessor. Guitarists Romero Lubambo and Marco Pereira return from the previous project, appearing on five and three cuts, ...
Myron Walden: This Way
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Alto saxophonist Myron Walden's quartet on This Way, featuring bassist Vicente Archer, drummer E.J. Strickland, and tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene, is quite robust.The musicians engage in a scorching pursuit of heavy swinging and melodically dissonant bopping on “Like I See It. As the saxophonists burn with discriminating abandon, their respective approach to thematic progressions ...
Hayes Greenfield: Peace of Mind
by Brian P. Lonergan
Saxophonist Hayes Greenfield's album Peace of Mind is a thoroughly enjoyable and palatable listen, a sonic equivalent of a painting with a wide array of colors all complementing each other. So it's a surprise that the music is mostly made by only a quartet.Part of that lasting effect is due to the joyous second ...
Benny Lackner Trio: Not the Same
by Jeff Stockton
Pianist Benny Lackner's conception of the jazz trio places his music somewhere between the Bad Plus and Matthew Shipp's nu bop, with a smattering of Brad Mehldau in the crevices. His entirely original but vaguely familiar compositions serve as rest stops that space apart his trio's flashy, attention-grabbing covers. He and his band ...
Various Artists: Swing Gitan: The Django Reinhardt NY Festival, Live at Birdland 2002
by Brian P. Lonergan
From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django Reinhardt Festival, live at Birdland in 2002, the music--jangling guitars, pumping accordion, swinging violins, and wailing reeds--is so energetic, exuberant, and ...
Rick Germanson: You Tell Me
by Brian P. Lonergan
Pianist Rick Germanson was named one of AAJ-NY's Best New Talents of 2004. If there were any questions as to why, You Tell Me should help answer them. Germanson's sophomore recording is a solid piano trio outing in which he peppers his original compositions with a few lesser-played standards, mixing ballads and a fine blues with ...
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