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Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man
by John Kelman
When Tim Berne released his ECM debut, Snakeoil in 2012, it quickly garnered some of the best reviews of the saxophonist/composer's career, ending up on a number of year-end best of lists. And why not? With a group already together for a couple years (as Los Totopos), Snakeoil represented a major step forward for Berne, both ...
Tom Dempsey: Saucy
by Glenn Astarita
Highly-regarded New York City session guitarist Tom Dempsey's sixth solo endeavor pays homage to the classic organ combo format, topped with a piquant sense of swing. Tuneful and capacious, the guitarist's dark- toned sound nicely parallels with organist Ron Oswanski's warm phrasings, synchronous progressions and sleek solos. Dempsey's Wes Montgomery-like chord solos and soul-jazz riffs are ...
Brian Adler's Helium Music Project Album Now Available
Brian Adler's Helium Music Project, is a global collaboration that transcends the boundaries of jazz and world music to create a rich new music and format for musical output. A delightfully uplifting representation of [Adler's] musical philosophy," says Alex Ariff of All About Jazz. The group highlights Adler's love for rhythmic intricacy, texture, and soulful melodies. ...
Book Release: A World Of Percussion: Ten Etudes Inspired By Rhythms From Across The Globe
Circavision Productions Presents the new book: A World of Percussion: Ten études inspired by rhythms from across the globe Available October 1st, 2013 The book, and accompanying CD, encourage its participants to explore sound and rhythm through various percussion instruments and their bodies, while learning about rhythms from around the world. It includes ten colorful percussion ...
BJURecords Proudly Releases Guitarist/Composer Perry Smith's New Recording Perry Smith Quartet - Street Sense
Featuring Perry Smith (guitar, compositions), Dayna Stephens (saxophone), Sam Minaie (bass), Ross Pederson (drums) Available October 29, 2013 Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records proudly announces the release of the Perry Smith Quartet - Street Sense, the new recording from guitarist/composer Perry Smith. Street Sense, from the California-born, Brooklyn-based artist, was inspired and influenced by simplicity, repetition, melody, ...
39 Steps
by John Kelman
John Abercrombie has rarely played with pianists, at least in his own groups and throughout his extensive discography as a leader for ECM Records that began with the immediate classic, 1975's Timeless. Other than a brief reunion with that record's group for 1984's Night, the veteran guitarist has, in fact, only recorded with one other piano-based ...
Cacaw: Stellar Power
by Glenn Astarita
Cacaw evolved from an acoustic trio as a mechanism for keyboardist Landon Knoblock to merge his compositions with electronics, and a result of his affiliation with drummer Jeff Davis and saxophonist Oscar Noriega in a band that performed the music of jazz piano great, Andrew Hill. Time marches on, as Cacaw underscores its musicality with a ...
Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series at Roulette
by Kurt Gottschalk
The Tri-Centric Orchestra Roulette Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series Brooklyn, NY Sept. 24-25, 2013 Addressing the audience at Roulette on Sept. 24, halfway through the first of two nights of the Tri-Centric Presenting Series, trumpeter and foundation executive director Taylor Ho Bynum acknowledged the influence of Artistic Director and spiritual godfather ...
Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat
by Chris Becker
Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat Michael Veal ISBN: 978-0-8223-5591-5 Duke University Press 2013 First of all, drummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of ...
Ron Aprea: Remembering Blakey
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Legendary drummer Art Blakey, he of the eponymous Jazz Messengers, is regularly attributed with saying: Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life." Well, if that's the case, this superb recording from saxophonist Ron Aprea and his cleaning crew certainly left the studio spotless, and themselves, to be somewhat crude but oh-so accurate, assless.This ...

