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Jake Hertzog Promotional Tracks
Jake Hertzog's new release on Buckyball Records, Patterns, is hitting the streets by the end of the month. We want to share with you in advance two free mp3 promo tracks. “Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzogs playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his ...
Joseph Jarman, Bob Wilber, Charles McPherson & Vinny Golia
by Martin Longley
Joseph Jarman/The Peter Apfelbaum New York Hieroglyphics QuintetBelarusan ChurchMarch 7 In the search for ever-more unusual venues, I journeyed to the Belarusan Church on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the current home of Connection Works. This is an artist-operated, non-profit organization that divides its resources between gigs and workshop activities, ...
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite: 5000 Poems
by John Sharpe
There was a time when the addition of a chordal instrument such as piano to a horn-led free jazz quartet would have been viewed as a nod to the mainstream. But not the case now and especially not when the pianist in question is John Blum and the group is trombonist Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite. ...
Lester Young: Centennial Celebration Lester Young
by Andrew Velez
Although he'd lived a scant 50 hard years when he died in 1959, tenor sax giant Lester Willis Young was and remains one of the most vital and influential forces in jazz. He used words as singularly as he played, dubbing Billie Holiday “Lady Day"; theirs was an incomparable musical pairing and she returned the favor, ...
Fat Cat Big Band: Face
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Face is an album with layers. Each of the ten tracks offers a nuanced explication of anticipation, heartbreak and spirituality. The glistening veneer of giddiness and celebration is attractive and reviving. But if you listen closely, there's also yearning and loneliness and a grasping for spiritual fulfillment. The entire album is soulful in the way some ...
Marc Wagnon's CD Release "Earth is a Cruel Master" on Buckyball Music
Marc returns to his own musical vision, combining great jazz-rock with thought-provoking themes such as recent scientific discoveries, climate change and the human condition. Marc takes on the lion's share of the instrumentation, returning to his first love: the drum set- and is joined by long-time collaborators Van Manakas and Leo Traversa. In the early 90's ...
MOJA Radio/Weekly Features (5-11 April 2010)
This Monday, April 5th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on the ageless guitarist and father of jazz fusion LARRY CORYELL three days after the day that marks his 67th birthday. You'll hear all about his move to New York ...
Mark Turner: International Alliances
by Tom Greenland
Diego Barber Calima Sunnyside Records 2008 Mamasaal Quartet Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner SAZAS 2008 Saxophonist Mark Turner, a notable bandleader and distinctive voice in his own right, ...
Andrew Cyrille: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things; Opus de Life & The Dark Tree
by Clifford Allen
Walt DickersonTell Us Only the Beautiful ThingsWhynot-Candid1975 (2009) Profound Sound TrioOpus De LifePorter2009 Horace TapscottThe Dark TreeHat Hut1991 (2009) Percussionist Andrew Cyrille ...
Evan Parker: House Full of Floors and SET
by Gordon Marshall
House Full of FloorsTzadik2009 SETPsi2009 Not to be missed in Evan Parker's colossal recorded output is the great deal of fun at play in it. House Full of Floors is a case in point. ...
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