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Mt. Hood Jazz Band and Combo 2007: I'm Still Here

by Ken Dryden
February 7, 2008

There is a certain level of expectation for student bands, but the music from this all-star group belies its members' tender years. Their ensembles are tight and the soloists play at a very high level. The Mt. Hood Jazz Band--well-directed by Susie Jones and consisting of musicians from the Pacific Northwest--performed at the 2007 IAJE Conference ...

Luis Bonilla: Terminal Clarity: Live at the Jazz Gallery

by Laurel Gross
February 7, 2008

During its first seconds, Trombonilla's Terminal Clarity: Live at the Jazz Gallery sounds like a band tuning up or a bit of traffic gridlock with an impatient honk or two. But then it advances full swing into an enjoyable post-bop exploration worthy of intent listening. Luis Bonilla, a talented and focused New York-based ...

The All Ear Trio: Boiler

by Robert Iannapollo
February 7, 2008

Although born in Denmark, the peripatetic John Tchicai has been a true citizen of the world in his forty-plus years of performing. He has resided in various parts of the globe and been a willing collaborator with everyone from West African drum ensembles to electronic mavens Spring Heel Jack. But periodically, he seems to go back ...

Dominic Duval Trio at Roots in Sea Cliff Long Island on February, 6 2008

February 6, 2008

David Murray: Black Saint

by Russ Musto
February 6, 2008

The most widely recorded saxophonist of his generation, David Murray's brawny tenor has been heard in a dizzying array of configurations: solo recitals, piano-less trios, duets with pianists and drummers; with the World Saxophone Quartet and his own quintets, sextets and octets; fronting big bands and orchestras with string sections and Afro-Cuban percussion ensembles; in the ...

Jon Gordon: Within Worlds

by Ken Dryden
February 6, 2008

Jon Gordon is easily one of the top alto saxophonists of his generation. He is well-versed in bop, though his eleventh CD as a leader (and second for ArtistShare) covers a lot of new ground, compiling music from several different sessions and focusing exclusively on his stimulating originals. His quintet session with pianist ...

Ryan Blotnick: Music Needs You

by Marcia Hillman
February 6, 2008

Guitarist Ryan Blotnick is on a journey of exploration on this, his first CD. All of the compositions are his originals with one exception--a ballad by alto saxophonist Pete Robbins. Blotnick is accompanied on this journey by Robbins as well as Albert Sanz (piano), Perry Wortman (bass) and Joe Smith (drums), a quintet that was assembled ...

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Dream Garden

by Jeff Stockton
February 6, 2008

They used to say that everyone who bought the first Velvet Underground record must have started a band. In time, we may come to realize that every jazz musician who moved into the area of World Music first caught the bug from Don Cherry's Mu, Brown Rice, or any of the other number of globally-minded records ...

Grupo Los Santos: Lo Que Somos Lo Que Sea

by Ernest Barteldes
February 5, 2008

Grupo Los Santos is a New York-based group that successfully looks at Latin and Brazilian jazz from an American point of view. The result is a mixed sonic bag that allows influences from funk and East Coast jazz into the music without compromising the general sound and feel. At their CD release concert ...

Yale Strom: Borsht with Bread, Brothers

by Elliott Simon
February 5, 2008

Based largely on his many visits to Eastern Europe, violinist Yale Strom paints pictures in his music, writings and films of a pre-WWII shtetl music scene where Gypsy (Rom) and Jewish musicians slipped in and out of each other's traveling bands. This porous musical culture resulted in many of the tunes on Hot Pstromi's Borsht with ...