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Ben Wolfe: My Kinda Beautiful
by Brian P. Lonergan
The liner notes to bassist/composer Ben Wolfe's My Kinda Beautiful refer to the record's “cinematic scape and the handiness of describing its music “in images. Many of the nineteen tracks do sound remarkably like they could accompany scenes from films, though they're not linked by a reference to a single dramatic arc. The result is a ...
Gregg August: Late August
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Bassist Gregg August's pedigree is hard bop, and his trademark compositions have heads that examine every harmonic and melodic possibility and are almost stories unto themselves. His sextet recently played a lively set at New York's Fat Cat, and a few of the tunes they performed are featured on August's new album, the somewhat self-titled Late ...
Reuben Radding: Intersections
by Jeff Stockton
Reuben Radding has had to take initiative to get his music heard before. Luminescence, a recording of duets performed with multi-reedist Daniel Carter, was shopped around and ultimately released by AUM Fidelity in 2002; it gave off a do-it-himself scent that carries over to Intersections, the first release on the bassist's own Pine Ear Music label. ...
The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission
by Brian P. Lonergan
The Omer Avital Group was a mainstay at New York's Smalls club in the mid '90s. An unfortunate turn of events with record companies suppressed the bassist/composer's major label debut, and in recent years Avital has spent more time working and studying in his native Israel. But with the release of Asking No Permission and a ...
Monk
by Suzanne Lorge
Rome Neal/Laurence Holder Monk DVD; 90 minutes 2005 Pianist Thelonious Monk cut an elusive figure throughout his public life as an innovator of early bebop. The very mystery surrounding Monk as a personality is what makes the one-man play Monk, now available on DVD, compelling viewing. The ...
Various: Jazz Is Love: Timeless Songs For Lovers
by Andrew Velez
This mix of fifteen sides from the '50s and '60s is studded with gems, mostly from our greatest songwriters--the likes of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, each offering an enduringly upbeat report from the trenches of love. Most of the artists are now gone, but very much worth remembering or becoming newly acquainted with. ...
Mark Colby: Speaking of Stan
by Elliott Simon
Almost fifteen years after the death of tenor saxophonist Stanley Gayetzky, aka Stan Getz, the sheer breadth of his musical accomplishments still boggles the mind. Thus it was with some skepticism that I began to listen to Speaking of Stan, tenor man Mark Colby's tribute to the man about whom Trane said, “Let's face it. We ...
Barry Harris: A Thousand Percent Music Man
by Andrew Velez
During a recent conversation, Barry Harris (75) was asked about his plans for the future. It evoked an instantaneous explosion of laughter from him before he replied, “Don't ask me that! The life I lead is the life I lead. The recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University, in person Dr. Harris is a physically ...
Spooky Actions: Quartet for the End of Time
by Ty Cumbie
The young Olivier Messiaen famously composed and premiered “Quartet for the End of Time in 1940-41 as a prisoner of the Nazis during World War II. One can apply just about as much meaningful drama to this story as one wants. It has even been suggested that Messiaen defeated the Nazis, in spirit at least, with ...
Various Artists: Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by Ernest Barteldes
On September 17, 2005, Jazz at Lincoln Center brought together an ensemble of musicians responding to Wynton Marsalis' call to stage a benefit for victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The document of that event is this CD, in which well-known mainstream stars share the stage with more obscure names, performing modern and traditional jazz, folk, ...
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