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Florian Hoefner: Luminosity
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il quartetto di Florian Hoefner -origini tedesche, residenza da anni a New York -è con Luminosity alla terza uscita discografica e si sente. L'intesa fra i musicisti è perfetta -Seamus Blake è subentrato a Mike Ruby ma sembra membro del gruppo da sempre -la musica ha la precisione di un orologio svizzero, fluisce senza scossoni e ...
Gary Lucas' "Fleischerei": Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons
by Mark Corroto
The hip kids knew what to look for in those Saturday morning cartoons. It was the early Warner Brothers' animations and the black-and-white Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. Insider jokes, stabs at the government and popular figures, and sexual innuendo were commonplace, even if we didn't quite get the meanings. Each were politically incorrect, before there ...
Aleksandra Denda To Release Her Debut Ep "Dreamer"
LeitmotivArts is thrilled to announce the release of the debut EP Dreamer from Aleksandra Denda available worldwide on March 17th 2016. Two years after having her single “In the Dark" selected as The Song Of The Day on Jon Oliver's The Main Ingredient Radio, Aleksandra releases her debut EP. Dreamer—wonderful patchwork of acoustic and electronic elements, ...
Chris Biesterfeldt: Phineas
by Angelo Leonardi
Un virtuoso come Chris Biesterfeldt non poteva che essere attratto da Phineas Newborn Jr., il pianista che sul finire degli anni cinquanta emerse come l'erede di Art Tatum e Oscar Peterson ma uscì presto di scena per problemi di salute mentale. Nato ad Asheville nel North Carolina ma residente a New York dal ...
I 10 Cd nel CD-Player di... Adam Rudolph
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Alice Coltrane -Journey in Satchidinanda (Impulse! -1971). Uno dei primi LP comprati e ancora uno dei miei preferiti. 02. Yusef Lateefand Adam Rudolph -Live in Seattle (Yal -2014). Benché siano passati diversi anni da questa registrazione con Yusef, vi sento ancora cose nuove. 03. Toru Takemitsu ...
Marcos Varela: San Ygnacio
by Dan McClenaghan
Bassist Marcos Varela, Houston-bred and now New York-based, opens his recording debut, San Ygnacio, with a big, brash version of the standard, “I Should Care." His rhythm section is rounded out by veteran pianist George Cables and drum icon Billy Hart, so a free swinging zest is expected, and delivered. Logan Richardson on alto sax makes ...
Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in 1997 when Introducing Jim Rotondi announced that a major new trumpeter star was on the ascent, few could have predicted how important and prolific Rotondi would become to the mainstream landscape. A foremost stylist in the lineage of Freddie Hubbard and Wood Shaw, Rotondi quickly proved he had absorbed the legacy, only to jettison ...
Ameen Saleem: The Groove Lab
by Alex Franquelli
Composer Irving Berlin once famously said that “everybody ought to have a Lower East Side in their life." True and, although technically speaking Brooklyn is not part of the octagon that thrives between Houston Street and FRD Drive, the groove, that precious intimate rumble of inspiration, is the one element that connects one area with the ...
Renee Rosnes: Written in the Rocks
by C. Andrew Hovan
Always a major talent who has transcended the hokum that usually accompanies the precept of women jazz musicians, pianist Renee Rosnes offers a mature and individualistic touch that has been recorded on far too few occasions over the years. In fact, prior to this fabulous session, Rosnes' last U.S. release was a 2010 duo set with ...
Eileen Howard Releases "Big City Love"--Schedules Release Party at West End Lounge on April 10
Critically acclaimed jazz and blues singer/composer Eileen Howard will release her fifth CD, Big City Love, an eclectic musical tribute to love in, and for, the city, on March 31, 2016. The CD Release party will be on Sunday, April 10, from 4:30- 6:30pm at The West End Lounge, 955 West End Avenue (West End & ...
