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Daniel Smith: Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues
by Hrayr Attarian
It is rare that a jazz album comes with laugh out loud moments but bassoonist Daniel Smith's Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues is full of them. Unfortunately these do not appear to be intentional humorous attempts merely risibly poor performances. This is a shame as Smith is both an accomplished musician and a jazz connoisseur ...
Steven Lugerner: Jericho and San Francisco
by Daniel Lehner
Eric Dolphy once mused, “When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again." Luckily for fellow multi-reedist Steve Lugerner, that's a piece of wisdom that the Bay Area musician did not take at face value. For his release, For We Have Heard, Lugerner devised a means of ...
Rufus Reid: Quiet Pride
by Dan Bilawsky
The beauty of art is often in the taking rather than the making. The art may come to life in the mind of the artist but it often flourishes when the ink dries, the chisel is withdrawn, the dust has settled, or the final brushstrokes have been applied. At that point, the preparation ends and the ...
Apollo, Harlem Stage And Jazzmobile Announce Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest Schedule
The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Present Fourth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4-10 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival The Prestige of the Past... the Pulse of the Present HARLEM, USA, February 19, 2014 – When the Harlem Renaissance was in vogue at the dawn of the 20th Century, the jazz clubs around Jungle Alley, ...
"Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60" Tour Stops At Jazz Standard, March 4-8
NEWPORT, RI: In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the world- renowned Newport Jazz Festival® (August 1-3, 2014), the “Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60” Tour makes a stop in New York City at the Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, March 4-8. Featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, vocalist/pianist Karrin Allyson, bassist Ben Allison, pianist Peter Martin, guitarist ...
Mary Halvorson - Michael Formanek - Tomas Fujiwara: Thumbscrew
by Glenn Astarita
Kindred musical spirits unite on this composers' cooperative, featuring three musicians who have been forerunners and antagonists of new-fangled directions in the avant-garde jazz spectrum, other than ripping into customary modern jazz fare with a vengeance. The artists' divergent discographies offer a worldly testament to these aspects, besides their work as first-call session aces. With Michael ...
Peter Evans - Nate Wooley - Jim Black - Paul Lytton: Trumpets and Drums Live in Ljubljana
by Vincenzo Roggero
Due trombe, due batterie. Formazione perlomeno insolita, potenzialmente esplosiva sia ritmicamente che timbricamente, dalle limitate possibilità combinatorie, con un'energia che l'esibizione live dovrebbe liberare in quantità industriali. Ma il disco registrato a Lubiana nel giugno 2012--quello nella capitale slovena è festival tra i più stimolanti, propositivi e meglio organizzati del Vecchio Continente--non va in questa direzione, ...
Mike Davis: Fortunes and Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2
by Eyal Hareuveni
Double bassist Mike Davis organizes his spontaneous, immediate improvisations-compositions according to two arbitrary guidelines. The Fortunes group of such compositions draw its inspiration from evocative song titles taken from about 100 fortune cookies, but Davis and his trio co-conspirators--saxophonist Jacob Duncan and drummer Jason Tiemann--never discuss their different interpretations of these titles before playing. The second ...
Twins of El Dorado: Portend the End
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il duo newyorchese (di Brooklyn, per l'esattezza) Twins of El Dorado sposa un abbinamento decisamente inusuale: voce e tromba. In questo album, inciso nel febbraio 2012, convergono composizioni (con l'elasticità che si deve usare in questi casi, dove l'improvvisazione gioca un ruolo assolutamente centrale) dovute ai due performer, con le eccezioni di “Fare Thee," la cui ...
Ulysses Owens Jr.: Of Odysseys And Evolution
by Dan Bilawsky
The back panel of drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s Onward & Upward is adorned with a telling quote from spiritual teacher/writer Ernest Holmes. His statement, that “evolution is proof of an irresistible urge which pushes everything onward and upward," could be applied to myriad topics, but it truly captures the essence of jazz drumming through time; it ...
