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Gabrielle Ducomble: J'ai Deux Amours
by Bruce Lindsay
Belgian singer Gabrielle Ducomble began her recording career in 2003, after reaching the finale of French television's Pop Idol. After hearing Dee Dee Bridgewater Ducomble started to move towards jazz, relocated to London and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. So, while J'ai Deux Amours is not her first recording, it is her ...
Eclectica!: Flight Of Fancy
by Bruce Lindsay
Eclectica! is a European string quartet that brings together four exceptional musicians from the realms of jazz and classical music. Flight Of Fancy, the band's second album, continues with its fusion of musical genres, mixing classical, pop and original tunes in a beautifully performed collection. String quartet is an accurate description of Eclectica!, ...
Journey
Label: MGP Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Sunrise; Journey; Mountain Baba; Silent Lands; Summit; Promenade in the Lantern Garden; Marble Dance; Sunset.
Breeze
Label: MGP Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Andalucia; Breeze; Yuz; Body and Soul; Lavender; Autumn Leaves; Spain; Senses; Countdown; Triart; Sharing.
Asaf Sirkis: Letting Go
by Ian Patterson
The quiet evolution of drummer Asaf Sirkis as a composer has been fascinating to behold and almost as beguiling as his playing. The confluence of influences that give shape to his rhythms--Middle Eastern, Indian and jazz--combined with a love of Sun Ra's music and an interest in astronomy, results in music which is difficult to pin ...
Nicolas Meier Trios: Breeze
by Bruce Lindsay
Breeze is a guitar trio album. To be more precise, it's a Trios album--a combination of original tunes and standards being performed by acoustic and electric bands. The result is an imaginative and creative recording that further establishes Nicolas Meier's reputation as one of the finest guitarists on the contemporary jazz scene. Most ...
Nicolas Meier: Journey
by Bruce Lindsay
Swiss-born, UK-based guitarist Nicolas Meier dedicates Journey to his wife Songul, for sharing “this beautiful life journey" with him. Thematically, the eight tunes can readily be viewed as representing such a journey--but it is equally successful in evoking a single day's walk through a beautiful and mysterious landscape, with Meier's band members as fellow travelers.
Nicolas Meier: Journey
by Chris May
Turkish music and jazz make compatible bedfellows, so it's curious that congress takes place so infrequently outside Turkey. In the late 1950s, pianist Dave Brubeck combined Turkish 9/8 rhythm patterns with classical rondo form and the blues to create “Blue Rondo A La Turk" on Time Out (Columbia, 1959). In the 1980s, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel ...
Journey
Label: MGP Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sunrise; Journey; Mountain Baba; Silent Lands; Summit; Promenade In The Lantern Garden; Marble Dance; Sunset.
Silence Talks
Label: Naim Label
Released: 2008
Track listing: October in Ankara (Ankara'da Ekim); Silence Talks (Sessizlik Konusuyor); Turquoise; Deja Vu; Dance of the Rain (Yagnurun Dansi); Deniz's Love (Deniz'in Sevgisi); A Rose in the Pyrenees.
