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Ferenc Nemeth: Night Songs
by Terrell Kent Holmes
It might surprise that Hungarian-born drummer Ferenc Nemeth makes his debut as a leader with Night Songs. The sophistication and self-assurance of his composing and arranging have the earmarks of a seasoned veteran. Nemeth has assembled a group of musicians with whom he has worked before and who have worked at various times with each other; ...
Luigi Bonafede: Peace
by Martin Gladu
On a sunbathed, at low tide beach above a vast blue sky, fixed in motion, a kid kicks a soccer ball as others await, still in the background. The scene, which graces the cover of Luigi Bonafede's Peace, translates to perfection the duality between movement and stillness in the pianist's music.Here, pensive, rubato ballads ...
Pietro Tonolo: Your Songs - The Music Of Elton John
by Martin Gladu
Who would have thought Elton John's music could resonate into jazzmen's hearts deep enough to dare record a whole album of his songs? Well, whoever or wherever it comes from, a nice melody is a nice melody, one could rightfully retort to the skeptical, frowning few. Saxophonist Pietro Tonolo, a mainstay on the Italian jazz scene, ...
Con Alma
Album: Scenarios
By Andy Milne and Gregoire Maret
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2007
Duration: 6:13
Andy Milne & Gregoire Maret: Scenarios
by Martin Gladu
"[Albums are] like a trailer to the movie... a CD is really a mini-series, declares Canadian pianist/keyboardist Andy Milne. Similar analogies with the Seventh Art are common when it comes time to define and characterize music. On the aptly-titled Scenarios, Milne offers, aided by harmonicist and longtime collaborator Grégoire Maret, a more pictorial approach to musical ...
Ferenc Nemeth: Night Songs
by Mark F. Turner
In the vein of rising kit-masters such as Kendrick Scott, Tyshawn Sorey and Allison Miller, Ferenc Nemeth represents the new breed of post-Art Blakey jazz drummers, ushering in their own bravado and confident leadership. Creating a name may not be Nemeth's primary thrust, but his reverberations cannot be denied on Gilfema (Obliqsound, 2005) and Wheel of ...
Lionel Loueke: Virgin Forest
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Guitarist/singer Lionel Loueke's Virgin Forest blends West African rhythms with standard jazz idioms, boiling down the music to its soul-catching essentials. Loueke sings and scats in Fon and Mina, languages from Benin and Mali, and his vocals and guitar playing are so seductive that one doesn't need to understand either to be drawn in.
Rossignol
Album: Virgin Forest
By Lionel Loueke
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2007
Duration: 5:24
In A Trance
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nonvignon; Benny's Tune; In a Trance; Mivakpola; Gbeto; Fifa; Nagbe; Okagbe;
Be-Nin-Bop; Boum-Boum!!!; Always Will Be; A Prayer for Peace.
