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Waking Vision Trio: The Ancient Bloom
by Phil DiPietro
Anyone routinely familiar with the world of pop music today knows that the stars are getting younger and younger, yet being presented as somehow older and older; you know, the boy bands, the girl bands, the little brothers and little sisters of the little boys and the little girls in the boy bands and the girl ...
Dean Brown: Here
by Phil DiPietro
During my youth in Boston I was blessed to have witnessed its most fertile output (or was it throughput) of jazz guitarists in its history. From 1976 through around 1984, a handful of clubs that charged nominal or no cover played host, on any given night, to one or more of the following list of jazz ...
Kudu: Kudu
by Phil DiPietro
Kudu is a supremely talented outfit that, believe me, is not long destined for the intimate venues where they presently can be so heartily enjoyed. Sylvia Gordon (very young, no integers assigned to females) is a powerful, sultry songstress that recalls some our current-day bohemiam R and B soulqueens, while, quite thankfully, lacking their their thinness ...
Oteil Burbridge: Making Peace
by Phil DiPietro
Oteil Burbridge is most famous in the world of rock'n'roll, as the southern rock-bassist's bassist, locking down the groove with a pick and a P-Bass like the Allman's founding master of that groove, Berry Oakley. Oteil is most renowned for his role as a core member and virtuoso bassist on the jamband scene, and ...
Gene Lake: Steppin' Up
by Phil DiPietro
With his self-produced debut , “Steppin Up", Gene lake does just that-putting himself out on the solo artist limb, after spending the 90's turning in nothing short of exemplary sideman (there's that word again) work. Let's get the “sideman" credits straight, shall we? First off, I contend that anyone holding down the drum chair in Steve ...
LiveArt/Jonathan Townes: This is Secret Music
by Phil DiPietro
For the modern-day jazzman, ascertaining the mix of criteria summing up to success is becoming increasingly difficult. Should units sold, the profile of the gig, the numbers in attendance at performances, the quality and global reach of distribution of the recordings or, (perish the thought) the quality of the reviews received be the inches in yardstick? ...
David Gilmore: Ritualism
by Phil DiPietro
Exciting times are upon us, not only here at allaboutjazz but in the broader marketplace, as jazz consumers. An increasing number of vital musicians, heretofore best known as relatively high profile “idemen" who, in fact, by those who know their work, are more akin to equal contributors to the projects to which they have chosen to ...
Matthew Garrison: Matthew Garrison
by Phil DiPietro
In the world of improvisatory music, the releases which spellbind are those which simultaneously are at the cutting edge and hit extremely deep on an emotional level compositionally, while at the same time throw down the gauntlet in terms of the pure technical level of virtuosity on display by the instrumentalist who is the leader of ...
Ben Monder: Excavation
by Phil DiPietro
Ben Monder has been referred to as a young “unsung hero" or a “new young lion" of jazz guitar, terms which no longer suit him. Not many unsung heroes have a discography as long as your arm , with three records released under their own name (on another, he was co-billed as a leader with vocalist ...
Nat Janoff: Looking Through
by Phil DiPietro
I must confess, it was only by chance that I stumbled upon the fact that this recording had been released and had to do some detective work to obtain a review copy. To my knowledge, this review is an allaboutjazz exclusive, and for a release displaying musicianship of this caliber, I do not take that responsibility ...
