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Jimmy Herring: The Lifeboat Sessions and More
by Phil DiPietro
Jimmy Herring has transitioned from an underground favorite to one of America's elite guitarists. The resume is now a dream, progressing from GIT to ARU, Frogwings to the Allman Brothers, Jazz is Dead to Phil Lesh and then on to the real thing--the actual Dead, if you will. Herring is the archetype for the melody-drenched lead ...
Leo Genovese: Unlocked
by Phil DiPietro
Boston takes pride in it's stature as one of those old Yankee towns where it's tough to establish a foothold--a place where it takes three generations to break into an old neighborhood. While it's brimming with young jazz talent, the majority make the most of the locally rigorous musical pedagogy before making haste for ...
Dominique di Piazza: Princess Sita
by Phil DiPietro
With the release of this first “real" solo album, Dominique di Piazza crowns one of the most remarkable jazz comebacks in recent memory. Seventeen years ago di Piazza was tapped by guitarist John McLaughlin to take part in his still-evolving rotation of the world's greatest electric bassists. A year later, di Piazza's career path diverged completely, ...
Rebecca Martin: The Growing Season
by Phil DiPietro
Rebecca Martin's name keeps showing up in the jazz press, but she's more appropriately classified as one of the best singer/songwriters today. She's issued sessions heavy on standards, specifically 2002's Middlehope (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2004), and sung them lately with drummer Paul Motian, garnering her deserved high praise. But as stunning and personal as her ...
Gaetano Partipilo: The Right Place
by Phil DiPietro
Finding himself at The Right Place, the 33-year-old altoist Gaetano Partipilo shows he's an Italian up-and-comer as exciting as pianist Stefano Bollini or trombonist Gianluca Petrella, with whom he first co-emerged on their recording Up, Up with the Jazz Convention (Schema, 1997). Partipilo is a complete-game player whose tone and phraseology is an exciting amalgam of ...
Francois Corneloup: NExT
by Phil DiPietro
The French saxophonist Francois Corneloup is a baritone/soprano saxophone specialist and a forty-something wild man deserving wider recognition. Last year's release of the U.L.M. Trio recording, with fellow French firecracker Marc Ducret on guitar and the capaciously capable drummer Martin France of Britain, deservedly raised his international profile. This release, falling into the avant-groove category inhabited ...
Tony Grey: Chasing Shadows
by Phil DiPietro
Tony Grey Chasing Shadows Abstract Logix 2008 It seems much less than four years ago that electric bassist Tony Grey released his scintillating debut, ...Moving, which excelled most in the way the writing highlighted the talents of each colorist the leader added to his expansive palette, however formidable ...
Francisco Pais Quintet: School Of Enlightenment
by Phil DiPietro
31 year-old guitarist Francisco Pais is a lyrically-minded jazzer hailing from Portugal, now living in Boston, possessing a refreshing approach and sound. He follows up his outstanding 2006 debut with a release that further codifies and focuses his concept, preferring color to line, distillate to volume, and restraint to abandon, yet pulsating with a sumptuous passion ...
Tim Miller: Trio Vol. 2
by Phil DiPietro
Tim Miller Trio Vol. 2 Avenir Records 2008 Very few guitarists have digested, head-on, the daunting influence of Alan Holdsworth, and then assimilated it into their own playing. Fewer still have combined Holdsworth's no-longer-futuristic linearity with the science of melodic chord permutation, as promulgated by the likes of George Van ...
Giacomo Merega, David Tronzo, Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things
by Phil DiPietro
David Tronzo is more than a master of jazz slide guitar and world rhythms, panethnic to microethnic. He's a magician that can conjure music from thin air, literally improvising between the notes, at least those commonly used in western music. Mathematically, there are about 479 million combinations of the 12 tones of the western scale—Tronzo's opened ...
