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The Sean Nowell Quintet: Firewerks
by Phil DiPietro
Sean Nowell is a virtual unknown who became known to me virtually through the socio-musical phenomenon known as MySpace. Nowell and his quintet have succeeded at melding, morphing and mixing the best of Blue Note-era small-group nirvana with the Headhunters' pocket and vibe, evolving it to right now. This is not merely attributable to great writing ...
Andre Fernandes: Timbuktu
by Phil DiPietro
Andre Fernandes Timbuktu ToneofaPitch 2006 Jazztimes has taken to publishing an annual “Power Index" of the most powerful figures in jazz, including in it only those musicians who hold sway with major labels or big, building-based institutions. Enter 2007 and the new, web-savvy, music business and my own ...
David Gilmore: Getting To The Point
by Phil DiPietro
Sometimes, a series of small disparate observations dovetail to produce incredulity, stupefaction and even anger. Here we go. Have you noticed that Nat Hentoff has set off a bit not his first bit) of controversy with his December 2001 “Final Chorus , which can be found on the last page of every issue of Jazz Times. ...
Phil DiPietro's Top Ten Releases and Top Dozen Sideman Appearances in 2006
by Phil DiPietro
2006 marked a new paradigm in the jazz marketplace; that is, it's absolutely level, as evidenced by the death (ok, massive downsizing) of the record label, the utter inconsequence of (non-electronic) distributors, and that “going out of business" sign on your friendly, neighborhood rekkid sto'. It's high time the end-of-year jazz list also level the playing ...
Francesco Guaiana: Clouds in Motion
by Phil DiPietro
There's not much information out there about one of 2002's finest recordings, NoJaz, by a talented young group led by our man-of-the-moment, guitarist Francesco Guaiana, hailing from Palermo, Sicily. A diamond in the vast mine of indie jazz, its virtuosically painted inside/outside-isms are tethered to an ECM folk aesthetic. Four years later, we have a solo ...
Massimo: Mind Over Matter
by Phil DiPietro
Massimo Mind Over Matter Masfusion Productions 2006 It's always exciting to uncover a surprising new talent--the kid who comes out of nowhere. Hailing from Philly by way of Italy, Massimo DeAngelis (who prefers to be known as “Massimo"), at 40-plus no young kid perhaps, arrives as prog-fusion drumming's newest gun ...
David Gilmore: Unified Presence
by Phil DiPietro
David Gilmore Unified Presence RKM Records 2006 Let's break it down. You won't find this statement in David Gilmore's bio or on his website, but here it is: Gilmore is one of the baddest guitarists on the planet. Here's why--rhythmic acuity. If I were to write a book on jazz, ...
Mario Franco: This Life
by Phil DiPietro
Sometimes a disc comes from out of left field that's so good, it makes you drop not only everything you're listening to, but a few other things you shouldn't. Wherever these records come from, you want to go there--and they just take you. Such is the case with this release from Mário Franco, ...
Cory Combs featuring John Hollenbeck and Dan Willis: Valencia
by Phil DiPietro
Cory Combs featuring John Hollenbeck and Dan Willis Valencia Evander Music 2006 One of 2006's finest slices of modern jazz has been turned in by a high school music teacher! Cory Combs teaches in San Francisco's Mission District, at a school on Valencia Street, where he says we ...
Oli Rockberger: Hush Now
by Phil DiPietro
At 25, Oli Rockberger has made short work of the distance from his London birthplace to Boston's Berklee School of Music, where he earned every formal accolade they could hand him. Like the two most precocious new whiz-kid pianists singing “jazz today, Jamie Cullum and Nellie McKay, Rockberger's pedigree originates across the pond, but that--along with ...
