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Chantale Gagne: Wisdom of the Water
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Chantale Gagné has adopted what seems to be the perfect persona for her album, Wisdom of the Water. The young, Montreal-based pianist appears here as an almost childlike water sprite, a naiad, who sometimes mixes fun with erudition too. This is a perfect persona for the metaphor that is brought to fruition as it rushes and ...
The David Liebman Trio: Lieb Plays the Blues a la Trane
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are few artists who can channel the spiritual fervour of John Coltrane better than Dave Liebman. Liebman was so deeply moved by Trane, that it took him two decades to renew a commitment to revisiting the legendary saxophonist's work. Liebman was so completely under Trane's spell that, by his own admission, it was like having ...
Diego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Trumpeter Diego Urcola's is a voice that has remained somewhat hidden--certainly tucked away--for two decades in Paquito D'Rivera's quintet. And then there is the subdued role he has played in Guillermo Klein's fabulous larger ensemble, Los Guachos. However, the graceful candor of his voice is irrepressible, and it was only a matter of time before he ...
David Caceres: David Caceres
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Comparisons are odious, and can certainly lead to bias. Moreover, in the case of David Caceres, they simply do not capture the immense character that holds together the artistry of this astounding musician. True, Caceres channels Donny Hathaway, and can wind up closing in on the soaring falsetto of Stevie Wonder, but his phrasing is quite ...
Majid Khaliq: The Basilisk
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There was once a school of thought that championed, zealot-like, the cause of the violin. To them there was no more perfect instrument than the four-stringed wonder that supports a fretless arm and offers infinite possibilities of melody; one that all but brought to life myriad human emotions via harmonic invention. Were this league of extraordinary ...
Ben Wolfe Quintet: Live at Small's
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ben Wolfe is a commanding presence beside the gravitational weight of his bass violin. On Live at Smalls, Wolfe brings something of the fabled Charles Mingus' authority and leadership to his own quintet. It had to be so; Wolfe undertakes to have four towering individualists interpret the charts performed on this date at the club that ...
Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Trumpeter, Jacques Coursil's Trails of Tears is quite simply, a monumental undertaking and a major work that ought to bring to light some of the earlier work that comments on colonialism in America, such as the equally important Gorée (Schemp, 1984), from Beaver Harris/Don Pullen 360˚ Experience; that composition itself being a strident dirge about the ...
International Street Cannibals Ensemble: Ballets & Solos
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If Ballets & Solos is any indication, then at least five young composers in the US are breaking barriers between genres and idioms. These young folks are brimful with ideas, humor and humanity, their compositions performed with wildly interesting and improvised cadenzas. The absolute command of melodic and harmonic invention is even more interesting. More than ...
Paul Hubweber / Philip Zoubek: Archiduc Concert: Dansaert Variations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Paul Hubweber's trombone may be pitched in Bb, as all tenor trombones are, an octave below the trumpet, but the trombonist being an itinerant spirit, makes twists and turns of pitch and, therefore, timbre, until he turns his instrument into a chorus of voices. On Archduc Concert : Dansaert Variations Hubweber comes bursting out of the ...
Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Viola and cello have coexisted in splendid harmony on the concert stage for hundreds of years, both instruments bolstering powerful orchestral settings for every composer, even before Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven employed violin and cello in compositions with vivid effect. What delights the inner ear, however, especially on the brazen Fine Extensions, is the fact ...
