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Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets ...
Coto Pincheira: The Sonido Moderno Project
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Coto Pincheira, as Julio Alejandro Pincheira Cubillos prefers being called, has made an enthusiastic impression with The Sonido Moderno Project, literally, the Modern Sound Project. This virtuoso pianist, to whom clave comes naturally, has attempted to pour this rollicking backbeat into a cauldron set alight by the vast number of Afro-Caribbean metaphors and rhythms. The result ...
Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The release of this 1971 recording of Revolutionary Ensemble's Vietnam ought to have a special significance. Two wars are being fought, and the children of many families are being put in harm's way. The “stamping out the terrorism" that violently assaulted the USA provides justifiable reason for conflict. Still the specter of Vietnam looms large. Almost ...
Jean-Nicholas Trottier: Quartet
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If anyone has learned Roswell Rudd's remarkable lesson in the infinitely mammalian voice simulations possible on the trombone, it's Jean-Nicholas Trottier. Quartet, Trottier's small ensemble record--earlier in 2009 he released his first, big band record--features the trombonist in almost splendid isolation, with only saxophonist Alexandre Côtè in play. Along with bassist Sébastien Pellerin and drummer Michel ...
Leanne Weatherly: Go and Find
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Go and Find is appropriately named by its chanteuse, Leanne Weatherly. The artist is indeed a find. She has rare and complete mastery over her voice that lopes like a gazelle. She can make it hover in somber depths and soar joyful and unfettered into a stratospheric orbit, creating something between goose bumps on the back ...
Min Rager: First Steps
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is not often that a woman is given much elbowroom in contemporary music, no matter how good she may be. However, when she is as good as Min Rager on First Steps, more than elbowroom had better be made for her and her piano. True, Rager has been preceded by a celestial pantheon of female ...
Jonas Knutsson/Mats Oberg: Live
by Raul d'Gama Rose
An alluring aspect of this record, even before the first notes are heard is that it is simply titled Live. Expectation is enormous. It is a “live" record. What will happen? The elasticity of the jazz idiom fills the musical prospect with great expectation. Finally, performing on this record are the magnificent Swedish saxophonist, Jonas Knutsson ...
David Widelock Trio: Skating on the Sidewalk
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Skating on the Sidewalk is a record where myriad disparate musically idiomatic journeys collide with dash and splash on the concrete of urban modernity. It is a musical journey that begins from so many directions --the spare blue sogginess of the Delta, multi-hued blue New Orleans, and blue and windy Chicago. There is also a trip ...
Anson Wright & Tim Gilson: Ukiah's Lullaby
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The two men, guitarist, Anson Wright and bassist, Tim Gilson enjoy a special relationship. Most duos are close-knit units. In a few very special instances, the two musicians thrive on something uncannily telepathetic. For instance, they will complete each other's phrases without missing a beat or a phrase. Whether they enter behind or on the beat ...
Jon Gordon: Evolution
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Evolution, from saxophonist and composer, Jon Gordon, is a fine record. It sparkles with mature ideas, unbridled creativity, and soul-searching profundity. There is also polished musicianship throughout. This is where the special quality of the music of this record lies--that it is not just built on an ediface of ideas suggested by its title, but on ...
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