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Amanda Tosoff: Wait and See
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It did not take long for Amanda Tosoff to crack open the door of recognition. It took just two records, to be precise. Wait And See has an almost delightfully tongue-in-cheek ring to it, as Tosoff appears to be heralding an arrival and recognition as a composer, pianist and bandleader all in one--and she may as ...
HAR-YOU Percussion Group: Sounds of Youth
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The 1964 events that led to the creation of the HAR-YOU project and the formation of the HAR-YOU Percussion Group out of the Harlem Youth Act were the stuff of legend: consider, for instance, the fortuitous meeting of extraordinarily talented bassist and Charles Mingus student Julien Euell, in his incarnation as Executive Director of the Arts ...
Denny Zeitlin Trio: In Concert
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The art of the trio--piano, bass and drums--is an especially challenging prospect when considering that all three instruments play an essentially rhythmic role in almost any form of music. Thus, utilizing the harmonic extent of those instruments precludes extraordinary understanding of the finite possibilities of each with a view to extending these into the realm of ...
Marcin & Bartlomeij Brat Oles: Duo
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The unexpected should be expected at the very visual that heralds the package of Duo by the twin brothers, Marcin Oles (bass) and Bartlomeij Brat Oles (drums). It suggests complete and utter deconstruction--from destruction to reconstruction--in the strongest possible way. The prospect of rippling water, suggesting the infinite, together with the circles within circles harking to ...
Adam Glasser: Free at First
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Of all the harmonica players who have followed in the footsteps of legendary harmonicist Jean “Toots" Thielemans' wizardry, Adam Glasser may be the only proponent of this instrument--so little used that it only features in the “Miscellaneous" instruments lexicon of jazz discography and literature--who has brought a truly unique voice and idiom to the constantly evolving ...
Roberto Occhipinti: A Bend in the River
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A dark vision of the world and this time is, perhaps, the most accurate one today. So when an account of artists' contributions to raising the world's level of awareness is written, bassist Roberto Occhipinti's fine A Bend in the River will rank as one with the clearest reflection of that vision. Of course none of ...
Paul Bley: Barrage
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Music performed by Paul Bley is always an event of great import--no matter where or when, or in what context it is performed. But with Barrage this was the roaring '60s. Charlie Parker, who had set the world on fire, had left a meteoric legacy and in the after-burn came the smoldering avant-garde. Ornette Coleman may ...
Chris Davis: A Night Remembered
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The air is charged, not the least because the trumpet player displays remarkable chops. Add to that the fact that his band is right there with him--the saxophonist, trombonist, pianist, bassist and drummer. This is not just any live recording; it is the debut of the fine Florida-born-Vancouver-based trumpeter, Chris Davis on A Night Remembered. Once ...
Greg Reitan: Some Other Time
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The notes he strikes--ebony and ivory--stay interminably in the memory, hanging life-like and sensuously, fully laden on the canopy that crowns the mind's mind. Ideas abound and spring forth--even down the choruses of well-worn standards--and they sparkle end-to-end on Cole Porter's “All of You," Guaraldi's “Star Song," and on Bernstein's “Some Other Time," the title song, ...
Lejazzetal: A Collision of Cultures with Jazz
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are those who might call Dave Kelbie a dreamer, wearing somewhat the John Lennon persona in “Imagine." After all he forms Lejazzetal, a London-based artist's collaborative work-in-progress that promotes live jazz, conjures up the spirit of Basin Street wherever in the world a (Lejazzetal) concert may happen to create a scene--from London and Paris to ...
