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Melody Diachun: EQ
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Many critics love to debate if a record is jazz or pop or funk. However, many excellent recording and performing artists are sometimes either genre-bending or genre-defying. Besides, to serious fans of the art, there is either good music or bad music--that which is worth listening to or that which is eminently forgettable. Among the sea ...
Puentes Brothers: Morumba Cubana
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Thanks to a recently concluded distribution deal with Ryko in the United States, the smaller Canadian label, Alma will be releasing some of its wonderful catalogue to discerning American and worldwide listeners. Some of this features relatively older recordings, like Puentes Brothers' Morumba Cubana (Alma, 2000). Listeners will soon see it was well worth the wait. ...
Jake Langley: Movin' & Groovin'
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It would be wholly inappropriate to say that guitarist Jake Langley “as arrived." In fact, he arrived a long time ago and makes up one third of one of two working bands that Hammond B3 master, Joey DeFrancesco takes on the road. On Movin' & Groovin' DeFrancesco and drummer, Byron Landham return the favor. It is ...
Vito Rezza and 5 after 4: Drums of Avila
by Raul d'Gama Rose
One conundrum that bedevils the jazz music industry is that oftentimes a critically acclaimed artist may not necessarily be as well known as he or she should. The work of Vito Rezza bears testimony to this unseemly fact. For instance, Drums of Avila (Alma 2004), now being reissued for the US market in 2008 is Vito ...
Michael Occhipinti: The Sicilian Jazz Project
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Michael Occhipinti The Sicilian Jazz ProjectTrue North Records2008 It is a fact of history that modern music can be traced to the seven-note diatonic scale (do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti)--solffeggio--that came into existence when the Benedictine monk, Guido of Arrezo created its scale. He did so ingeniously, by nominating syllables from the ...
James Danderfer Group: Accelerated Development
by Raul d'Gama Rose
For those who thought that the development of modern clarinet repertoire ended with the last release of Eddie Daniels, think again. James Danderfer's Accelerated Development gives notice that new possibilities for the clarinet are on their way again. What's more, with the nine charts that he has written, Danderfer has, also creates a harmonic palette of ...
Cory Weeds: Big Weeds
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Big Weeds could well herald the return of the big, bad saxophone. Its protagonist, Cory Weeds, blazes his masterful way through a monstrous set, alternating on tenor and alto. And in one fell swoop, Weeds joins the ranks of the instrument's great storytellers. On tenor he is as bold and dramatic as Dexter Gordon and Sonny ...
Frank Kimbrough: Air
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a haunting quality to Frank Kimbrough's solo piano record, Air. There is only one other solo piano record that has this overall effect on the listener, and that is Keith Jarrett's The Melody at Night, with You (ECM, 1998). Jarrett's program on that disc is very different--mainly ballads and standards--while Kimbrough's strikes out on ...
Jane Fair Quartet: Chances Are - Recorded Live in Vancouver
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jane Fair Quartet Chances Are - Recorded Live in Vancouver Cellar Live2007 It is typically Canadian, ironic and inexplicable, that an artist so accomplished and so polished as saxophonist Jane Fair should have had the opportunity to record just three records that we know of: The Jane ...
Don Pullen: Ode to the Life Lived
by Raul d'Gama Rose
He is being carried on wings, a Black Icarus, further up, higher than the sun, so the wings will not fail this time. They carry him and the fingers of his left--and all those mad block chords from God knows where--and his right hand--running along the ebony and ivory keys drawing clusters of notes ...
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