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Hilario Duran and his Latin Jazz Big Band: From the Heart
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Hilario Duran and his Latin Jazz Big Band From the Heart Alma Records 2008 Anyone who heard the explosive band put together by multi-instrumentalist Arturo Sandoval shortly after he broke away from the seemingly indivisible Irakere would probably remember the ubiquitous young gentleman at the piano. He was the one ...
Joey DeFrancesco, Guido Basso, Lorne Lofsky, Vito Rezza: One Take, Volume One
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Joey DeFrancesco, Guido Basso, Lorne Lofsky, Vito Rezza One Take, Volume One Alma Records 2008 The beauty of jazz is that it is music containing the sound of surprise. Most jazz musicians only plan what they are going to play, not how they are going to play it. So it ...
Jane Bunnett: Embracing Voices
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jane Bunnett Embracing Voices EMI Canada/Blue Note 2008 Jane Bunnett is never afraid to push the envelope. She did so with her 1988 album, In Dew Time, the now out-of-print vinyl that was produced privately by the Toronto imprint, Dark Light, on which producer, husband and trumpet/flugelhorn player ...
Toronto Jazz Festival 2008
by Raul d'Gama Rose
I will never forget my excitement--years ago--at learning that it would be possible for my family to live in Toronto again. I had been researching a book on Charles Mingus and often listened to one of my favorite vinyl records--The World's Greatest Concert--Jazz at Massey Hall. Not only was it a gem because of the dream ...
Arcoluz
by Raul d'Gama Rose
> Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio ArcoluzEnja/Justin Time2005 Bassist Renaud Garcia Fons hears music polyphonically--in using this term, it is hoped that you will “read" it as the Greeks had intended it to be understood: as music “having many sounds or voices." Listening to almost any of the music ...
Alma Records: Getting to the Essence of Jazz
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jazz has been listened to and played in Canada arguably as early as it evolved from the blues. The recorded history of jazz in Canada dates back to 1917, when the New Orleans Quintet, Original Dixieland Jazz Band first recorded Sheldon Brooks' “Darktown Strutters' Ball." Then for 41 years there was virtually no recording activity although ...
Sebastien Paindestre Trio: Parcours
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Sebastien Paindestre can communicate with unbridled impressionism and also swing and bop like mad. These are what make this trio record, Parcours, such a memorable experience. The title suggests “wandering" or “wanderlust," depending on how you view the grammar of the music. You would think that it is courageous to make a trio record--piano, bass and ...
Brandi Disterheft: Debut
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Brandi Disterheft Debut Superfran Records 2007 While the rest of the world was talking about Esperanza Spaulding another bassist has been busy making a quiet noise, in a voice all her own. Brandi Disterheft's mature bass playing--both pizzicato and arco--and her ability to write original material and arrange ...
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio Abaton La Huit 2007 Of all absolutely modern chamber music artists, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier perhaps comes closest to imitating the pirouettes, the leaps, the twists and turns of dancers' bodies. When she plays, her hands cross over as if the bodies of dancers were intertwined. ...
David Virelles: Motion
by Raul d'Gama Rose
David Virelles Motion Justin Time Records 2008 Of all the fine new musicians to come out of Cuba in the last 5 or ten years, one of the most prodigiously talented is the pianist and composer, David Virelles. He began to study music formally at 7 years of ...
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