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Rick Vito: Slidemaster
by Scott Gudell
Rick Vito is truly a top slide guitarist / USA and he has consistently been a top gun for decades. Vito, as with other State side sliders, including Duane Allman and Ry Cooder plus Brits such as Peter Green and Jeff Beck, were awed by domestic blues guitar master's including Elmore James, Robert Johnson and many ...
Kronos Quartet: Glorious Mahalia
by Scott Gudell
Founded over a half century ago, the Kronos Quartet may look like a classical quartet but time and time again they trick us with their chameleon-like output. They color outside the lines of potentially confining mid-20th century contemporary classical music as they progressively toy with a myriad of genres including jazz, minimalism, beat poetry, rock ala ...
Manu Delago & Max ZT: Deuce
by Scott Gudell
It seems Manu Delago was always destined to be a musician. Although his first instruments of choice included piano and accordion, he found himself drawn to rock drumming by the time he moved into his teenage years. The goal of mastering various percussion instruments has been his passion, but he has methodically drifted toward jazz and ...
Roomful of Blues: Steppin' Out!
by Scott Gudell
Whether it is swing, jazz, jump, blues or something else, you gotta live it to play it. If you were not there 'in the beginning' when a sound was launched, then you must earn your way into the club as a select group of potent bands have done through the years. Take the Stray Cats for ...
Niia: V
by Scott Gudell
Niia, the Italian / American singer who has been performing since the mid-2010s, has journeyed through various musical incarnations. From subtle to shocking, she seems to have an insatiable lust for changing musical partners. She had an early dedication to classic jazz vocals, darted over to PJ Harvey-inspired angst; she embraced the smooth purring undulations of Sade ...
Havard Volden: Small Lives
by Scott Gudell
Although the press release claims that Norwegian-born Håvard Volden “takes center stage" with his guitar, Small Lives is carefully constructed around the fusion of his experimental guitar work with synthesizers, bass, drums and more--many of which are performed by Volden himself. This is no surprise, as beyond his guitar prowess, he skillfully leverages the capabilities of ...
Mike Clark: Standard Deviations
by Scott Gudell
The goal of Mike and Mike--as in Mike Clark on drums and Mike Zilber on saxophone--the co-leaders on Standard Deviations--was to take eight jazz and pop standards (with one Zilber original) and reinterpret them by adding their 21th century interpretation to them (with the help of Jon Davis on piano and Alex Claffy on bass). Over ...
Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
by Scott Gudell
Although ECM Records has released straight-ahead jazz, free form and more, many of their recordings sweep over listeners with mysterious, ethereal and hypnotic sounds creating alluring siren calls. When those sessions are taking place with an ECM release on the horizon, it is easy to imagine the artists are thinking about 'where's the mystery?'--which is what ...
Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny
by Scott Gudell
Germany's optimistic yet fragile Weimar Republic period was wedged between two brutal wars during the early 20th century. Extending from 1918 to 1933, it was proudly called the Jazz Age and the Golden Twenties and offered an abundance of free-flowing entertainment choices. It was also a time of inflation, chaos and conflict dominated by economic instability ...
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance
by Scott Gudell
Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American musicologist Alan Lomax journeyed into the rural communities of the US (and other counties), Bartok journeyed deep into his native countryside to research and ...
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