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Motian Sickness: The Music of Paul Motian: For the Love of Sarah

Read "For the Love of Sarah" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 6, 2012

The parts of the drum set, viewed individually or as a collective whole, fit neatly under the “percussion" heading in the musical instrument world, yet Paul Motian rarely seemed to view them as objects to be struck. Motian found a way to finesse the cymbals, flirt with the drums and free the drum set from the ...

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Majamisty TriO: Mistyland

Read "Mistyland" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 6, 2012

Supreme virtuosity and intense lyricism come together on Majamisty Trio's Mystiland. Both the group and record are named after Erroll Garner's composition that serves as leader Maja Alvanović's theme song, and is also the only standard on an otherwise all-original disc from the pianist. She imbues Garner's masterpiece with a breeziness that masks the complexities of ...

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Towner Galaher: Uptown!

by Dan Bilawsky
July 4, 2012

Uptown!, like drummer Towner Galaher's two previous releases, relies on multiple horns to flesh out the leader's melodies and some choice covers, but it's still a departure from his earlier work. Piano, bass and drums with some added percussion was served as the rhythmic nucleus at the center of Panorama (Self Produced, 2007) and Courageous Hearts ...

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The Black Butterflies: Rainbows for Ramon

by Matt Marshall
July 4, 2012

The Black ButterfliesRainbows for RamonSelf Produced2012Judging by its title alone, some might expect Rainbows for Ramon, the sophomore release by The Black Butterflies, to be a flighty affair that trills off into flowery musical fields fit for skipping unicorns. It is not this (thankfully), even though joyful melodic ...

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Riviera Paradise

July 3, 2012

Album: Argument for the Blues
By Josh Maxey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 04:24

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Sylvain Rifflet: Alphabet

Read "Alphabet" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 2, 2012

French composer/reed player Sylvain Rifflet is recognized not only for his work in jazz, but also in film music. With his current quartet, he has broadened his palette to include world, rock and avant-garde influences. The resulting Alphabet defies narrow classification as it straddles many styles. It certainly is a very cinematic affair, ...

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Steve Barta: Another Life Brazil

Read "Another Life Brazil" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 2012

Pianist Steve Barta continues his musical travels through Brazil that started with Blue River (Source Music, 2001), a collaboration with flautist Herbie Mann. Mann joined Barta on Another Life Brazil, performing his valedictory on the title tune shortly before his death at 73, in 2003. None other than Hubert Laws rounds out the wind parts on ...

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Sandra Marlowe: True Blue

Read "True Blue" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 1, 2012

With the plethora of female jazz vocalist turning out new albums almost weekly, it is refreshing to hear an exceptional voice--a diamond in the rough--from a singer whose time has finally come to share her enormous talents with the rest of the world. San Francisco Bay Area native Sandra Marlowe proves she is no ordinary singer, ...

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Beverley Beirne & Her Quartet: Seasons Of Love

Read "Seasons Of Love" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 28, 2012

What gives a song the status of “standard"? One thing might be its popularity with musicians and fans. Most of the dozen songs on Seasons Of Love are standards that range from the popular to the extremely popular. Another characteristic may be a song's malleability: its capacity for almost infinite re-imaginings; a something that often gets ...

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Sylvain Rifflet: Alphabet

Read "Alphabet" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 28, 2012

While most people think of the alphabet as a collection of letters which act as the building blocks for words, Sylvain Rifflet probably isn't one of them. The French reed multi-instrumentalist seems to subscribe to the broader definition, which states that an alphabet is really “the basic elements in a system which combine to form complex ...