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Hiroshima: Departure

Read "Departure" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
March 5, 2012

Departure isn't as much a radical departure as it is the next step in Hiroshima's evolution away from smooth jazz mainstay into a tight unit of skilled players making consistently solid music. The band is still built around multi-instrumentalist Dan Kuramoto and June Kuramoto}'s kinetic koto performances. James “Kimo" Cornwell's keyboard is an underrated strength, as ...

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Josh Levinson: Chauncey Street

Read "Chauncey Street" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 4, 2012

In Chauncey Street Brooklyn-based trumpeter/educator, Josh Levinson and his sextet return to the tight camaraderie, inventive soloing and captivating themes that characterized the Blue Note sound of the 1950s and '60s.That Levinson is greatly influenced by Freddie Hubbard is evident throughout, the record even containing the intricate and memorable “For Freddie." On this and ...

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Coltrane Matrix

March 4, 2012

Album: Retrieval Structure
By Quentin Bryan Angus
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 06:29

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Arturo Vera / Ethan Mann: Acoustic Project

Read "Acoustic Project" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 3, 2012

The Acoustic Project is a confluence of classical styling, Spanish-tinged songs, and improvisational elements, brought together by two men who have ample knowledge and skill in all three areas. Guitarists Ethan Mann and Arturo Vera have known each other for two decades, having connected long ago when they were both at the Manhattan School of Music, ...

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Lucid: So Oder So

Read "So Oder So" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 2, 2012

Lydia Schiller, Sevi Krieger and Florian Leuschner met not long ago as members of one of Germany's several superb youth jazz orchestras (yes, that is a good idea; a pity it hasn't surfaced on this side of the Atlantic) and decided to form a working trio built around Schiller's lucid vocal talents, which include flawless diction, ...

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Sea Jam

March 2, 2012

Album: Red Pajamas
By Jay T. Vonada
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 4:48

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Katie Glassman: Snapshot

Read "Snapshot" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
February 29, 2012

The marriage of jazz and country music has a long and colorful history. In writer Geoffrey Himes' excellent article, “Jazz and Country Fusion: The Searchers" (JazzTimes, December 2008), he explores how this history contains everyone from saxophonist Sonny Rollins, bassist Charlie Haden and guitarist Bill Frisell, to banjoist Béla Fleck and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Defining “country ...

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Safe At The Cheeseplate

February 29, 2012

Album: Flipside
By Paul Unger
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 06:47

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Jenny Scheinman: Mischief & Mayhem

Read "Mischief & Mayhem" reviewed by Jack Huntley

by Jack Huntley
February 27, 2012

Violinist Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & Mayhem fires on all cylinders. Everything works--from arrangements to overall track cohesion, from the music's fertile energy to the musician's creative interplay, and from the quality of sound engineering to the ingeniously accomplished album art--making this a near-flawless package of musical craftsmanship. Mischief & Mayhem indeed, as the album is nothing ...