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Clifford Lamb: One
by Larry Taylor
It's a pleasure to discover a jazz performer. whose style is unique. Pianist Clifford Lamb is in this category as he displays in One. Hailing from Oakland, California, he has put together San Francisco Bay area musicians, Darrell Green on drums and Ron Belcher, bass, who help considerably to bring out his individualistic touch. ...
Lee Jones: Songs From The 13th Hour
by Douglas Payne
This enjoyable and engaging album--guitarist Lee Jones's second as a leader--aims to throw some much-needed wrinkles in to the smoothness of so much contemporary jazz. That's not really newsworthy, of course, but hardly anyone thus far has succeeded in doing it so successfully. While so many of today's new breed of jazz guitarists are ...
Supercollider: Supercollider EP
by Florence Wetzel
Supercollider is one of the most popular and distinctive jazz groups on the Colorado Front Range. A refreshing blend of jazz, blues, funk, and rock, Supercollider's music is both melodic and powerful, with an energetic frontline and a soulful vocalist who digs deep. This is a group that can embark on a twenty-minute high-wire jazz jam, ...
Mia Theodoratus: Misirlou
by Florence Wetzel
This is an exciting time to be an artist. The digital revolution is providing new tools daily and, at the same time, old forms have not completely disappeared, allowing artists who are so inclined to mix and match as they please. Harpist Mia Theodoratus's EP, Misirlou, is an intriguing mixture of old and new. To record ...
De La Buena: La Tortuga
by Chris M. Slawecki
When you consider what would be the animal kingdom's equivalent of hot, lusty Latin jazz, the first animal you think of is most likely not the turtle. At least not until you hear this first studio album by De La Buena, La Tortuga (the turtle). Milwaukee Wisconsin's reigning masters of Latin and Afro-Cuban ...
Club d'Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below
by Chris M. Slawecki
Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d'Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of contributors--keyboardist John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levin, Mat Maneri on electric viola, turntablist Mister Rourke, and many others among them--steered by ...
Andrea Wood: dhyana
by C. Michael Bailey
Washington D.C. native Andrea Wood has assimilated the area's disparate musical styles. Properly trained, Wood exerts impressive creative control over her material, one that is not afraid to take chances. Her alto is both powerful and pliable, capable of Betty Carter-like flights of fancy, and dhyana is a collision of every tradition between here and the ...
Halloween 2010, Atlantic City, NJ: Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
by C. Michael Bailey
Phish Halloween 2010, Atlantic City, NJ: Little FeatWaiting For Columbus Self Produced 2010 Phish's Musical Costumes" fully hit their stride with 2009's Halloween cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972). That show was the first Halloween Musical Costume" show since 1998's cover of The Velvet ...
Steve Hudson Chamber Ensemble: Galactic Diamonds
by Bruce Lindsay
Some people favor the big statement: the bling of an over-large jewel, the blinding distraction of too many sparkly things. Others have the good taste to know that the small stones shine most brightly. Pianist, composer and melodica player Steve Hudson is one of those people, and the debut recording from his Steve Hudson Chamber Ensemble, ...
Phish: 10.31.09 Festival 8: Indio, California
by C. Michael Bailey
In 1994, Phish inaugurated the practice of covering a famous classic rock album as the second of three sets making up its Halloween concerts. The band termed these concerts its musical costumes." The first classic recording it chose to honor was The Beatles' White Album (Apple, 1968). Since that time, Phish has honored, in 1995, The ...

