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Miss Sophie Lee: Tallulah Moon
by James Nadal
Vocalist Miss Sophie Lee's Tallulah Moon is a throwback to simpler days, when a song took its own sweet time to develop and tell the story. Right from violinist Matt Rhody's intro on “Delta Bound," there is a mellow New Orleans flavor which is performed with genuineness by the accompanying musicians. Lee has steeped herself in ...
Enoch Smith, Jr.: Church boy
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Pianist and composer Enoch Smith, Jr. appears in the recorded jazz landscape fully blossomed, ripened and in full swing. His thrilling ChurchBboy bears a brazen and welcomed Christian musical engraving that offers proof of expected influences from classical, soul, gospel music and the Protestant Christian hymnody. However, there's no denying the Latin and Caribbean tinges, such ...
Mikan Zlatkovich: Come Together
by Dee Dee McNeil
Although The Beatles' “Come Together" is a commercially apropos title for keyboardist Mikan Zlatkovich's premier CD, it's his original compositions that are the highlights. “Four Plus One" is upbeat and very funky, with Zlatkovich employing a Yamaha ES90X keyboard to punch the rhythm while singing a repeatable melody hook with his busy right hand. The trio's ...
Alain Bradette: State of Mind
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Contemporary: here today; now. However, in today's speed-of-light-is-too-slow world, that word is reminiscent of quantum physicists who, when viewing particles at subatomic levels, see activity that has already taken place. Ephemeral. Passé. Bland in essence, it has immediate and short-lived appeal. Such is the state sometimes with music categorized as “contemporary." While one ...
The Britton Brothers Band: Uncertain Living
by Bruce Lindsay
Hip-hop, bebop and Monk--not a music business legal partnership, but a brief summation of some of the musical influences at work on Uncertain Living, the excellent debut album from the Britton Brothers Band. The brothers--tenor saxophonist Ben Britton and trumpeter John, have put together a tight and talented collection of players with the added bonus of ...
Keith Pray's Big Soul Ensemble: Live at the Lark Tavern
by Alexander M. Stern
Live recording can be a mixed blessing. On a live album, an artist has an opportunity to capture the raw energy created in performance before an audience. When the band is cooking and the audience is whooping it up, it is clear that while music is made in rehearsal halls and recording studios, it lives onstage. ...
Kyoko Oyobe Trio: Cookin' at Smalls
by AAJ Italy Staff
Cookin' at Smalls è un live leggero e accattivante, proprio come il sushi che campeggia nella copertina del disco d'esordio di Kyoko Oyobe. La pianista giapponese, che da qualche anno ha fatto di New York la sua città d'adozione, si è concentrata sulle sue composizioni e ha confezionato un CD davvero piacevole. Tra i sette brani ...
Erika: Obsession
by Bruce Lindsay
Obsession is vocalist Erika Matsuo's debut CD, but it comes after a long and varied musical career that includes the all-girl rock band Tear Drops, in her native Japan, and work with the City College of New York's Latin jazz band. This is the debut, therefore, of an experienced singer and it shows in Matsuo's confident ...
Sagy Segal: Global Village
by Eyal Hareuveni
The debut release of the international, Amsterdam-based quartet, led by an Israeli pianist and composer Sagy Segal, attempts to re-frame the traditional jazz quartet in a global perspective by adding traditional, localized ingredients into its lyrical recipe. Elements such as Sephardic Jewish songs, Brazilian, Argentinean Tango, Celtic, Indian, and even Chinese musical traditions affect the depth ...
Paul Keeling: The Farthest Reach
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The cultures of several musical idioms collide in the music of pianist Paul Keeling on his album, The Farthest Reach. There is a distinct channeling of the pulsating rhythm of late-1960s bop, the gospel of which was spread by musicians such as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. Keeling also channels the glacial imagery of musicians who ...
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