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Article: Album Review

4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra: East Atlanta Passover Stomp

Read "East Atlanta Passover Stomp" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Close to a century ago, Egyptologists, chief among them Cheikh Anta Diop, suggested that there was only one race: The Human Race. The Diaspora scattered from the Rift Valley and the rest, as they say, is, well, nations with severely controlled borders. Music and radio--before the advent of the record--broke some of that down, but most ...

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Jacques Pellarin Trio: Sound of Philadelphia

Read "Sound of Philadelphia" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Sound of Philadelphia is not a novelty record--one that some critics might dismiss as world music. Jacques Pellarin's music is inflected with myriad cultural influences, so this rather empty epithet is likely to be used on the composer. This labeling is especially tough on an artist who is as seriously talented as the French/Basque musician. Pellarin ...

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Darren Sigesmund: Strands II

Read "Strands II" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Trombonist Darren Sigesmund made an impression with his debut recording Strands (Timely Manor) which was released in 2008. The music drew from jazz, Latin, Brazilian, and classical influences. Sigesmund has expanded his group to a septet adding vocalist Eliana Cuevas and percussionist Daniel Stone as special guest Tim Ries (soprano and tenor saxophones and flute) as ...

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Ike Sturm: JazzMass

Read "JazzMass" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Because of its transcendent nature, listening to jazz is often considered to be a spiritual experience. Certainly listening to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964) is a larger-than-life experience. Same can be said of bassist Ike Sturm's JazzMass, a 10-part construction for jazz septet, voices and strings that presents prayer and music as a sacrament. ...

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Andre Mehmari / Gabriele Mirabassi: Miramari

Read "Miramari" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Miramari is a musical whirlpool that bubbles with rhythmic ripples and swirls in a manner conveying a gentle disturbance that gathers in intensity at times. It is in this mysteriously liquid realm that Brazilian pianist Andre Mehmari and Italian clarinetist Gabriel Mirabassi concoct their sublime music, mixing disparate metaphors with idiomatic phrases and images. Somehow, by ...

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Brother Thelonious Quintet: Brother Thelonious

Read "Brother Thelonious" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Nobody can deny the distinctive signature of Thelonious Monk's music. Written for simple piano, bass, and drums, it is a remarkable blending of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Now, expand his conception into a quintet setting and the challenge as Monk would say, to “lift the bandstand," presents itself to the musicians and arrangers. Assigning ...

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King David and The Talk of the Town Band: Mr. Success Chicago

Read "Mr. Success Chicago" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

New York vocalist King David makes no excuses for his love of good old swing music, the sound of the big bands and the music from the 1930s to the 1960s, as he borrows from The Great American Songbook in reinterpreting and updating terrific old standards on Mr. Success Chicago, with has Talk of The Town ...

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Mark Guest: (Why We're) Happy Together

Read "(Why We're) Happy Together" reviewed by Jack Huntley

by Jack Huntley

Guitarist Mark Guest's (Why We're) Happy Together seems built upon a simple premise: deliver solid, hip playing with a tight ensemble feel and see where it leads. If that is near to Guest's motive, he fully lived up to the creed. The album covers a fair amount of harmonic territory, but always lays down a genuine ...

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Amalgamation: Therefore

Read "Therefore" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

Amalgamation is the bringing together of different elements. It is also the name of group that wants, on its debut Therefore, to present a unique sound. Based in Cleveland, Mississippi, this saxophone/guitar/bass/drums quartet is heavily influenced by the blues, but with a sound that's more a mix of rock, pop, jazz and fusion, its ...

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Swinging On Rainbows

Album: Swinging On Rainbows
By Cousin Alice
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 03:55


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