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Jakko M. Jakszyk: Waves Sweep The Sand
by John Kelman
It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder ...
Coto Pincheira: The Sonido Moderno Project
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Coto Pincheira, as Julio Alejandro Pincheira Cubillos prefers being called, has made an enthusiastic impression with The Sonido Moderno Project, literally, the Modern Sound Project. This virtuoso pianist, to whom clave comes naturally, has attempted to pour this rollicking backbeat into a cauldron set alight by the vast number of Afro-Caribbean metaphors and rhythms. The result ...
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Album: Fortune
By Carras Paton
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Duration: 05:52
Leanne Weatherly: Go and Find
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Go and Find is appropriately named by its chanteuse, Leanne Weatherly. The artist is indeed a find. She has rare and complete mastery over her voice that lopes like a gazelle. She can make it hover in somber depths and soar joyful and unfettered into a stratospheric orbit, creating something between goose bumps on the back ...
Underground Horns: Funk Monk
by Elliott Simon
Alto saxophonist Welf Dorr has spent the last several years putting his own unique spin on the brass band, an instrumental lineup that is usually found in NYC crossing jazz with Balkan music. Although Dorr does look to Serbia for part of his musical muse he also draws heavily on a host of things including Afro-Cuban ...
Jon Crowley Quintet: Connections
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In what might be the most perfectly titled CD of recent memory, Connections is a fine effort by talented trumpeter/ composer Jon Crowley and his exciting group. While Crowley might not be a household name just yet, this release announces, anoints and validates him as a fine jazz performer, writer and leader. What ...
Justin Walter: A Call To Arms
by Bruce Lindsay
Justin Walter is the trumpeter in Ann Arbor-based band Nomo and a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Manhattan School of Music. A Call To Arms is his first album as leader and a marked contrast to his recordings with Nomo, a band with a distinctive take on Afrobeat rhythms, welding them to electronics ...
Kalil Wilson: Easy to Love
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is somewhat disconcerting how few new male vocalists inhabiting the jazz idiom practice their craft with the same degree of genius and virtuosity as saxophonists and other instrumentalists. It is a conundrum why so many new artists don't play the first instrument--the human voice. Some posit that poeta nascitur non fit? Is it true that ...
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
Album: Shambhala
By Susan Wylde
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Duration: 03:52
Mads Tolling: The Playmaker
by John Kelman
He's been around for a few years as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but for some he's best known for his work on Stanley Clarke's welcome return to fusion, The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007). Either way, The Playmaker isn't the violinist's first release as a leader--that would be Speed of Light (Self ...

