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Michelle A. Richard: Michelle A. Richard
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Michelle A. Richard is a young Francophone Canadian vocalist and actor from British Columbia whose imagined musical ancestors could well be Little Jimmy Scott and Mavis Staples. These names are significant and provide an obvious peek into Richard's vocal world: Jazz and blues, to which it is possible to add Acadian roots music. The latter makes ...
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Decades ago, the great bandleader Stan Kenton created a spoken prologue to an album recording. It was entitled “This Is an Orchestra." In that brief monologue, which was interspersed with brief performance examples, Kenton detailed the individual and ensemble components, integration, and overall creative mix that “made" the Kenton Jazz Orchestra what it was.
The Moss Project: Vision
by Roger Farbey
Unclassifiable is perhaps the most appropriate term to describe the debut album Vision, by guitarist and Berklee alumnus Moss Freed and his sextet, Moss Project. Formed in late 2007, this group--hailing from Manchester, England--has been gigging widely around the world; and it shows. For a first album, this is a more than competent start. The compositions ...
John Stetch: TV Trio
by Woodrow Wilkins
Pianist John Stetch makes it clear that the Great American Songbook has a sequel: television themes. With TV Trio, Stetch presents a collection of some of his favorite themes from perhaps the most influential period of this music, the '70s and '80s. Canada-born Stetch earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Montreal and won ...
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own": The U.S. Army Blues Swamp Romp Voodoo Boogaloo
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Like the bloodstream that flows through the body of jazz, the music and traditions of New Orleans percolates to this day. And, as jazz forms evolve, develop and turn back on themselves like a musical Moebius strip, New Orleans-style jazz will always bubble up, reminding all where it came from and where it is going.
Wave Mechanics Union: Second Season
by Edward Blanco
One of the most unusual jazz albums to burst on to the scene has to be Second Season, from the Wave Mechanics Union, a creative collaboration formed by trombonist Ryan Fraley, drummer Ralph Johnson, and vocalist Lydia McAdams. Though billed as a jazz recording, the origins of the music are taken from the progressive and classical ...
Matthias Bublath: Second Angle
by Woodrow Wilkins
It's difficult to imagine good jazz without a bass, but a Hammond B3 organ in the right hands can cover the absence quite well. Matthias Bublath has such hands. Bublath, a fixture on the New York scene, has performed at many festivals around the world and toured extensively in the United States, Europe and ...
Eric Bolvin: Workin' It
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Eric Bolvin is a multi-tasker's multi-tasker. Not only is he one of the San Francisco Bay Area's busiest working trumpeters, but he's also exceptionally well-known and respected on the internet as a teacher, composer and publisher of brass-related methods. He's a one-man brand. With Workin' It, Bolvin gets back to his “toot roots" and delivers 14 ...
Hot House: Hot House: Cuban Tribute to Charlie Parker
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Over the last year, there have been a number of Latin tribute CD releases, incuding trombonist Conrad Herwig's The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter (Halfnote, 2008). Trumpeter Steven Gluzband's Hot House: Cuban Tribute to Charlie Parker tribute goes right for the “tribute jugular" of jazz with this entertaining, and highly interesting CD. Who better to honor ...
Jim Hession: Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride
by Wade Luquet
Jim Hession's Playing with Fire: Volume One, The Giants of Stride is both historical, and an impressive piece of stride piano playing. Hession began playing at a young age and was a fixture on the traditional jazz scene in California by the time he was 20. He was a protege of Eubie Blake, who he recorded ...
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