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Matt Cricscuolo: Melancholia
by Woodrow Wilkins
Take a quartet, add some strings, and you'll get an elegant seasoning to flavor jazz. Alto saxophonist Matt Criscuolo accomplishes this with Melancholia, his third album as a leader. Criscuolo has a knack for embracing the hard bop style, yet adding some contemporary improvisation. His credits include work with David Murray, and Etta James, ...
Sebastian Hilken/Anat Cohavi/Klaus Janek: SternSchuss No. 1
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Berlin-based SternSchuss trio presents its own bold version of free improvisation on its self-produced debut release, SternSchuss No. 1. The trio is comprised of Israeli reed player Anat Cohavi, whose resume includes studies with Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger and composer Slava Ganelin, in Texas and in North India, where she studied the shenai, a traditional ...
Bethany Smith Staelens: The Big Band Theory
by Edward Blanco
Jazz vocalist Bethany Smith Staelens may not be such a recognizable name in the jazz world today but, with the release of The Big Band Theory, Staelens' recording debut seems to affirm the hypothesis that one terrific singer, an eighteen-piece big band, and a wonderful selection of music equals a swinging session of big band jazz ...
Brian Charette: Missing Floor
by Woodrow Wilkins
The typical jazz trio consists of bass, drums and a lead instrument--usually a guitar, saxophone, organ or piano. Brian Charette sidesteps this ideal with something as interesting as it is off the proverbial beaten path. Organist Charette also plays the piano and uses a laptop computer in creating the sounds for Missing Floor. ...
Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Open Port
by Glenn Astarita
This largely high-impact orchestra launched in 1984 by Norwegian multi-reedman Frode Gjerstad is more of a collective, where young and veteran jazz-based improvisers pass through to abet the unit's continual evolution. It's an acoustic-electric format that might be analogous to a histogram amidst the abundance of pointy spikes and steady-state flows. It's an international ...
Dee Cassella: I'm Here Now
by Edward Blanco
After careers as a psychotherapist and a real estate business owner, Dee Cassella takes a late detour in the journey of life by plunging headfirst into the world of jazz when, in 2008, she launched the release of I'm Here Now at New York's Metropolitan Room, notifying the world that she has, indeed, arrived. Possessing a ...
Chris Oberholtzer: Here It Is
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Sometime in 2008, a video clip posted on a trumpet geek site depicted a trombone player's unlucky efforts to land a New Year's Eve gig. Even the triangle player got called for a gig, but the formally-decked out trombonist sadly wound up home alone. With the chops he displays on this CD, Chris ...
Jack Broad: Current
by Mark F. Turner
With a fusion-for-today mindset, savvy tech work and some imagination, New York guitarist Jack Broad amps up the cool factor on Current. This debut goes beyond the usual fretboard pyrotechnics as Broad puts on a one-man show, not only laying down heated guitar licks but also writing, programming and delivering everything into the final product.
The Darius Brubeck Quartet: For Lydia and the Lion
by Jerry D'Souza
The first music that Darius Brubeck became familiar with was jazz, which is not surprising given the family he was born into. Brubeck studied the music and played it along with his father Dave and his brothers Chris and Dan as well as his own groups. Brubeck, however, did not confine himself to that one form; ...
The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: At First Light
by Jerry D'Souza
The United States Military Academy has several bands drawn from graduates of prestigious music schools in the U.S. The Jazz Knights, who form one segment, have been around for 30 years. During that time they have played with Benny Goodman and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and have also welcomed Steve Turre, James Carter and John Clayton, ...
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