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Jacques Chanier / Jeff Galindo: Access Renewed
by Mark Corroto
A ridiculous thing happens when a person is diagnosed with cancer. At first panic occurs as you sprint to doctor appointments, and that hurriedness intrudes on your daily life. Later as you live with the disease, your slow down to a jog or maybe even stop to smell the flowers. When brain cancer strikes an artist ...
Erik Lawrence: Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism
by Mark Corroto
Somehow, somewhere jazz fans (maybe fanatics) changed the way one could appreciate this music. Theory has it that once the music migrated up the Mississippi from New Orleans (via Louis Armstrong) to Chicago and then spread to New York that it was no longer joyful, but serious business. Who could argue? Charlie Parker had his heroin ...
The Max Perkoff Band: Infinite Search
by Jerry D'Souza
In January 2007 Max Perkoff heralded a change by dropping the words “jazz ensemble and replacing them with “band for his group. The idea behind it was to free them from categorization and to bring in greater freedom. The Max Perkoff Band features Perkoff on trombone and piano, Randy Vincent on guitar, Sam Bevan on bass, ...
Mamiko Watanabe: One After Another
by Terrell Kent Holmes
With the release of One After Another, add Mamiko Watanabe to the list of talented jazz pianists that have come out of Japan in recent years. Watanabe composed all of the songs on this impressive debut and they show a strong, fully developed hard bop sensibility. Watanabe's composing MO is to start off a song with ...
Paster/Ryan/Hall: Invisible Horizon
by Dan McClenaghan
They say “it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." If that's so, then Invisible Horizon must mean a whole lot, 'cause it swings mightily on its opener, “Sweet and Lovely," a standard much-covered by none other than Thelonious Monk; and covered here by pianist Bennett Paster, bassist Gregory Ryan and drummer Keith ...
MaMaVig: MaMaVig
by Doug Collette
Over the course of the past year, as Jamie Masefield's Jazz Mandolin Project has moved further into the realm of multi-media, the Vermonter has steadily developed the band known as MaMaVig. This new trio is a collaboration of both proficiency and passion. All three individuals have chops and pedigree. Ensemble playing rules here, as this trio ...
Ellen Robinson: Mercy!
by Jim Santella
The vocal duet that Ellen Robinson and Ben Flint sing on “The Dimming of the Day comes with a heartfelt message all its own. That's her forte. With this program of fourteen delicate melodies, the singer delivers from the heart. She just lets it fly, and what happens is a lovely melodic parade. Recorded ...
Rick Blessing: I'm Just The Guy For You!
by Michael P. Gladstone
It takes a bunch of chutzpah to create a musical persona and bring it off on disc and in an on-stage act successfully, and singer Rick Blessing has essentially done just that. His preferred ambiance on this debut album is the comfort level of a Frank Sinatra mid-Twentieth Century crooner. Pictured on the album's artwork, and ...
Jose Duque's Zumbatres: Far Away
by Michael P. Gladstone
Venezuelan-born, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based drummer/percussionist Jose Duque leads Zumbatres, a band that doesn't read like a Latin jazz band (and certainly not one from south of the border), for his second album, Far Away , but indeed they sound like one. There is some talk in the liners about the blending of borders insofar as crossing ...
Jeff Alkire: One Summer In Winters
by Michael P. Gladstone
Were one to accept the background notes on altoist/composer Jeff Alkire's One Summer In Winters, it would be reasonable to expect a Paul Winter-type album, in which the music is tailored to bring out the purity of communicating with the wildlife animals that frequent Alikre's northern California property. The altoist intended to “send something beautiful back ...
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