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Gabriel Evan Orchestra: Global Entry

Read "Global Entry" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

At least one dictionary defines an orchestra as “a large instrumental ensemble...which combines instruments from different families including bowed string instruments...woodwinds...brass...percussion..." and “other instruments such as the piano, celeste...and harp..." Or, in the vernacular of New York-based saxophonist Gabriel Evan, a jazz sextet with some but not all of the above. Which is an around-the-block way ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Alternative Guitar: Elif Yalvaç, Rachika Nayar, SkyCreature, Kristinn Kristinsson and Tristan Welch

Read "Alternative Guitar: Elif Yalvaç, Rachika Nayar, SkyCreature, Kristinn Kristinsson and Tristan Welch" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

There is something about the electric guitar that inspires players to utilize electronics to create a more complex sound than previously possible with a solo guitar. Electronic processing offers ways to dramatically alter the guitar's dynamic envelope and timbre, sometimes resulting in a guitar that does not sound like a guitar at all. Add on live ...

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BEL Trio: Beyond Rivers

Read "Beyond Rivers" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Recording a guitar-and-rhythm trio can be a tricky proposition. First, the guitarist, who carries almost every melody, must be well-spoken and easy on the ears. Second, the bass and drums, if that is the format, must be supportive but not intrusive. Third, the music must be for the most part bright and engaging. And finally, the ...

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Secuencia III, Confirmación

Album: Soundtrack Vol I, Secuencia
By Jonatan Piña Duluc
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 06:25

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The Echo Park Project: It's My Turn

Read "It's My Turn" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

There is an abundance of salsa and soul (soulful salsa?) on It's My Turn, the sixth recording by conguero Carlo Lopez's Los Angeles-based Echo Park Project. Most of the sunny, light-hearted music was written and arranged by Joe Mannozzi (the one exception is bassist John Belzaguy's “Can't Complain"). “These tunes," Lopez says, “are for listeners and ...

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Two from Max Bober

Read "Two from Max Bober" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

In July 2020, the Argentine-born, Warsaw-based violinist and composer Max Bober attended Wandelweiser's annual week-long festival Klangraum, in Dusseldorf, as he had been doing since 2018 when he first met Wandelweiser's Managing Director Antoine Beuger and had a mentoring week with him. At the 2020 Klangraum, Bober led daily realisations of his piece “We Have Time" ...

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Mindaugas Stumbras: Inspirations

Read "Inspirations" reviewed by Vitalijus Gailius

by Vitalijus Gailius

Mindaugas Stumbras is a leading jazz guitarist of Lithuanian scene who has much of potential to be broadly acclaimed by international community. He graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow in 2019, and he has already played and toured internationally not only with the well known Lithuanian fusion jazz band Brave Noises, but ...

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I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me

Album: Fifth Element
By Fifth Element
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Duration: 4:07

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Global Folk and Fusions

Read "Global Folk and Fusions" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

It's a wide world out there, yet as vast as it gets, there are always players finding common ground between its most far-flung corners. Naïsaam Jalal and Rhythms of Resistance Un Autre Monde Les Couleurs du Son2021 Ten years is an impressive tenure for any musical outfit, so Naïssam ...

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Hendrik Meurkens: Manhattan Samba

Read "Manhattan Samba" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Composer, virtuoso on both the vibraphone and harmonica, German-born New York-based Hendrik Meurkens presents yet another colorful and tantalizing taste of Brazilian music on the exquisite Manhattan Samba. A proponent of the samba and bossa nova styles of music after a full immersion while living in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1980s, Meurkens continues documenting ...


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