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Alfredo Balcacer: Suspended Sea

Read "Suspended Sea" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 8, 2019

The only constant is change, and it's in that phrase that we can best suss out the meaning(s) embedded within this debut from Dominic guitarist Alfredo Balcacer. Expressing both roots and evolutionary branches, Balcacer hangs his lines on the sounds of his homeland while extending their reaches across the Caribbean to address his growth as an ...

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/fyo͞oɡ/: Temp'rall Sho’gazing

Read "Temp'rall Sho’gazing" reviewed by Paul Naser

by Paul Naser
September 7, 2019

As far as band names go, /Fyo͞oɡ/ lands firmly on the side of the eccentric. As far as roots go, it hails from one of the world's most storied music cities. The New Orleans-based duo looks to both the city's past and present for its debut record, Temp'rall Sho'gazing. As abstract and modern ...

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N'essaye Pas Julie Slim & RendezVous

September 6, 2019

Album: N'essaye Pas Julie Slim & RendezVous
By Julie Slim
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Duration: 04:03

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São Salvador

September 5, 2019

Album: Diagonal
By Kerry Politzer
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Duration: 2:56

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Sara Gazarek: Thirsty Ghost

Read "Thirsty Ghost" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
September 4, 2019

Sara Gazarek has been working as a professional jazz singer since 2004. You can find plenty of vintage YouTube clips of her singing Great American Songbook material in a breezy, polished manner. A few years ago, things began to happen in her life. There was near-death tragedy in her family, her marriage fell apart and she ...

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Espoleta

September 4, 2019

Album: Na escuta
By André Peloso
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Duration: 3:19

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Maria Baptist: Here & Now 2

Read "Here & Now 2" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
September 2, 2019

Maria Baptist and big bands go way back. From a lifelong fascination with orchestras to several large-ensemble collaborations and academic competitions from the '90s onward, she's always been drawn to handling impressive quantities of brass. Whatever else she gets up to--and there's certainly no shortage of other different projects to keep rotating among--her Jazz Orchestra stays ...

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Rob Laufer: The Floating World

Read "The Floating World" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 31, 2019

Rob Laufer's first album in nine years, The Floating World, will no doubt compel repeated listenings after the first one, if only so the curious music lover can better distinguish how much he or she might have missed on that initial hearing. While the LP's main touchstones are a bit obvious, the process of distinguishing the ...

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Chuck Anderson: Original Jazz Works

Read "Original Jazz Works" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
August 30, 2019

Philadelphia boasts three legendary guitarists--Pat Martino, Jimmy Bruno, and Chuck Anderson--who belong on anyone's “profiles in courage" list. Each has made heroic recoveries from disabling medical conditions, recovering their chops and playing better than ever. Anderson, who some time ago recovered from debilitating sleep apnea, and after recently suffering a massive coronary and spending two weeks ...