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Stella Bass: Too Darn Hot

Read "Too Darn Hot" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 20, 2014

Singer Stella Bass is a stalwart of Dublin's live music scene, leading small jazz ensembles and collaborating with the HotHouse Big Band and the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra. Bass's debut jazz recording follows Smoke and Sound (Self Produced 2010), her cabaret tribute to Kurt Weil, Bertold Brech, Marlene Dietrich et al. In the main, Too Darn ...

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Kaye Bohler: Handle the Curves

Read "Handle the Curves" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 19, 2014

"The White Tina Turner." Them is fightin' words. West coast vocalist and composer Kaye Bohler might be better described as Tina Turner covering Etta James at Muscle Shoals. Handle the Curves is a decade of original compositions that span from the Aretha Franklin-inflected “Diggin' on My Man" to the Van Morrison-ish title tune. ...

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Bulgarian Affair

October 19, 2014

Album: Jazz is Not dead it just smells funny
By Lambert Orkhestra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 4:36

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Alister Spence and Myra Melford: Everything Here Is Possible

Read "Everything Here Is Possible" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 18, 2014

This exceptional piano duo featuring American Myra Melford and Sydney-based Australian Alister Spence, known for his local trio and an acclaimed duo with Scottish saxophonist Raymond MacDonald ; (Stepping Behind The Shadows, Rufus, 2012), was recorded during late 2012 while Melford toured Australia with her Trio M. The pianist/composers got to know each other through a ...

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Up and Down

October 18, 2014

Album: Light Of the City
By Yoosun Nam
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Duration: 6:45

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Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Safety Zone

Read "Safety Zone" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 16, 2014

With the release of its eighth album, Safety Zone, the Millennium Jazz Orchestra from the Netherlands marks its twenty-fifth year under the astute guidance of composer / arranger Joan Reinders who formed the band in 1989 and recorded for the first time two years later. As interesting as the orchestra's growth as a unit has been ...

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Dimitrije Vasiljević: Metaphor

Read "Metaphor" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 15, 2014

The second solo piano release by composer, pianist and Serbian native Dimitrije Vasiljević, Metaphor seems to embody the very best of the European (Eastern and Western) and American classical and jazz piano traditions. With his austere yet light approach to melody and rhythm, Vasiljević reflects both emerging pianists such as Eldar Djangirov and more longstanding stalwarts ...

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JP Soars: Full Moon Night In Memphis

Read "Full Moon Night In Memphis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 14, 2014

The blues have proven to be a most durable musical genre. They are also quite fertile and productive, providing the basis for infinite interpretation. This is good and bad. It is good for all of the exceptional music that has been made atop the rugged 12-bar harmonic structure. It is bad for all of the bad ...