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Nora Germain: Little Dipper

Read "Little Dipper" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 10, 2014

Jazz fiddlers are not exactly household renowned. Joe Venuti, Ray Nance, Stephane Grappelli, Michal Urbaniak, Svend Asmussen, Jean-luc Ponty and Regina Carter pop to the forefront, but then the list falls off quickly. Presently there emerges one Nora Germain (a name made to be in lights if there ever was one) who not only fiddles but ...

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Busy

October 10, 2014

Album: Prespes
By Loukas Hadellis
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Duration: 7:08

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Old Feeling

October 9, 2014

Album: Groundless
By Nomad
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 4:10

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Fight or Flight

October 8, 2014

Album: Cardinal Directions
By Junk Function
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 07:26

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Cynthia Felton: Cynthia Felton Sings The Nancy Wilson Classics: Save Your Love For Me

Read "Cynthia Felton Sings The Nancy Wilson Classics: Save Your Love For Me" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 7, 2014

Dr. Cynthia Felton dots all the i's and crosses all the t's when putting together an album. She's a detail-oriented singer with enough smarts, business savvy, and musical skill to pull off whatever type of project she wants to pursue, be it a salute to a woefully under-appreciated figure like Oscar Brown Jr. or a tribute ...

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Tom Chang: Tongue and Groove

Read "Tongue and Groove" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 7, 2014

L'incontro tra musica indiana e musica improvvisata è da qualche anno una presenza tutt'altro che sporadica nelle vicende jazzistiche grazie anche all'affermarsi di una schiera di musicisti di primo piano quali Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rez Abbasi, Vijay Iyer e alle loro differenti visioni espressive. Il chitarrista di origine coreana Tom Chang si aggiunge alla schiera con la ...

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Dann Zinn: Shangri La

Read "Shangri La" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 6, 2014

Maybe we've had it all wrong about Shangri-La. Instead of viewing it as a fictional utopian locale, as laid out by author James Hilton in his famed Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933), it can be alternately viewed as a wide-open musical state of being waiting to be explored. That's what saxophonist Dann Zinn seems to go for ...

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Emilio Solla Y La Inestable De Brooklyn: Second Half

Read "Second Half" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 6, 2014

The life-as-football-game metaphor is central to this stunning album from pianist Emilio Solla. In 2012, Solla had an epiphany. He awoke to the realities of his existence, the finite nature of things, and the passage of time. He realized that he'd already played the first half of this game called life, working his ...

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Amanda Ruzza & Mauricio Zottarelli: Glasses, No Glasses

Read "Glasses, No Glasses" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
October 6, 2014

Those familiar with Amanda Ruzza's debut solo This Is What Happened (2012, Pimenta Music) will find no similarities between that project and this collaboration with fellow Brazilian drummer Mauricio Zottarelli. While that first disc went into more of a samba-jazz direction, this one could be classified as an electronic jazz album with funk-blues tendencies. Playing in ...

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Metropolitan Gospel Big Band: Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

Read "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
October 5, 2014

On the debut recording of the Metropolitan Gospel Big Band (led by saxophonist Duke Guillaume, the ensemble presents a collection of Gospel numbers arranged for big band format. The disc opens with “Nothing But The Blood," an up-tempo number that serves as introduction to the group and also features some individual improvised moments from the brass ...