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Lori Carsillo: Sugar and Smoke

Read "Sugar and Smoke" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

San Francisco Bay Area songbird Lori Carsillo provides us with her third solo vocal album Sugar and Smoke, presenting modern versions of familiar jazz standards from the '60s, featuring a host of first-rate musicians from the Bay Area's vibrant jazz scene. Carsillo offers a light soft-toned session of vocal jazz enhanced by her sultry hushed-styled vocal ...

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Andrew Downing/Jim Lewis/David Occhipinti: Bristles

Read "Bristles" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

A painterly approach to standards and a not-so-standard approach to portraying painters are the two themes of Bristles. Bassist Andrew Downing, trumpeter Jim Lewis, and guitarist David Occhipinti visit in on six classics--five of which were recorded live in January of 2013 at the Jazz Room in Waterloo, Canada--and create six miniature canvases that honor boundary-pushing ...

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Itamar Borochov Quartet: Outset

Read "Outset" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov landed on U.S. soil in 2006, eager and ready to start studying at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Now, eight years later, he's stepping out with his aptly-titled debut--Outset. While this marks Borochov's maiden voyage as a leader, he's already received some well-deserved attention for his ...

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David Andrew Moore: Personal Mythologies

Read "Personal Mythologies" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The debut album of drummer David Andrew Moore, a collaborator of world music band Slavic Soul Party, clarinetist Andy Statman and drummer Ches Smith, attempts to match modern jazz with elements of chamber music and African and European folk traditions. Moore chose a unique instrumentation for this recording--soprano sax, viola, bass, keyboards and himself on drums ...

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Tyrone Birkett | Emancipation: Post Modern Spirituals: The Promised Land

Read "Post Modern Spirituals: The Promised Land" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Saxophonist and composer Tyrone Birkett's early output, particularly his In the Fullness of Time (Convergence Records, 2006) was dangerously close to the over-sentimental, syrupy and innocuous sounds of (gasp!) smooth jazz. What kept the record from falling over into that, much maligned, genre was Birkett's superlative improvisational chops and his robust devotional sense. On his sophomore ...

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Blastula: Lingue di fuoco

Read "Lingue di fuoco" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Mettete Joni Mitchell e Nina Simone, Cathy Berberian e Bjork, Patti Smith e Ida Cox--ossia voci straordinarie e icone femminili altrettanto straordinarie-- nelle mani di Cristiano Calcagnile e nella voce di Monica Demuru, otterrete Lingue di fuoco, opera seconda del duo denominato Blastula. Il disco è affascinante, mutevole, sorprendente, insolito, coraggioso, profondo e ...

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Nick Grinder: Ten Minutes

Read "Ten Minutes" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner

It's a shame that more trombonists don't make records like the one 25-year-old Nick Grinder has. The instrument has long since proven its worth in bebop, post-bop and neo- bop, but few bone players have elected to exploit the instrument's unique timbre and music- making structure, not to mention writing music most conducive for it, in ...

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Thom Douvan: Brother Brother

Read "Brother Brother" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush

If it was going on sincerity alone it would be hard to knock Brother, Brother. Taken as a labor of love from guitarist Thom Douvan to the classic soul musicians collectively known as The Funk Brothers it sincerely tries hard, but unfortunately comes up short. The immediate problem with any an album of cover ...

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Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser

by Harry S. Pariser

Drummer Jeff Cosgrove's new CD “Alternating Current" is an endeavor built around the composition “Victoria," by the late drummer Paul Motian. Motian first came to prominence in the mid-1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. For this ...

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Jason Roebke: Combination

Read "Combination" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Chicagoan double bassist Jason Roebke has developed a distinct sound of his own, intensely physical, audacious and highly rhythmical. He leads and plays in bands on both sides of the Atlantic, including the trans-Atlantic The Whammies dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy, and drummer Mike Reed's People, Places and Things. Roebke's ...


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