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May 16, 2014

Album: Mahler Movie Music Entertainment, Vol1
By Burkhard Mahler
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 06:01

Article: Album Review

Quentin Angus, a multi-award-winning Australian guitarist, follows up his 2011 debut recording, Retrieval Structure, with the ambitious Perception. Born in 1987, he still clocks in as a “young" artist, but his music is strikingly mature. An apt comparison is the monumentally talented guitarist Pat Metheny, with a broad vision and a penchant for grand statements and ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 13, 2014

The recipe for this album could be detailed as such: start with one inventive drummer, add two interconnected masters of wholly improvised music, throw a composition from Paul Motian into the pot, and let it all stir itself. Drummer Jeff Cosgrove's fascination with the music of Motian isn't a secret. As the man ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Sarah Silverman: Sarah

by Geannine Reid
May 13, 2014

Vocalist and pianist Sarah Silverman was born into music, Silverman grew up surrounded by music from her parents; her father toured as a drummer with jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie and her mother performed as a classical violinist in Toronto. Silverman's musical and creative DNA showed itself at a young age, with effortless talents in theatre, dance, ...

Article: Album Review

Charlotte Glasson: Festivus

Read "Festivus" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
May 13, 2014

This exceptional album succeeds on several levels. First there's Glasson herself, an undeniably, prodigiously talented multi- instrumentalist whose diverse armamentarium would successfully rival that of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's, maybe substituting his stritch for her saw. The nine tracks here all benefit from Glasson's imaginative arrangements for which the word “quirky" would be hardly adequate. ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Cote: Where Do You Start

Read "Where Do You Start" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 11, 2014

Sometimes preconceived notions about recordings can be smashed to smithereens in the most wonderful way. What, yet another GAS-and-jazz-standards recording--this one a debut from a middle-age male vocalist whose main gig is law? Well, quoting TV Land's “Gomer Pyle," “Surprise, surprise!" And, a most enjoyable musical discovery in the Cracker Jack® box it is.

Article: Album Review

Jamie Alexander Smith: Kinesis

Read "Kinesis" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 10, 2014

Kinesis, from the young Edinburgh based pianist Jamie Alexander Smith, is sub-titled Four Improvisations On Piano. The sub-title pretty much explains things--on a basic level and except for the fact that a fifth track, “WKG," puts in an appearance. Of course, while the basic level of explanation hints at Smith's compositional approach and makes his instrument ...

Article: Album Review

Farthest South: Neurim

Read "Neurim" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 10, 2014

The Israeli improvisational trio Farthest South explored distant musical universes in its previous albums--free jazz with local sax hero Albert Beger on Omens & Talismans (2013) and ambient-space rock on Spheres & Constellations (2013). Only on its third release, Neurim (youth in Hebrew} the trio dares to tackle one of the sore aspects of the Israeli ...