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2013 Yuletide Offerings

by Dan Bilawsky
December 2, 2013

It's clear that the holidays are coming when the mercury dips and the cheery tidings of the season are balanced out by shopping-fueled malaise. When it comes to music, said shopping is often centered on a series of new holiday-themed releases that seem to arrive like clockwork in the weeks and months prior to Christmas; this ...

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Light Sea

December 2, 2013

Album: Opportunity
By Erik Lamberth
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 04:14

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UNI Jazz Band One: This Is the Band

Read "This Is the Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2013

UNI is the University of Northern Iowa, which has had a respected Jazz Studies program for more than three decades, first under director Robert Washut and more recently under Chris Merz whose charges have recorded and released their tenth CD since Merz assumed the reins in 2002 (the band recorded eleven albums under Washut's guidance). Six ...

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A Very Short Song

November 30, 2013

Album: Sightline
By Laurenzi/Ernst/Green
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 04:05

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Sarpay Ozcagatay: Unexpectable

Read "Unexpectable" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 29, 2013

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Sarpay Ozcagatay is a flautist and EWI player who feels that the flute does not have the respect in the jazz world that it should. Accordingly, Ozcagatay is on a mission to change the perception of the flute as an accompanying instrument and believes the flute is as much a lead instrument ...

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Greg Lewis: Organ Monk: American Standard

Read "Organ Monk: American Standard" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 28, 2013

Dan Bilawsky was mightily impressed with Greg Lewis' two previous Organ Monk offerings, Two in the Black (Self Produced, 2012) and Organ Monk (Self Produced, 2010), where he notes the challenges to non-piano surveys of Thelonious Monk's canon. Greatly in absence is the element of Monk's percussive pianism. But Bilawsky notes that Lewis compensates for this ...

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EC3: It's All About the Rhythm

Read "It's All About the Rhythm" reviewed by Jeffrey Uhrich

by Jeffrey Uhrich
November 27, 2013

Joy and exuberance are like prevailing winds throughout “It's All About the Rhythm", the third release by drummer/bandleader EC3 (aka Ernest Coleman). Vibrant and full of life, EC3 assembles a sound rhythmic foundation in his arrangements of popular and well-known songs mixed with newer, lesser known compositions. EC3 relates that in arranging the songs “[i]n musical ...

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Dream With Me

November 27, 2013

Album: Dream With Me
By Annette Genovese
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:44

Article: Album Review

Jim Manley: Short Stories & Tall Tales

Read "Short Stories & Tall Tales" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 26, 2013

Back in the 60s, there was a classic James Bond film starring Sean Connery entitled Goldfinger (United Artists, 1964). The key antagonist in the action-packed film was a character named “Auric Goldfinger." He had less than the Midas touch. Conversely, St. Louis-based trumpeter Jim Manley does indeed have that touch as he shines on Short Stories ...

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The Dickens Campaign: Oh Lovely Appearance

Read "Oh Lovely Appearance" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 26, 2013

New York-based drummer Deric Dickens' southern roots and inspirations derived from legendary music archivist Alan Lomax morph into an Americana-dappled spectrum of modern jazz on this delightful trio date. The bass-less program summons a capacious platform, as the artists' rural and bluesy twists underscore the modern jazz vernacular. Lomax zigzagged across America in the 1930s with ...