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Shane Cooper: Oscillations

Read "Oscillations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 4, 2013

"South African Jazz" means different things to different people; to some, it's music that's smooth and pacifying, produced by artists like guitarist Jonathan Butler; to others, it's the music of icons like pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and trumpeter Hugh Masekela, both of whom became symbols of freedom during the apartheid era; and to a third group, that ...

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Big Sky

August 4, 2013

Album: Oscillations
By Shane Cooper
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 6:06

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The Jason Klobnak Quintet: Mountain, Move

Read "Mountain, Move" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 3, 2013

"The Jazz Mainstream" is a sub-genre that has, by necessity, changed with the music's evolution. During the 1910s and '20s, New Orleans and Chicago ruled the mainstream, while the '30s and '40s belonged to big band swing. With the twilight of the big bands, combos shrunk to quartet and quintet size and bebop burned brightly in ...

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Chris Kelsey & What I Say: The Electric Miles Project

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
August 3, 2013

Trumpeter Miles Davis' post-Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), pre-hiatus (1975-1981) electric music--dense, loud, dark, funky, vast--has posed problems for musicians. The Yo Miles! collective, led by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser, gamely approached it as a repertoire: these are songs, they seemed to say; let's just play them (and so they did, on albums ...

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Sky

August 3, 2013

Album: Colors
By UroSoule
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 5:41

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Colossus: Colossus

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2013

Colossus is the name of the album and the band, a seventeen- piece ensemble formed in 2012, comprised of present and former students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and co-led by trumpeter Dave Chisholm, trombonist Mike Conrad and saxophonist Levi Saelua. While the music is decidedly contemporary, its essential components--melody, harmony, rhythm, ...

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Kurtis Adams: Collage

Read "Collage" reviewed by Victor Verney

by Victor Verney
August 2, 2013

Saxophonist Kurtis Adams could scarcely have chosen a more apt title for this release, an eclectic-minded assemblage drawn from a wide variety of musical genres, including classical.The opening “Blue Fox," has a distinctly West Coast “Cool School" feel, a style to which Adams has rendered homage elsewhere. Here, Adams gives a sense of what ...

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Silvans' Dance

August 2, 2013

Album: The Path of Silvan
By Dimitrije Vasiljevic
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 6:14

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Timing Is Everything

August 1, 2013

Album: Snapshot
By Gustavo Cortiñas
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 5:59

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Paul Marinaro: Without A Song

Read "Without A Song" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 29, 2013

At first blush, Chicago singer Paul Marinaro's debut recording, Without A Song, is a well-meaning vanity recording that turns out to be...well, well-meaning. That impression is forgivable only for those not living in the Chicago area. Further reading reveals that this recording had its genesis in some 78 rpm acetates Marinaro found of his father singing ...