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Aaron Lebos Reality: Aaron Lebos Reality

Read "Aaron Lebos Reality" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Since coming together as a group in 2012, Aaron Lebos Reality has forged a musical permanence in Miami's culturally diversified music scene, performing a wide range of jazz, funk, rock, R&B, Latin and world styles of music. Though guitarist Lebos, leader of the band, has several albums to his credit, the self-titled Aaron Lebos Reality is ...

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Alex Snydman: Fortunate Action

Read "Fortunate Action" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Guitarist-turned-drummer Alex Snydman left behind an established East Coast presence in the Massachusetts and New York area jazz scenes for graduate studies at The California Institute of the Arts and, while in Los Angeles, has produced his very first album as leader with the highly audacious Fortunate Action. A student of Joe La Barbera, Bob Gullotti ...

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Tribute Trio: Dedications, Vol. II

Read "Dedications, Vol. II" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The Tribute Trio--John Rangel, piano; Michael Glynn, bass; Cal Haines, drums--was formed in 2010 to do exactly that: pay tribute to some of the legendary pianists who have helped create and enrich the history of jazz. The trio's two albums to date, Dedications, Vols 1 and 2 (Self Produced) have earned “Best Jazz CD" honors (2012, ...

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Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live At The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Read "Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live At The Philadelphia Museum of Art" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

In a period of profound artistic expansion and change in jazz, with labels like ECM, Winter & Winter and Pirouet and countless self- produced recordings erasing and redrawing genre lines, is it even proper (or even necessary) to celebrate the time tested, the mainstream, the old fashioned purveyors of the music? Is there a need for ...

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Rebecca Harrold: The River of Life

Read "The River of Life" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Pianist/composer Rebecca Harrold is a single-handed reminder of the charms of early “new age" piano music while, at the same time, taking it to a different, more melodically complex level, on her debut, The River Of Life, a spiritually inspired collection of original compositions. Harrold has had her thumb in many musical pies, including the female ...

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Leo Blanco: Pianoforte

Read "Pianoforte" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

The title of Leo Blanco's third album, Pianoforte, makes it clear: this is just one man and one piano. But it's an exceptional instrument, played by an exceptional musician.Blanco's 2009 album Africa Latina (Ayva Musica) and 2004's self-produced Roots & Effect featured international ensembles including guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Peter Slavov, saxophonist Dave Liebman ...

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The Caravan: The Caravan

Read "The Caravan" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

The Caravan, the self-titled second album from a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based hybrid hip hop trio, has attracted attention for the track “What Up Steve?." It's a new kind of political protest record for Canada, a reaction to the new kind of conservative politics practiced by the Stephen Harper administration. But “What Up Steve?," whatever its effectiveness, ...

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Nicola Milan: Forbidden Moments

Read "Forbidden Moments" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

It should be no wonder that Australia produces musicians whose art reflects a broad blend of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Perth native Nicola Milan refers to the genre to which her brand of music belongs, Australasian jazz, and her own pedigree as Welsh/Anglo-Indian. That is every bit as exotic and humidly appealing as the self-description ...

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Jean René Mourot: EP

Read "EP" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The début solo recording of French pianist Jean-René Mourot features a mature artist with a clear aesthetics and musical vision. The classically trained Mourot turned to popular music after his initial training and only later studied jazz and improvisation with American pianist and educator Eric Watson, a close associate of the great saxophonist Steve Lacy.

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Mercedes Nicole: Beautiful Alignment

Read "Beautiful Alignment" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Nina Simone all make appearances in the biography of Seattle-based singer Mercedes Nicole. She has been a creative face in jazz since the turn of the century, writing, producing and performing tributes to Simone, Etta James, and Dinah Washington. With Beautiful Alignment, Nicole debuts on disc with a collection ...


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