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Lela Kaplowitz: Lela & Joe Kaplowitz - With Every Breath

Read "Lela & Joe Kaplowitz - With Every Breath" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 3, 2013

Croatian singer Lela Kaplowitz sings con brio and gleeful abandon. Eastern Europe has always been a hotbed terrain for big band music, with creativity exploding after the end of the Cold War. Kaplowitz and her husband/pianist/arranger Joe Kaplowitz emerge fully formed and swinging on With Every Breath. The pair employ the wares of the Croatian Radio-Television ...

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Chris Massey & The NJP: Whosoever

Read "Whosoever" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 3, 2013

Drummer Chris Massey's debut--Vibrainium (Self Produced, 2011)--was an Art Blakey-influenced quintet date that put a modern slant on the hard bop tradition; this follow-up follows the same guidelines, but puts a greater emphasis on the modern. Massey tips his cap to those who came before him by including an always-in-style standard ("Old Devil ...

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A Lil' Smoky

April 3, 2013

Album: Freedom - Thoughts in Sound
By Cameron Turner
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 7:42

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Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds

Read "Every Eight Seconds" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 1, 2013

Debut recordings can sometimes suffer from a little too much subservience to the jazz cannon, as musicians perhaps wish to stamp their jazz credentials from the get go, or as is the case with Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens' Every Eight Seconds they can announce a refreshingly personal voice. Sheen--a former student of pianists Fred ...

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Caswell Sisters featuring Fred Hersch: Alive In The Singing Air

Read "Alive In The Singing Air" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 1, 2013

Sibling acts in jazz are fairly common, but sister acts are not. The Brothers Dorsey, Jones, Montgomery, Heath, Brecker, and Marsalis are familiar to any jazz fan with a passing knowledge of the music's history, but female counterparts are scarce. Thankfully, that trend is changing, proving that jazz is not a man's--or brother's--world. Today, we have ...

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Unbelievable

April 1, 2013

Album: unbelievable
By Andres v Lopez
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 5:02

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Jonathan Suazo: Extracts of a Desire

Read "Extracts of a Desire" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
March 31, 2013

Albums by bassist Joan Torres ( Before, self-produced, 2012)) and guitarist Gabriel Vicens (Point in Time, self-produced, 2012) give every indication of a burgeoning jazz renaissance in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Marked by technical proficiency, these players have matter-of-factly eschewed New York and set about to build a scene in San Juan.Among the most ...

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Jeremy Woolhouse: The Persistence of Dreaming

Read "The Persistence of Dreaming" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 31, 2013

Dreams and reality have an odd relationship that's neither completely antagonistic nor complementary; either one can influence the other, as thoughts bleed across different worlds in obvious or subtle fashion, but they exist in separate realms. Minute-to-minute, real life actualities and imagined, in-the-mind occurrences are inextricably linked, yet permanently separated by an impassable divide, and this ...