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Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence (2011)
As the poignant, expressive piano voice behind both of Adele's albums, Neil Cowley has a sound that seems immediately familiar. Yet he doesn't simply rely on that famous association to push along Radio Silence. As often as he performs with a similarly recognizable delightful grace (as on the title track and the “Portal"), Cowley also displays ...
Jake Saslow - Crosby Street (2011)
Born in Soho and raised mostly at Long Island, the sights, sounds and ways of the Big Apple were never foreign to tenor specialist Jake Saslow. Imbued with a strong jazz sensibility starting with growing up downstairs from Barry Altschul to learning from Terence Blanchard and Dave Liebman, Saslow's deeply lyrical but thoroughly modern sax dialect ...
J.J. Grey and Mofro - Brighter Days (2011)
Mofro's humid grooves, chicken-fried rhythms and finger-licking riffs might lure you to the table, but it's JJ Grey's rib-sticking, story-building lyrics that fill you up. This concert CD adds crackling new life to both elements of their new-classic back-porch soul, underscoring the idea that this is perhaps the best Southern band working. Grey, a native of ...
Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night (2003)
One night back in the late 1970s, me and my cousin Andy were playing a game of backgammon (cripes, that really was a long time ago ... I remember there was a Styx Grand Illusion poster on the wall and ... uh, anyway) ... he had this album playing on his turntable. The record itself had ...
Sung Jo - Dream (2011)
Sung Jo leads a quartet on Dream that walks a fine line—pushing at the edges of the jazz envelope, yet still swinging like crazy. The result is an album that has both narrative logic and these splashes of new sounds. The Houston, Texas-based guitarist begins working in perfect tandem with tenor saxophonist Woody Witt, performing as ...
Greg Ward - Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (2011)
About a year ago saxophonist Greg Ward was leading a quartet that was preparing to do a recording session for a jazz radio station when the pianist was unable to make it. The remaining three decided to go on preparing for and performing the session as a trio. The experience was stimulating to the remaining three, ...
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions (2011)
By Matt Reynolds The year was 1966, and the Beach Boys were riding a wave of energy across the musical landscape of the times. The Hawthorne, California quintet's sound was evolving into one of the most respected and unique in the industry after the release earlier that year of its now profoundly important album Pet Sounds. ...
Rez Abbasi's Invocation -- Suno Suno (2011)
There's a trance-like euphoria surrounding this emotional, at times indescribably spiritual endeavor. Rez Abbasi, leading a group that also includes Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer, found inspiration for Suno Suno from Pakistani Qawwali, a devotional Sufi music that was popularized in the West by singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. As with traditional gospel music, Qawwali is ...
The Curtis Brothers - Completion of Proof (2011)
The virile, confrontational jazz of the 1960s is reborn on the Curtis Brothers' Completeion of Proof. Siblings Luques and Zaccai Curtis perform in the brash, muscular style of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, even as they confront thorny moral issues with the same veracity as John Coltrane. Luques (bass) and Zaccai (piano) cement the Blakey connection by ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder will be honored this month as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, during a benefit concert to be held Nov. 11 in Hollywood. We'd like to add to that resume line: Messenger of Funk, Sweet Soul and Pure Unfettered Get Down. Don't believe us? Too young to remember? Let's take a spin through the ...
