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Enrico Rava - Tribe (2011)
On his last outing, trumpet master Enrico Rava was in a New York state of mind. This time, for Tribe, his head, heart—and most notably—his entire band is firmly back in his native Italy. Rava is, as been mentioned here a time or two before, is a jazz superstar in Italy (and Europe in general). In ...
Nils Petter Molvaer - Baboon Moon (2011)
I had come into writing this review thinking I had already reviewed the prior release by pioneering fusion jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, Hamada (2009), but found that I hadn't. Odd, because I sure listened to it enough times when it was new. Today this Norwegian's newest one, Baboon Moon is out, and this time we're ...
On Second Thought: Bill Frisell - Live (1995)
By Tom Johnson My creative writing teacher in college drilled into us the mantra “show don't tell." Don't tell people your character is heartbroken. Show them. Don't tell your readers that your character is sneaking into a room. Show them that he is insinuating himself there. The difference is between the product and the process. To ...
Andrey Dergatchev - The Return (2006)
By Mark Saleski There have been pieces of music in my past that have stirred such emotional resonance that I wondered if maybe the music was written for me. Thomas Newman's score for the film “American Beauty": I had to restart the DVD after 15 or 20 minutes because I just couldn't drag my attention away ...
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - Open Source (2011)
Long, long before Nels Cline had attained his current status as one of the most original, fearless and bad-assed electric guitarists around, he was an obscure twenty-something acoustic guitarist playing in a small, acoustic combo called Quartet Music, that made four record in the 80s, all currently our of print. This “mini-orchestra" also had in it ...
Nils Lofgren - Old School (2011)
You could forgive Nils Lofgren, best known these days as a 27-year member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, for issuing a contemplative record after such a difficult period. And there's some of that here. Yet, in the wake of losing both E Street saxophonist Clarence Clemons (who passed in June at age 69 from complications ...
Shows I'll Never Forget: Wilco and Calexico, Nov. 20, 2004
By Tom Johnson Wilco brought its amazing conglomerate of musicians to Tempe's Marquee Theatre in support of the terrific A ghost is born, with the equally talented, although unfairly publicly ignored opening act Calexico. The 45 minutes allotted to Calexico was far from enough, but the band made the most of it, packing their setlist with ...
RPM Orchestra - Afterglow (2010)
By Mark Saleski Being the musical egghead that I am, I tend to be very fond of Frank Zappa's thoughts on composition. In particular, the idea that anything can be music. Yes, anything—"Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to ...
Sultans of String - Move (2011)
What's intriguing about Move by Canada's Sultans of String isn't so much the dancing violins that skitter here and there, or even the fizzy guitars that seem to weave in and around this globe-trotting tapestry. It's the way the album, for all of its Spanish flamenco joys, great bossa flourishes and gypsy jazz mystery, does all ...
Dan Blake - Aquarian Suite (2011)
When taking in Julian Lage's uniquely poetic Gladwell earlier this year, I sensed something uncommonly creative about Lage's saxophonist, Dan Blake, and his ability to blend in flawlessly with a cello and play music that reconciled jazz and folk and classical music. He even contributed music that fit perfectly into this eclectic formula, with “However." But, ...
