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Iro Haarla Quintet - Vespers (2011)
With nearly 1,800 posts under our belt, we at SER have covered a whole lot of different styles, players and instruments, but based on a cursory search, I haven't found a single piece where a harpist is the featured musician. We now have that covered: meet Iro Haarla. Actually, one of Finland's finest is a pianist ...
ZZ Top - Live in Germany (2011)
When ZZ Top, tearing through “Waiting for the Bus," howls “have mercy!" in tandem, I'm right there with them. It's been easy to forget what this band sounded like before pasting a sheen of MTV-approved synthesizers over their nasty little amalgam of blues, rock and long-haired Texas-bred don't-give-a-damn. Not anymore: Recorded in 1980, when ZZ Top ...
Seabrook Powerplant - Seabrook Powerplant II (2011)
It used to be that when we used the term “punk jazz," we were referring to Jaco Pastorius. Let's face it, the man was a jazz bass revolutionary. But over the years—and concurrent with with Jaco's career—the idea of what jazz can be was expanded by the likes of John Zorn's downtown New York cohorts and ...
Swingadelic - The Other Duke: Tribute to Duke Pearson (2011)
Better known for helping shape the Blue Note Records hard bop sound as a producer in the 1960s, pianist Duke Pearson also led his own big band before succumbing to the ravages of multiple sclerosis at age 47. Pearson displayed an underrated flair for unconventional arranging in a setting that couldn't have been further from his ...
Tim Kuhl - Doomsayer (2011)
Tim Kuhl's website greets visitors with a set of simple sentences describing who he is: “Drummer+Composer," followed by “Bandleader, Sideman, Collaborator, Noise Maker, Rocker." Tim is succinct and up-front about describing himself, but the term that's most telling—aside from the obvious “drummer+composer" part—is “Noise Maker." “Noise" has negative connotations in most contexts, but within the realm ...
Irvin Mayfield - A Love Letter to New Orleans (2011)
Putting together a luxe coffee-table book honoring the city of his birth clearly got Irvin Mayfield in a nostalgic mood. Those unfamiliar with Mayfield's intriguing blend of Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz with island and Mardi Gras Indian polyrhythms are the beneficiaries, as Mayfield also compiled a greatest-hits CD of his work under the same title—A Love ...
Pat Metheny Group - The Way up (2005)
By Mark Saleski Much like those pointless negative reviews where the writer (read: attacker) has never liked the band in question, I sometimes wonder if maybe it's just not right to go on about my favorite artists. Let's face it, I own just about every recording Pat Metheny has ever produced. Solo records. Sideman projects. Film ...
Mathias Eick - Skala (2011)
Mathias Eick's warm, pure trumpet tone sounding almost like a brassier counterpart to fellow Norwegian Jan Garbarek makes Eick a perfect addition to the Scandinavian squadron of the ECM army. Skala follows by three years his debut, also on ECM, The Door. Eick had already recorded for the label as a sideman, including Manu Katché's excellent ...
Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz and Miskiewicz - Trio (2005)
By Mark Saleski Back in the mid-1980s, the arrival on the jazz scene of a trumpeter named Wynton Marsalis marked the start of the so-called “young lions" period. Marsalis, along with the like-minded Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove and several others, put a (slightly) fresh spin on jazz from the Miles Davis classic quartet years. Some thought ...
Jeff Golub Band, Featuring Henry Butler - The Three Kings (2011)
Jeff Golub, a longtime sideman with Rod Stewart and Billy Squier, has compiled the expected all-star amalgam in this tribute to the blues stylings of The Three Kings—Albert, B.B. and Freddie. Yet it is his guitar work, canny and sharp-edged, that holds everything together. Golub's playing is comprehensive in scope—stinging and raw when it needs to ...
