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Matana Roberts - Live in London (2011)
A few years ago when I sat down and took a stab at identifying some up and coming women in a world of instrumental jazz still dominated by men, one of those ten names that came to mind was avant-garde saxophonist Matana Roberts. After moving to NYC from her Windy City hometown she finally led a ...
Forgotten Series: Paul Motian - I Have the Room Above Her (2005)
By Mark Saleski You wouldn't suppose that most musicians would look favorably upon being compared to an old pile of rocks. How about an old, organized pile of rocks? This isn't some kind of clever reviewer trick. Honestly, it's just a coincidence. While giving Paul Motian's I Have The Room Above Her the first listen, I ...
Booker T. Jones - The Road to Memphis (2011)
His name is linked forever with the town, and the sound, of Memphis. But Booker T. Jones' influence moves beyond Beale, into hip hop and today's rhythm-and-blues—something that's underscored on The Road to Memphis, co-produced by The Roots drummer/bandleader ?uestlove and out today on Anti- Records. Not that Jones, a three-time Grammy winner and Rock and ...
Claire Ritter - The Stream of Pearls Project (2011)
There is a sensuous, lush quietude to this recording, which notes on the front that it was “inspired by water." Ritter's playing—trickling and ruminative one moment, bubbly and adventurous the next—certainly echoes the theme. The Stream of Pearls Project, available for purchase through Ritter's Web site, eventually encompasses trips she took from Boston's Charles River ("The ...
Dave Juarez - Round Red Light (2011)
For a musician who has devoted his life since early childhood toward his craft and studied for many years as well as earning his stripes in the bars of the great jazz cities of the world, the release of that first album has to be a feeling of relief, elation and accomplishment. That day came for ...
Something Else! Sneak Peek: P.J. Pacifico, "Waiting" (2011)
By Nick DeRiso With a piano signature that mimics rain water trickling from a downspout, and an easy-going, almost confidential delivery that sounds like a softer Toad the Wet Sprocket (or a tougher Gin Blossoms?), P.J. Pacifico's “Waiting" couldn't seem more confectionary. At first, anyway. Though his subject matter seems firmly ensconced in the golden crushes ...
Bill Frisell - The Intercontinentals (2003)
By Tom Johnson Bill Frisell has become one of the most easily recognizable guitarists in jazz, and it's not without an effort to incorporate himself into as many styles as one person could in a lifetime. Few guitarists in any genre could pull off the feat of having played in nearly every style imaginable—metal, ambient, acoustic, ...
Larry Coryell - With the Wide Hive Players (2011)
While we've talked about a lot of fusion guitarists over the last five years, this is about a new album by the first one. That's right, though John McLaughlin is widely regarded as the guy who shaped and defined jazz-rock guitar, no one was successfully reconciling the two elements into a coherent, identifiable playing style before ...
Something Else! Sneak Peek: The Headhunters, "Tracie" (2011)
The Headhunters have completed an ambitious new jazz release—one that continues to push the edges of fusion, incorporating hip hop and funk with the presence of Snoop Dogg and George Clinton, yet still retains the band's fonky core sound. That's perhaps nowhere better heard than on this standout track from Platinum, to be issued by the ...
From the Stacks 2011, Vol. 4: The Cookers, Jon Lundbom, Shane Endsley, Others
By S. Victor Aaron This year's fourth installment of From The Stacks is, as has been the pattern, all jazz. But it's jazz in its many incarnations, from straight ahead post-bop to whack jazz. The protagonists here range from experienced old vets to hungry young newcomers. The common element among all six of these new releases ...
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