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Nomadic
By Tomas Janzon
Label: Changes Music - Tomas Janzon
Released: 2023
Track listing: Out Door Valley; Rob’s Piano; Night Watch; Letter from JSB; Search for Peace; Valse Hot;
Subconscious Lee/Hot House; Ascending; Uncovering; Blue Frog Return; Pressing Forward.
Guitar Reviews: Michael Musillami, Tomas Janzon and Rafael Rosa
by Jerome Wilson
Here are some interesting recent releases that all feature guitarists, either as bandleaders or sidemen. Michael Musillami Trio Block Party Playscape 2023 Michael Musillami's trio with Joe Fonda on bass and George Schuller on drums has been around since 2003. In that time they have released ten albums, ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...
Litchfield Jazz Festival 2023
by Paul Reynolds
Litchfield Jazz Festival The Frederick Gunn School Washington CT July 28 to July 30, 2023 It's fitting that a festival set in a location as venerable-sounding as the Litchfield Hills deeply respects tradition. That commitment starts with the music styles it presents. While the Litchfield Jazz Festival isn't averse to going ...
Tomas Janzon: Nomadic
by Jack Bowers
Nomadic, Tomas Janzon's sixth album as leader, is a pleasant, easy-going session that benefits greatly from the presence, on half a dozen tracks, of the superb vibraphonist Steve Nelson who adds substance and color to what is essentially a quartet or trio session wherein Janzon's mellow guitar carries much of the weight. There ...
David Hazeltine: Inversions
by C. Andrew Hovan
It's often said that those with enviable skills make the most sophisticated actions look easy. Be it glass blowing or ice-skating, what appears to be within the grasp of the novice often involves an underlying complexity not readily apparent at first. The same could be said of higher forms of music such as classical and jazz. ...
Thank You, Duke!
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore;
In a Sentimental Mood;
Day Dream;
Sophisticated Lady;
Isfahan;
In a Sentimental Mood;
Chromatic Love Affair;
Mood Indigo;
Come Sunday;
The Feeling of Jazz.
Naama Gheber's Detours Lead Straight To Jazz Career
by Jim Trageser
There is no “normal" journey to becoming an established, professional musician. Every path is different; each story one of a kind. But some are perhaps more different than most. Naama Gheber's surely ranks among those in the “more different" category: not many jazz singers began their adult years by serving as an ...
Crisis
By Louis Hayes
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Arab Arab; I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over; Desert Moonlight; Where Are You?; Creeping Crud; Alien Visitation; Crisis; Oxygen; It's Only a Paper Moon
Louis Hayes: Crisis
by Jack Bowers
Louis Hayes--who has been a force in jazz drumming for more than sixty years, anchoring legendary groups led by Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, among others--has assembled a quintet of New York City's finest for Crisis, wherein he pays musical tribute to some of his jazz colleagues, past and present, ...
