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Steve Kuhn: Oceans in the Sky
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Recorded in 1989 for Owl Records and finally reissued, Oceans in the Sky is a timeless gem from impressionistic veteran pianist Steve Kuhn. Although he was John Coltrane's original pianist and worked with Stan Getz and Art Farmer, Kuhn's detour into electric piano, commercial music and accompaniment (most notably for Sheila Jordan) has to some extent ...
Rhoda Scott: The Hammond Organ Of Christmas
by Celeste Sunderland
Hammond-heads have a new reason to hail the holidays this season: Rhoda Scott's The Hammond Organ Of Christmas , a collection of 17 classic yuletide tunes that combines French faire with African-American spirituals. Scott recorded most of the album in Paris in 1977 alongside drummer Bill Elliott. But two tracks feature Houston Person on tenor saxophone, ...
Daniel Mille: Entre Chien et Loup
by Eric J. Iannelli
No doubt Daniel Mille got his share of flack for his chosen instrument while he was growing up. Actually, we know this to be the case: he abandoned the accordion at the age of 13 because his classmates' teasing became too much to bear. Like many of us, they saw the accordion not for its romantic ...
Steve Lacy: The Holy Ia
by Dan McClenaghan
The The Holy Ia opens – fittingly, for a Steve Lacy set – with a Thelonious Monk tune, "Shuffle Boil." In the sixties, soprano saxophonist Lacy teamed with trombonist Roswell Rudd in a quartet that performed Monk tunes exclusively; and the "straight horn" man is still one of the premier interpreters of the offbeat but supremely ...
Sunnyside Records
by Celeste Sunderland
A girl in a sailor dress skips rope. She's pretty, she's free, she's having fun. She's the logo for Sunnyside Records. Founder Francois Zalacain discovered her on a rubber stamp in a Greenwich Village shop 21 years ago. It says everything we want to say. Music is about bouncing' dancing. And my wife liked it."
Deidre Rodman: Simple Stories
by Celeste Sunderland
They crest along sound waves, escape between murmuring lips, and dwell within the subconscious. Simple stories exist in the space between black holes. They linger, provoke a smile or a tear, then get swallowed up into the abyss. On Simple Stories pianist/composer Deidre Rodman tells her tales with lush, personal, careful compositions. "Girl With ...
Deidre Rodman: Simple Stories
by Nic Jones
What's in a title? In the case of Simple Stories both everything and nothing, and repeated listenings fail to overcome the elusive quality of the music. Also, if there's some kind of underlying concept here, then that also remains equally elusive and – yes – secret. Part of the problem may lie in the lack of ...
Marc Mommaas: Global Motion
by Joshua Weiner
A note to ECM label head Manfred Eicher: I've got a new artist for your stable. His name is Marc Mommaas, a Dutch tenor saxophonist living in NYC, and he's just released a fine album on Sunnyside, Global Motion. The album features the Global Motion Trio, including pianist Nikolaj Hess and bassist John Hebert, ...
Ann Dyer: When I Close My Eyes
by Dan McClenaghan
Vocalist Ann Dyer pares away all the nonessentials and rides a subtle but inexorable tidal flow into a search for interior truths on When I Close My Eyes. The sound is spare, poetic, and haunting, the singer accompanied by just accoustic bass and drums for explorations of the darker levels of consciousness. The mood throughout feels ...
Laurent Coq Quartet: Like a Tree In the City
by Matt Merewitz
A celestial and surprisingly fresh sound emanates from the first moments of Like a Tree in the City, Laurent Coq's first release on the Sunnyside label. This side of the Atlantic, Coq plays with tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, bassist Brandon Owens, drummer Damion Reid. Their ability to gel and groove and drift all with a unified ...


