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Mike Valeras Group: The Mike Valeras Group
by Todd S. Jenkins
This collective of Berklee grads harkens back to the heyday of fusion, offering an update of Eleventh House, Weather Report, the Headhunters and other such groundbreakers. Valeras and company illustrate the real promise for the future of jazz-rock on this debut disc. Valeras' guitar tone is appropriately acidic and overdriven much of the time, recalling McLaughlin ...
Jim Love: The Way of the Drum
by Todd S. Jenkins
Jim Love is a drummer with much of consequence to say, refreshing in a field flooded by Cobham and Weckl wanna-bes. A teacher, freelance percussionist and symphonic tympanist, Love combines a wealth of methodical knowledge with a clear creative vision. One listen to his melodic approach on the solo feature “An Introduction" verifies that he's seriously ...
Uri Caine / Christian McBride / Ahmir Thompson: The Philadelphia Experiment
by Todd S. Jenkins
Just what is it that makes Philadelphia such a darned soulful city? Is it all that brotherly love floating around, or the deep funk fermented by undying Phillies fandom? All the cholesterol in those cheesesteaks, maybe? Whatever the case, the city has a profound and enduring musical legacy, from Sun Ra to T.S.O.P., Grover Washington Jr. ...
Trio Fattoruso: Trio Fattoruso
by Todd S. Jenkins
Enlightening Uruguayan fusion for the new millennium. In the late 50s, young brothers Hugo and Jorge Fattoruso played in Uruguayan street festivals with their washtub-bassist father Antonio. A few years later the brothers founded the popular Latin-rock band Los Shakers, and eventually the New York fusion band Opa, which combined the traditional candombe rhythms of their ...
Miles Davis: Big Fun
by Todd S. Jenkins
One of the less-remembered, underappreciated releases in Miles’ discography, revamped for the new century and ready to open some ears. A few months after the Bitches Brew sessions that broke jazz-rock out like Phoenix from the flames, Miles Davis returned to the Columbia recording studios with the intent to push his music in yet another startling ...
Robin DiMaggio: Blue Planet
by Todd S. Jenkins
An attention-worthy drummer navigates the globe with Toto in tow. Robin DiMaggio is a superior percussionist with a deep appreciation for the world's musical styles, a vision admirably realized here on Blue Planet. Looking at the varicultured song titles, one might expect this project to be some cloying, pretentious attempt at New Age World Music. Fortunately, ...
Jeffrey Burr: Bright Blue
by Todd S. Jenkins
Jeffrey Burr's 2000 debut disc By Myself , a veritable masterpiece of solo jazz guitar, boldly declared the presence of a bright new voice. He has continued the excellence in trio format on Bright Blue , which stands as one of the finest mainstream guitar albums of the past couple of years. Burr's resumé includes jobs ...
Michael Lampert: Jacaranda
by Todd S. Jenkins
And now for something totally unexpected. Something along the lines of David Grisman or Mike Marshall's bluegrass-jazz might be anticipated from a jazz mandolinist, yes? But Michael Lampert is a master of the four-string electric mandolin, a rare beast indeed. Without the added sonority of the usual double-courses of strings, Lampert's instrument sounds much closer to ...
Jeff Richman & Friends: Live at the Baked Potato, Volume 1
by Todd S. Jenkins
Fusion’s finest come together to jam the night(s) away. In 1999, not long after Justin Randi (son of pianist/clubowner Don) opened the second Baked Potato in Hollywood, he and guitarist Jeff Richman discussed the idea of occasionally bringing some of the top names in contemporary jazz into the club to perform with Richman. That plan was ...
Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
by Todd S. Jenkins
Another Miles classic re-excavated with grand results. In A Silent Way was an astonishing step further towards a fusion of jazz and rock for Miles Davis, and for jazz in general, when it was released in 1969. The acoustic instruments of Davis, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Tony Williams were combined with John McLaughlin’s electric guitar, ...
