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Various Artists: A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion Guitar
by John Kelman
Homage records can be tricky business. How to be reverent to the subject without being so imitative as to be completely superfluous? On that level, the sheer irreverence of A Guitar Supreme means that it doesn't have to worry about direct comparison to its source, the music of saxophone legend John Coltrane. But a proper tribute ...
Steve Smith and Vital Information: Come On In
by John Kelman
The benefit of a long-standing musical relationship is impossible to quantify, but needless to say there is a certain comfort level, a certain simpatico that results from playing together for the long term. Drummer Steve Smith's current incarnation of Vital Information, featuring guitarist Frank Gambale, keyboardist Tom Coster and bassist Baron Browne, has been together for ...
Jing Chi: 3D
by John Kelman
Following a 2003 release, Live at Yoshi’s , which leaned a little more towards the jazz side of the jazz-rock fence, Jing Chi returns with 3D , a pounding affair that places itself more firmly in the rock camp, influenced strongly by power groups from the late ‘60s and ‘70s including Cream, Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies, ...
Rachel Z: Everlasting
by John Kelman
Deconstructing popular contemporary songs seems to be the current flavour of the month. From the Bad Plus' rock-heavy interpretations of the Pixies to Brad Mehldau's inventive look at Radiohead, artists are realizing that not only is there a wealth of modern material out there to replace the Great American Songbook, but the approach has resulted in ...
Abracadabra
By Soft Works
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2003
Track listing: Seven Formerly; First Trane; Elsewhere; K Licks; Baker?s Treat; Willie?s Knee; Abracadabra;
Madame Vintage.
Jing Chi Live!
By Jing Chi
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2003
Track listing: That Road; Going Nowhere; The Hong Kong Incident; Stan Key; What Goes Around; Crazy House;
Cold Irons Bound; Blues MD.
Very Live at Ronnie Scott's
By Steve Smith
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2003
Track listing: Love for Sale,Nutville, Big Man Blues, Bopformation, How Do You Keep the Music Playing, The Pies
of A.Z., Manfredo's Fest, Ya Gotta Try, Moment's Notice, Airegin
Extraction
By Greg Howe
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2003
Track listing: Extraction; Tease; Crack It Way Open; Contigo; Proto Cosmos; A Delicacy; Lucky 7; Ease Up; Bird
GHS 3
Label: Tone Center
Released: 2003
Track listing: All In Your Head; The Great Roberto; Confuse-A-Blues; Saving Grace; Culture
Clash; Geo 100; November; The Challenger.
Soft Works: Abracadabra
by Todd S. Jenkins
Four legendary old friends reunite here to dig deeply into new material. On first listen it seems the energy level doesn't rise about a simmer much of the time, though Allan Holdsworth does kick things up a notch now and then. But repeated listens reveal the multiple layers of what is going on here, reminding us ...
