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Abigail Riccards: When The Night Is New
by Woodrow Wilkins
Young female jazz vocalists often launch their recording careers with fresh interpretations of standards. While some of these ventures are successful, it all too often happens that we never hear from these divas again. Hopefully, that will not be the case with Abigail Riccards, whose When the Night Is New certainly fits the mold left by ...
Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs
by Woodrow Wilkins
Every year, music listeners are inundated with “new releases of Christmas music. Invariably, these celebrations include a collection of songs everyone has heard scores of times. So what sets one version of “Silent Night apart from another? The arrangement. Enter Tobias Gebb, drummer, arranger, producer and composer. Gebb, a native of the west ...
Linda Ciofalo: Sun Set
by Woodrow Wilkins
"Sunny, in addition to being a description of the weather, can be used in reference to a positive disposition. Linda Ciofalo creates a sunny atmosphere with Sun Set. Complemented by a small ensemble of sidemen, she delivers an album worthy of Janis Siegel or Tierney Sutton. Inspired by a televised appearance of the legendary ...
Tain & the Ebonix: Folk's Songs
by Woodrow Wilkins
There are tribute albums, and then there's Folk's Songs, Jeff “Tain Watts' debut release on Dark Key Music under the group name Tain & the Ebonix. Rather than the typical collection of remakes, Watts delivers seven original compositions among the ten songs that honor people who have influenced and inspired him. Tain & ...
Lisa Hilton: New York Sessions
by Woodrow Wilkins
There was “The Dream Team, a collection of NBA players who filled most of the slots on the USA basketball team for the 1992 Olympics. Then there was “the dream team, high-priced lawyers who helped O.J. Simpson get acquitted of murder charges. For Lisa Hilton, the dream team is made up of four jazz musicians who ...
Mark Weinstein: Con Alma
by Woodrow Wilkins
There's a common word of advice often given to beginning authors: “Write what you know. It's a suggestion that the aspiring novelist would do best by writing about things that are familiar, such as personal experiences. If such advice were followed by musicians, life would be quite boring. If Mark Weinstein had stuck to what he ...
Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs
by Jerry D'Souza
Christmas is not only a time for goodwill, it is also the time for a slew of recordings that rework the music of the season. The music has been recorded in every conceivable genre and the beat still goes on. And now, Trio West offers their version of eleven tunes. Eldad Zvulun (piano), Tobias ...
Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise: The Song Within
by John Kelman
If Olivier Messiaen had written music with a pulse, it might have sounded something like Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise. The Israeli-born, UK-based drummer has been honing a personal vision with this trio for over five years, and The Song Within is the group's best disc yet. Sirkis has retained a consistent line-up--church ...
Ryan Keberle Double Quartet Live at CIM
The Ryan Keberle Double Quartet is back at it next Friday, November 16th, at the Center for Improvisational Music (CIM). We'll be playing music from my debut CD which continues to receive rave reviews (an article on trombonist/recording artists just came out in the October Issue of JazzIz magazine which has some very nice things to ...
Alper Yilmaz: Clashes
by Jerry D'Souza
Bassist, composer and arranger Alper Yilmaz chooses to profile the compositions on his debut release as leader by using two quintets with the same instrumentation. One has musicians from Istanbul, the other from New York. Michael McGinnis is the exception, being the only common member besides Yilmaz. While this is interesting, the impact can only come ...
