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Colin Edwin - Lorenzo Feliciati: Twinscapes

by John Ephland
April 20, 2014

From the bottom up, Twinscapes is a long time coming, and not just for bass players. Sonically, this 11-track suite plays on your ears and mind in ways that can defy gravity, combining soft audial touches to go along with earthy funk, the residue left a kind of smoke that lingers but filters, inevitably it seems, ...

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Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band: Mother’s Touch

Read "Mother’s Touch" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 20, 2014

The studio-versus-stage argument will forever rage on in music, but it really shouldn't. Each setting has its advantages and disadvantages. The jazz community has forever favored the stage, as many feel that jazz is meant to be experienced and created in the moment, with artist(s) feeding off the room and creating here-and-gone sounds. That preference is ...

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Andrew Hadro: For Us, The Living

Read "For Us, The Living" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 19, 2014

Abraham Lincoln had one eye on the past and the other on the present and future when he gave his famous Gettysburg Address. In that speech, celebrating its sesquicentennial when this album was recorded in 2013, Lincoln spoke of honoring the fallen, furthering what they started, and looking forward to “a new birth of freedom." As ...

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Recordings during War Time conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler

by C. Michael Bailey
April 19, 2014

German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886--1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both tacitly and unwittingly through the long-term efforts of Dr. Josef Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Socially and politically naïve, Furtwangler believed that German Art and ...

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Danny Fox Trio: Wide Eyed

Read "Wide Eyed" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 19, 2014

The Danny Fox Trio is a working band, which is something of a rarity these days. But for building a rapport and depth of communication, there isn't a substitute for touring together and working out the musical problems and over an extended period of time. This New York City-based piano trio that debuted with The One ...

Article: Live Review

LiV Warfield At B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill

by Mike Perciaccante
April 19, 2014

LiV Warfield B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, NY April 6, 2014 LiV Warfield's musical career began in her late teens when she moving away from her Peoria, IL home to Portland, Oregon. Working there with local musicians, she got her first taste of the ...

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Steven Kroon: On The # 1

Read "On The # 1" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 19, 2014

New York percussionist Steven Kroon offers a percussive-laden session of Afro-Cuban rhythms, a slice of Brazil and draws on his Nuyorican heritage for a taste of the Puerto Rican flair, in presenting On The # 1, the fifth self- produced album of this veteran musician's 45-year plus musical journey. Long a part of the jazz, blues, ...

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Psychedelic Furs At The Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
April 19, 2014

Psychedelic Furs The Paramount Huntington, NY April 12, 2014 The Psychedelic Furs burst on the scene and achieved its greatest successes during the 1980s. Its biggest success was when “Pretty in Pink" became a worldwide hit after being featured prominently in the John Hughes film of the same name. “Heartbreak Beat," ...

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Diane Moser Quintet: Music For The Last Flower

Read "Music For The Last Flower" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush
April 19, 2014

New Jersey pianist/composer Diane Moser created the music for Music for the Last Flower in 2003, with support from Chamber Music America, but only recorded it in 2012, in one day, no less, this time aided by a grant from New Music USA. This six-part suite flows effortlessly through a wide arc ...

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Jeff Denson & Joshua White: I'll Fly Away

Read "I'll Fly Away" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush
April 18, 2014

Jeff Denson has been alto saxophone legend Lee Konitz's bassist of choice for the past several years, and it's easy to see why on this superlative duet album of gospel music with the explosive pianist Joshua White, who, at age 28 appears ready to take the world by storm. White has almost twenty years of experience ...