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Article: Extended Analysis

John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem

by John Eyles
April 12, 2014

The music on the double CD Tandem (remastered) was all previously available on two single Emanem CDs, Tandem 1 and Tandem 2, released in 1996. They have now been withdrawn and replaced by this release. In the process the music has been programmed in a more sensible order and, as the album title highlights, the sound ...

Article: Album Review

Plymouth: Plymouth

Read "Plymouth" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 12, 2014

Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Mary Halvorson. The simple mention of these five names is probably enough to frighten some people away from this album and make others rush toward it with open ears. Each one of the aforementioned musicians has a reputation for being a musical provocateur, pushing buttons, pushing the ...

Article: Album Review

Les Sabler: Jobim Tribute

Read "Jobim Tribute" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 12, 2014

Canadian guitarist and vocalist Les Sabler is accustomed to playing the lighter side of jazz as an established and prominent Smooth jazz artist with a particular fancy for the bossa nova. On a very special homage album, Jobim Tribute, the guitarist provides a delicious taste of Brazil by exploring select music from Antonio Carlos Jobim, arguably, ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration Deluxe Edition

by John Kelman
April 12, 2014

A star-studded show celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, televised around the world thirty years after the release of his first Columbia recording, 1962's Bob Dylan, could have been seen as swan song; after all, Dylan was in a period of songwriting inactivity that would last from 1990 through to his potent reemergence with 1997's Time ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem

by C. Michael Bailey
April 12, 2014

Bruce Haynes, in his book The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2007) states: “More than anything else, Authenticity seems to be a statement of intent. Totally accurate historic performance is probably impossible to achieve. To know it has been achieved is ...

Article: Album Review

The Who: Tommy Deluxe Edition 2013

Read "Tommy Deluxe Edition 2013" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
April 12, 2014

The white-hot intensity with which The Who play their rock opera on the second deluxe edition almost, but not quite, renders moot any reservations about the concept of the package. Far from merely coasting in the afterglow of the appearance at Woodstock that galvanized the band as much as the audience, the quartet sounds flush with ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 11-17

April 12, 2014

Those rumors of spring might be true! At least in the jazz neighborhood, it will be a hot weekend with enough sizzle to keep us in melt-down mode through the week! And it is an eclectic week ahead— from CD releases from our “Minnesota Ellington" and “Magica Improvisado," an outstanding outstate gig, and an Orchestra Hall ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Quanta April

by C. Michael Bailey
April 11, 2014

April is no more the cruelest month than the moon is made of cheese. For consideration this month we have nine recordings from far and wide: Antonio Adolfo to Little Feat far and wide. Antonio Adolfo Rio, Choro, Jazz AAM Music 2014 Before there was ...

Article: Album Review

Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Read "Gathering Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 11, 2014

Multi-reedist Oran Etkin's first album--Kelenia (Motema Music, 2009)--fused Malian sounds and Jewish music with jazz. Its follow-up--Wake Up, Clarinet! (1-2-3-4 Go, 2010)--was geared toward kids. Now, for round three, Etkin has cast his net over a huge portion of the globe, pulling together, arranging, and morphing musical ideals he's encountered while touring through Asia, Israel, and ...

Article: Album Review

Humber Studio Jazz Ensemble: Another Parallel Reality

Read "Another Parallel Reality" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 11, 2014

The pundits who regularly question the vital signs of jazz would be well served to turn their ears toward the Humber Studio Jazz Ensemble. Almost two-dozen albums into a constantly evolving presence, Denny Christianson, the Director of Toronto's Humber Music Program, has been mentoring young musicians through their persistent reinventing of sound and process. The combined ...