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The Fat Babies: 18th & Racine
by Hrayr Attarian
Early jazz stylists The Fat Babies' second album 18th & Racine is bolder than their first in their choice of material and their delivery of the songs included. Encouraged by the successful execution of their debut Chicago Hot (Delmark 2012) the band presents 14 lesser-known gems and an original composition by their cornetist Andy Schumm. The ...
The Blue Note: Seattle’s Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History
by David Keller
The following is an excerpt from the preface of The Blue Note: Seattle's Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History by David Keller (Our House Publishing, 2013). This is a story about the hopes and dreams of a small group of African American men and women. They ran their own union in Seattle beginning ...
Helen Sung at Jazz Standard
by Ernest Barteldes
Helen Sung Jazz Standard New York, NYFebruary 12, 2014 The first set of the CD release celebration for Helen Sung's Anthem For A New Day (Concord, 2014), began with her original tune “Chaos Theory" that started with a percussive introduction by Samuel Torres with the quintet following in a theme that ...
Dave Stryker: Eight Track
by Jack Bowers
On Eight Track, New York-based guitarist Dave Stryker's quartet takes the listener back some forty years or so to a time when there actually were eight-track tape players, relics on which Stryker listened to jazz and popular tunes of the day, several of which are reanimated on this tasteful and smoothly swinging album. Some of these ...
February 28 WRTI Panel Discussion Anticipates Celebration Of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, And Sun Ra
On the evening of Thursday, February 21, as a prelude to an upcoming concert series, J. Michael Harrison, host of the long-running multi-genre program “The Bridge” on radio station WRTI-FM, taped a rich and provocative discussion of the innovative contributions of jazz icons Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and Sun Ra. These three key figures in the ...
Mike Bardash Quintet: Polygon
by Jack Bowers
Mike Bardash, who has been playing piano since age five and performing in and around the New York City area for more than a quarter-century, gets right down to “Brass Tacks" on Polygon, which, as far as can be determined, is the first full-length album he has recorded as leader of a group, in this case ...
The Allman Brothers Band: Play All Night
by Doug Collette
Much as the current Allman Brothers lineup had coalesced in 2003, the ensemble that came together in 1989 for the twentieth anniversary box set Dreams (Polydor, 1989) tour had tightened considerably (minus keyboardist /vocalist Johnny Neel) by the time they decided to engage in their first extended run at New York's Beacon Theatre and record themselves ...
Alexis P. Suter Band at Gwynedd Mercy University
by Wade Luquet
Alexis P. Suter Band Women in the Blues Gwynedd Mercy University Gwynedd Valley, PA February 7, 2014 A frozen night in Pennsylvania was made immensely warmer when the Alexis P. Suter Band took the stage at Gwynedd Mercy University in suburban Philadelphia. The bass-voiced blues diva electrified the crowd ...
Dewa Budjana: Joged Kahyangan
by Ian Patterson
A million-selling artist in Indonesia with pop-rock band Gigi, guitarist Dewa Budjana's solo projects informed by progressive rock, Indonesian folk and jazz fusion reveal a greater spirit of adventure. Budjana's second release of 2013 on the MoonJune label following Dawai in Paradise is similarly melodic, though differs significantly. Firstly, the word-fusion-meets-prog rock of Dawai in Paradise ...
Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Bach Motets
by C. Michael Bailey
Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into “before BCP" and after “BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the project taking place throughout the millennial year 2000. With his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner performed and recorded all of ...
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