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Carline Ray: Vocal Sides

Read "Vocal Sides" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2013

Vocalist Carline Ray has a musical reach that extends to the beginning of jazz. Her father played in James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra in the early years of the 20th Century. Juilliard-trained (as her father was) Ray sang and played guitar and bass in a variety of formats in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Erskine ...

News: Performance / Tour

Free Summer Jazz Concerts 3rd Thursdays In South Philly!

June 1, 2013

Jazz Bridge is partnering with the Friends of Hawthorne Park to present Jazz at Hawthorne Park, a FREE summer concert series at 12th and Catharine Streets (in South Philadelphia) on the third Thursday of every month this summer. Bring a chair and prepare to groove with the Mike Boone/John Swana Project on June 20th, the Renaissance ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bonerama to Play Sunday, June 23 at Broadway Oyster Bar

June 1, 2013

The New Orleans band Bonerama is returning to St. Louis for another gig, this time at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, June 23 at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The group's rocked-out take on the NOLA brass band tradition features an all-trombone front line plus rhythm section. They last played St. Louis in September 2012 at The Gramophone. This ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 31-June 6

June 1, 2013

Patios are open, lilacs have bloomed, our first summer storms have thundered through. It's time for outdoor band concerts, neighborhood festivals, and always, more music. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 31. After taking a maternity break, Nichola Miller is back on stage, swinging and sassy as ever. I caught her “return" gig at Hells' Kitchen ...

Article: Album Review

Kin Trio: Breathe

Read "Breathe" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 31, 2013

The Kin Trio--saxophonist Sunjae Lee, bassist Andre St. James, drummer Tim DuRoche--call what they do “minimalist bebop." An apparent oxymoron, given that bebop has such maximalist tendencies (exhibit A is trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's dizzying “Bebop"). They don't mean to be taken so literally, of course. The Kin-men have ably absorbed the sparer offshoots ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Greco Quartet: Trane Of Thought

Read "Trane Of Thought" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 31, 2013

This record isn't an out-and-out tribute to saxophonist John Coltrane. The title--and title track--may suggest that it's all about that legendary figure, and the album-ending “Soul Eyes" serves as a secondary nod of affirmation, but saxophonist/multi-reedist Chris Greco doesn't just plant his flag on Coltrane's domain and call it a day. Sure, he delivers probing and ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Marbin: Last Chapter of Dreaming

by Dave Wayne
May 31, 2013

Back in the 1970s, fusion used to mean one thing; the melding of jazz improvisation and chord structures with the stylistic eclecticism and pure energy of progressive rock. As a recognizable formula emerged, it became common to hear the exotic strains of various ethnic musics in a jazz-rock fusion context. By the late '70s, its emphasis ...

Article: Album Review

Carol Duboc: Smile

Read "Smile" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 31, 2013

Is there a listening market for adult contemporary music. For lack of a better categorization, that is what Carol Duboc provides on her seventh release, the all-original Smile which she co-produces with Keyboardist Jeff Lober--and produce they do.Smile is sonically, a perfectly quaffed and lushly presented collection of ten hook-filled, expertly sculpted songs that ...

News: Recording

BluJazz Label Releases Jamie Breiwick's "Spirits"

May 31, 2013

Artist: Jamie Breiwick Album: Sprits Label: BluJazz Release Date: May 4th, 2013 LISTEN TO SPIRITS Open the door on the album cover and you enter the Jazz Estate, a Milwaukee club that exemplifies a venue that nurtures modern straight-ahead jazz and makes money at it. This recording was ...

News: Recording

David Jacobs-Strain To Release New CD "Geneseo"

May 31, 2013

NEW DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN ALBUM, GENESEO, SET FOR RELEASE JUNE 25TH “His acoustic and electric guitar work is crisp and driven, and his voice can rise to a soulful pitch or fall quietly in sync with a loping beat. His imagery-rich tales—well, it’s not hard to imagine some of them being covered by the likes of John ...