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Article: Album Review

CLAZZ Ensemble & Frank Carlberg: Federico on Broadway

Read "Federico on Broadway" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
November 21, 2012

Pianist/composer Frank Carlberg teams up with the Netherlands-based Clazz Ensemble for some truly off-kilter and wryly humorous musical mayhem on Federico on Broadway. Like Willem Breuker and Carla Bley, Carlberg's music has roots in the avant- garde but has gravitated slowly towards the tonal. Like Bley and Breuker, Carlberg has a humorous streak, and he's fond ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Skip Heller: Fakebook II - That’s Entertainment

by C. Michael Bailey
November 21, 2012

Skip HellerFakebook II: That's EntertainmentWeatherbird Records2012 Fred Steven “Skip" Heller is one of those musicians with a gravity great enough to create his own universe. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, bandleader, producer and writer with an all-encompassing musical knowledge, interest and vision that is readily witnessed ...

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RJ Spangler Trio: This Is What We Do

Read "This Is What We Do" reviewed by Steve Bryant

by Steve Bryant
November 21, 2012

Detroit has always been a home for a multitude of jazz traditions. From big band to swing, from hard bop to the avant-garde, any jazz style can be heard in a given week. The city has especially embraced the organ trio, that staple of neighborhood joints found throughout the urban landscape. Veteran drummer and bandleader RJ ...

Article: Album Review

Danny Green: A Thousand Ways Home

Read "A Thousand Ways Home" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 21, 2012

Danny Green delivers his second album as leader with A Thousand Ways Home mirroring the same design he employed for his impressive debut With You In Mind (Alante, 2008). With a strong affinity for Brazilian, classical and jazz music, the San Diego pianist touched upon each of the genres in his first recording and continues his ...

News: Recording

Muthawit Returns To The Post-2012 Election Musical Battlefield With The Epic Socio-Political Firebomb Recording, PMS Junkie

November 21, 2012

Boston Fielder’s musical collective releases irresistible set of original avant rock, electronic n soul songs on URB ALT Media What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that’s what Muthawit is doing" - MTViggy “MuthaWit featuring Boston Fielder is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis ...

Article: Album Review

Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan

Read "Dirigo Rataplan" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
November 20, 2012

In today's crowded jazz market, it's an achievement to come up with a signature group sound. And yet, this is just one of the wonderful things immediately apparent on Devin Gray's Dirigo Rataplan. An amazing percussionist, Gray's stunningly detailed playing sounds like a cross between Fritz Hauser and Roy Haynes.He flashes some serious compositional ...

Article: Album Review

Jana Herzen: Passion Of A Lonely Heart

Read "Passion Of A Lonely Heart" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 20, 2012

Numerous artists, both famous and relatively obscure, have found a recording home on the Motéma Music imprint. Every musician on the roster, from pianist extraordinaire Monty Alexander and veteran bassist Rufus Reid to newcomer-turned-vocal star Gregory Porter, has benefited from head honcho Jana Herzen's attention to detail, tireless promotional efforts and label largesse; every artist, that ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Robinson: Tiresian Symmetry

Read "Tiresian Symmetry" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 20, 2012

Composer and reed player Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers, and Tiresian Symmetry is no different. It is more ambitious than his previous large ensemble project, The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform, 2010), but still draws inspiration from Greek mythology. This time he was inspired by the mythical ...

Article: Album Review

Leni Stern: Smoke, No Fire

Read "Smoke, No Fire" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
November 20, 2012

In March, 2012, a military coup overthrew the government in the western African nation of Mali, disrupting life for the civilian population--repetitively the victims in such situations of political turmoil. Guitarist Leni Stern was living in Mali at the time of the coup, and though she could have departed the country, she decided to stay and ...

News: Award / Grant

Berklee's Danilo Perez Named UNESCO Artist For Peace

November 20, 2012

Danilo Perez, renowned pianist and artistic director of Berklee College of Music's Global Jazz Institute, was named a UNESCO Artist for Peace at a ceremony held today in Paris, France. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization describes Artists for Peace as “internationally renowned personalities who use their influence, charisma, and prestige to help promote UNESCO's ...