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Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings
by C. Michael Bailey
Youthful precociousness is one thing. There is typically an element of immaturity present. Fully developed and evolved at a young age is something else entirely. Israeli Dida Pelled has emerged fully formed as singer and instrumental soloist in New York City, after completing her obligation to the Israeli military and relocating there (not unlike fellow countryman/saxophonist ...
Dida Pelled: Plays And Sings
by Dan Bilawsky
While no “one size fits all" prescription exists for molding and educating unique artists, some schools seem to have an exceptional track record. A large segment of the who's who of jazz greats from Detroit went through Cass Technical High School and more than a few Texas jazz titans received their education at Booker T. Washington ...
Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions
by Gordon Marshall
Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...
Burning Gums - Burning Gums (2011)
A stylistic tour de force, this self-titled trio effort manages to take in many of jazz music's most notable influences, even tosses in a dash of Pacific island flavor, but it never falls into the rote imitative traps of so many of today's more traditionalist recordings. That's a credit to Burning Gums' executive producer Ron Jackson, ...
Lee Jones: Songs From The 13th Hour
by Douglas Payne
This enjoyable and engaging album--guitarist Lee Jones's second as a leader--aims to throw some much-needed wrinkles in to the smoothness of so much contemporary jazz. That's not really newsworthy, of course, but hardly anyone thus far has succeeded in doing it so successfully. While so many of today's new breed of jazz guitarists are ...
Take Five With PT Gazell
by AAJ Staff
Meet PT Gazell: Hot, swingin, smooth, original, clean, lyrical, faster than a speeding bullet, diatonically chromatic, one of a kind, masterful, the swingingest, Oh yeah, like what? Nat “King} Cole, Benny Goodman, Louis Jordan, Ben Webster, Harry “Sweets" Edison, Wes Montgomery, Tiny Moore...that's what! Dig it. PT Gazell--American master of the ...
Jamie Ruben: Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene
by Hrayr Attarian
Canadian composer/guitarist Jamie Ruben's debut, Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene, is a very atmospheric affair, but its stylistic intricacies are not at the expense of substance. Although the opener, “AQ Giraffe," is short on improvisation, its almost Hawaiian-sounding heavy groove serves as a good introduction that sets the theme for the rest of the record. The lazy nocturnesque “Pennapa," on ...
Terrence Brewer: Setting The Standard, Volume One
by Edward Blanco
San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Terrence Brewer offers his fifth recording as leader with Setting The Standard, Volume One, documenting the first volume of a project that delivers new arrangements and fresh interpretations of standards from the past. Applying a classic straight-ahead approach to music from legendary composers like Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington ...
Borneo Jazz 2011
by Ian Patterson
Borneo JazzMiri, Sarawak, BorneoMay 12-15, 2011 Borneo Jazz--known as the Miri International Jazz Festival for the previous five editions--has undergone a certain amount of rebranding in an effort to promote its growing stature as one of the leading jazz festivals in the region. This year the festival has increased from two to ...
Nat Janoff: Come Together Move Apart
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist Nat Janoff's Come Together Move Apart appears over a decade after his critically-applauded debut, Looking Through (Independent Records,1999). He's not been idle during the intervening years, but his recorded output has been sporadic. That's to be regretted, for Janoff's playing is a delight, and his fellow musicians on this album are some of the brightest ...
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