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Brian Charette: Alphabet City
by Bruce Lindsay
Alphabet City is organist Brian Charette's ninth album, titled for the part of Manhattan where he lives (in the building which featured on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, apparently). He's alongside guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Rudy Royston, both familiar names on numerous other releases for Posi-tone Records: a standard, though high quality, organ ...
Brian Charette: Alphabet City
by Dan Bilawsky
Organist Brian Charette brings his A-game to Alphabet City. But who would expect anything else from this consummate artist? After delivering a covers-heavy program with two different trio lineups on Good Tipper (Posi-Tone, 2014), Charette returns here with an all-originals outing that finds him in the company of guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Rudy Royston.
Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler: I Colored It In For You
by Dan Bilawsky
I Colored It In For You is such a tease. Broad-minded multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum uses this brief EP--the two-part title track and a remix from M.O.D. co-founder Bill Laswell are it--to introduces a sui generis small group known as Sparkler. Apfelbaum, covering vocals, keys, saxophones, and percussion, teams up with rising star trombonist/vocalist ...
Don't Cry for No Hipster
By Ben Sidran
Label: Nardis
Released: 2014
Track listing: Back Nine; Brand New Music; Don't Cry for No Hipster; At Least We Got to the Race; Can We Talk; In the Beginning; It Don't Get No Better; Dying Anyway; Private Guy; Reflections; Take a Little Hit; Sixteen Tons; Rich Interior Life; Hooglin'.
M.O.D. Technologies To Release Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler, I Colored It In For You, As Part Of Incunabula Digtal Series; Plus CD Release Party At Nublu, 12/10
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum (New York Hieroglyphics) introduces the debut track by his newest band, SPARKLER. Co-produced by Apfelbaum and Aaron Johnston (Brazilian Girls) and featuring Natalie Cressman (vocals, trombone) and Jill Ryan (vocals, alto sax), I Colored it in for You is a multidimensional electronic world music track with lyrics as Apfelbaum explains, “about the ...
Wil Blades: Groooooovin'
by R.J. DeLuke
"I love the blues," says Wil Blades, a Hammond B3 whiz who didn't come to the instrument until he left his hometown of Chicago and was going to college in California. He doesn't remember specific instances of being struck by a blues thunderbolt, but “I remember hearing it. It's part of the feeling I get when ...
Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown
by Angelo Leonardi
A partire dalla fine degli anni novanta, ovvero dal tempo dei suoi esordi da leader, Will Bernard s'è caratterizzato per il contagioso groove della sua musica, in uno spettro di situazioni che va dalle contaminazioni contemporanee al classico organ trio, reso celebre da Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery o Jack McDuff. A differenza di ...
Just Like Downtown
By Will Bernard
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Dime Store Thriller; Go West; Sweet Spot; Dancing Days; Little Hand; Safety In Numbers; Bali Hai; Route 46; P.M. Gone.
Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown
by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Will Bernard has been connected to a number of singular groups and individuals, from the Monk-to-funk outfit known as T.J. Kirk to New Orleans drumming giant Stanton Moore to multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum's boundary-pushing Hieroglyphics Ensemble, but a common denominator exists in his strongest work with each one: Bernard's best is always rooted in the groove. ...
Outdoor Living
By Will Bernard
Label: Dreck to Disk Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Nature Walk; Morgan Deux; Nooksack; 6B; Roaming Charges; Point Blank; Squeaky Chug
Chug; Katskan; Implitude.
