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Bug - The GADfly
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Bug are built around the talents of a handful of players, initially from the Los Angeles area, who have taken on elements of the West Coast sound but incorporate elements of their own structures, their own styles, and their new regions into their sound. More than that, though, this quintet draws on the individual talents of its members to form a series of strong textures. While the bandmembers have extended solos and explorations, there's a... read more
Benjamin Boone | Philip Levine - The Poetry of Jazz, Vol. 2
by Bradley Bambarger, Downbeat
The first release from the collaboration of saxophonist Benjamin Boone and Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Philip Levine struck an unexpected chord: The album placed No. 3 in last year's DownBeat Readers Poll. The Poetry Of Jazz, Volume Two was recorded at the same sessions that yielded the initial disc, held the year before the jazz-loving poet's death at age 87.
While the first album included Levine's poems about such jazz figures as Sonny... read more
Bryan Doherty - Rigamarole
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Bassist Bryan Doherty's debut album opens with a bass groove vaguely reminiscent of something Jaco Pastorius might have done in Weather Report. Over the top of this, what sounds like a couple of horns (though there's only one sax player) lay out a thick melodic line that eventually moves into a groove. This is the pattern for much of the album -- grooves that build to full compositions that devolve back into grooves. In "No Mode," the bass riffs... read more
Human Spirit - Dialogue
by Nick DeRiso, Something Else!
Human Spirit, a newly named Seattle-based jazz group with a lengthy history, offers an old-fashioned guest star-packed blowing session on Dialogue, recorded live at Tula's Jazz Club during Earshot Jazz Festival in October of last year.
The band's core trio of trumpeter Thomas Marriott (composer of half of the album's eight tunes), altoist Mark Taylor and drummer Matt Jorgensen are joined by Orrin Evans at the piano and Essiet... read more
Mimi Fox Organ Trio - One for Wes
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
4-STARS To mark the hundredth anniversary of the great Wes Montgomery's birth in March 1923, guitarist Mimi Fox has recorded One for Wes, an earnest tribute that consists of eight Montgomery-inspired tunes adeptly performed by Fox's San Francisco Bay-area organ trio with Brian Ho on Hammond B3 and Lorca Hart on drums.
As one might expect, there is a lot of blues, emotion and reverence in play, none of which detracts from the trio's... read more
Jon Hamar - Idyl Wild
by Dave Sumner, emusic
Likable quartet session from bassist Hamar, who runs with the double saxophone attack of tenor man Rich Perry and altoist Todd DelGiudice. With Julian MacDonough rounding out the rhythm section, it?s a nice set of straight-ahead jazz. Some post-bop burn, some hard bop bounce, and tracks that keep throwing pitches within the strike... read more
Ben Paterson - For Once In My Life
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
There's always room for another swinging B3 player that knows exactly what he's doing and former Chicagoan Paterson is the latest to join the line. After having long stints with Von Freeman and others, Paterson might be a new name but he's no newcomer and this long overdue display of chops validates the hard work that made it happen. A tasty organ trio date with lots of chestnuts given new life, Paterson could easily teach master classes in... read more
Michael Dease - City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
by Ed Enright, DownBeat
4-STARS When you live, work and play in New York, the city's renowned culture is there for the taking. But even if your day-to-day pursuits are of the utmost sophistication, there's no escaping the raw grit and inherent riskiness of urban life. Nobody knows that better than Michael Dease, who spent more than a decade of his formative years in the Big Apple, and whose latest double album, City Life, bustles like Seventh Avenue at rush... read more
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