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Matt Jorgensen + 451 - Another Morning
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz.com
Matt Jorgensen + 451 has created a distinctive music, a free flying jazz sound with a 1960s rock sensibility, bursting with enormous chops. It's a mix of Ryan Burns' often out there, Jimi Hendix-ian keyboard work (wailing on Fender Rhodes, organ and Moog ), Mark Tayor's bite-of-lime saxophone tang, Jorgensen's multi-layered percussion complexities and Phil Sparks' deep in the pocket bass work. Mix it up and it's unmistakable on the blindfold... read more
Bobby Broom - My Shining Hour
by Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
Every city tends to take its own jazz treasures a bit for granted, notwithstanding the respect they generate across the country and beyond. With My Shining Hour (Origin Records), to be released Aug. 19, guitarist Bobby Broom reminds us of his stature as soloist and bandleader. Fronting a trio with bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer Makaya McCraven, Broom stands front and center - and benefits enormously from this high exposure. Rarely... read more
Mark Zaleski - OUR TIME: REIMAGINING DAVE BRUBECK
by Paul Simpson, The Answer Is In The Beat
Boston's Mark Zaleski pays tribute to his biggest influence with a set of Brubeck interpretations. While the compositions are recognizable, he does add new elements to them and avoids being too faithful, because you can just listen to the originals if you want to hear them the way Brubeck arranged them. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" opens the set, and it sounds like he added a shot of caffeine to the song, as it sounds even more tightly wound than the... read more
Piet Verbist Zygomatik - Cattitude
by Jan van Leersum, Roots Time (Belgium)
Piet Verbist (bs) studied at the Conservatory of Brussels, where he was taught by, among others Hein van de Geyn and Dave Holland. He played in many groups such as the Ben Sluijs Quartet, Trio Ancesthree, Jan de Haas Quintet eva But he is best known as the bassist of the Jef Neve Trio, his first CD came out on Verbist's label contour. But it is with his own group Zygomatik that he completely lost his egg can we hear an energetic mix of jazz,... read more
Michael Dease - Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Trombonist came up with a brilliant idea on his last album in putting together material from the catalogue of composer Gregg Hill. He keeps playing the winning hand on this new release, but with a larger ensemble in Virginia MacDonald/cl, Sharel Cassity/fl-as, Rudresh Mahanthappa/as, Jason Hainsworth/ts, Matt White/tp, Nanami Haruta/tb, Bill Cunliffe/p-key, Katie Thiroux/b, Colleen Clark/dr and Gwendolyn Dease/perc.
Dease also doubles on... read more
David Friesen and Glen Moore - Bactrian
by Ric Bang, Jazz Scan
This album likely is meant for a limited audience: those who are turned on by the acoustic bass and two of the finest artists who play that instrument, David Friesen and Glen Moore. This is a duet concert by these two masters. Admittedly, both also are pianists, and half of the selections feature one of them on that instrument, with the other on bass, but the rest are bass duets. The genre is modern classical jazz, and just two of the pieces... read more
Ben Patterson - Stretch
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move
5-STARS Ben Patterson's "Stretch" Blends Big Band Mastery With Modern Jazz Fusion Energy
The studio monitors glow as the first notes of Stretch begin to unfold, and almost immediately the room feels transformed. There is sunlight in this music, but also discipline, architecture and memory. The new album from Ben Patterson arrives with the confidence of a musician who has spent decades mastering both the language of jazz... read more
Eva Cortes - Crossing Borders
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
Eva Cortes mixes languages and moods with her flexible team of Pepe Rivero/p, Luques Curtis/b, Robby Ameen/dr, Luisito Quintero/perc, MarvinSewell/g and a snappy horn section along with simpatico guests. Her voice is husky and breathy sensuous on the intimate "Corazon" and spacious during her aria intro to the salsa'd "Sabor a Mi." The horns add funky soul as Cortes saunters with Jon Cowherd's piano on "Deja Vu" and Doug Beaver's horn pleads... read more
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