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Laurie Antonioli - The Constant Passage of time
by Various - Hot Box Feature, Downbeat
HOT BOX FEATURE, May 2019
Combining her own compositions with a handful of rock tunes from the past 50 years, Antonioli and her sextet have crafted an album that invites the listener into questions about patriarchy and capital, and the ties that bind us as Americans. Her voice, tall, proud and unpretentious, deserves to be more widely heard.
- Giovanni Russonello
There's no denying the supple persuasiveness of Antonioli's... read more
Thomas Marriott - Urban Folklore
by Ric Bang, Jazz Scan
Origin Records and trumpeter Thomas Marriott are among this blog's "old friends"; both were featured in some of my earliest reviews. If you scan through the site's listing you'll find 7 CDs where they're featured together. Origin was among the first of the "new breed" jazz labels founded in the very late 20th century, and Marriott was - and still is - a frequent leader or sideman on the company's albums.
Marriott is a West Coast artist,... read more
Bobby Selvaggio - Short Stories
by Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
Like the Japanese calligraphy art know as enso, the condensed and succinct introduction alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio delivers on the track "Price Of Being (Intro)" is a disciplined stroke, delivered with an ease and elegance that belies the character and control required for such a statement. He works his instrument through this exercise with such command and strength, the sound gives the impression it is effortless.
But then, such is... read more
Bobby Rozario - Spellbound
by Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews
Absolutely scorching guitar originality Bobby Rozario - SPELLBOUND: I seldom get "that" excited by a new album these days (I'll be 77 next month, if the chemo don't get me first, lol), but the absolutely scorching guitar originality that guitarist Rozario brings to this new album will have you RAWKin' from the opening notes to the end of the 11 superb tunes offered up (think Santana at Woodstock - yeah, THAT KIND of... read more
Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble - The Atwood Suites
by Paul Weideman, Pasatiempo (The New Mexican, Santa Fe)
Soprano and baritone saxophones open "Two Islands I" in a sprightly mien, like an awakening. Luciana Souza sings lines from a Margaret Atwood poem: "I could say it without looking, the animals; the blackened trees, the arrivals; the bodies, words, it goes and goes; I could recite it backwards." Tim Hagans begins a lovely solo on flügelhorn, kinetically abetted by drummer Bill Stewart, who is a constant but varicolored presence on Andrew... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs of Earth
by Larry Hollis, Cadence
Songs of Earth dispenses with the upright bass and trap drum kit for a solo piano recital from Pacific Northwest player Jessica Williams. She had built up a healthy discography before she started devoting herself to solo settings in the eighties and these mostly improvised meditations were taken from tapings over a two year period (2009-2011) at Seattle's Triple Door. Pensive is the operative word here drawn from a half-dozen Williams writings... read more
Phil Kelly - Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles
by Ric Bang, The Davis Enterprise
It's great when a wish comes true.
I previously reviewed an album ("My Museum") by Phil Kelly and the Southwest Santa Ana Winds Big Band, and expressed interest in future "Compass Wind" groups.
Well, here's another, and this ensemble is dubbed the Northwest Prevailing Winds.
Whatever. It's even better than its predecessor.
This is a truly big band of 22 musicians: four trumpets, four trombones, seven reeds and a seven-member rhythm section.... read more
Eddie Allen and PUSH - The Rhythm
by Mark Griffith, Modern Drummer
A record called The Rhythm sounds like it should feature some wonderful drumming, and it does! Drummer EJ Strickland is one of the most overlooked jazz drummers on the New York jazz scene.
He always makes everyone around him sound better, and he always plays the music with taste and perfection. This record is no different. His hook-up with bassist Kenny Davis is transparent, always there without drawing too much attention to itself. Listen to... read more
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