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Bobby Broom - Song And Dance
by Doug Collette, Glide Magazine
The erstwhile guitarist (for Sonny Rollins among many others) mixes original songs and covers of unusual sources?the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman"-- in a way that features the strengths of the compositions as well as those of the trio. Uncluttered production emphasizes a clarity of sound that further highlights how it's possible to take a straightforward approach to recording and playing and in so... read more
Carlos Vega - Art of the Messenger
by Luiz Athayde, Class of Sounds (Brazil)
And let's go with jazz, let's go with Carlos Vega. And I'm not referring to the renowned drummer, but to the accomplished saxophonist from Miami, Florida, and, importantly, with Puerto Rican DNA.
The Latin footprint is nothing new in his short solo catalog, composed by Bird's Ticket (2016) and Bird's Up (2017), but it is a natural "up", as is expected in at least most musicians who propose themselves to record a phonographic... read more
Laurie Antonioli - Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
Bay Area vocalist Laurie Antonioli has been performing and recording for more than 30 years. Early on she mixed paints with the likes of Joe Henderson, Mark Murphy and Pony Poindexter with whom she undertook an 8-month European junket in 1980, quickening her already impressive jazz chops. Antonioli's discography is a slim yet intense affair that is full of brilliant pathos and musicianship. She has had much time pass between releases resulting... read more
Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill - Inside Voice / Outside Voice
by Russell Perry, WTJU
Bassist Michael Bisio (Matthew Shipp, Kirk Knuffke, Whit Dickey) and guitarist / singer Timothy Hill have released a very idiosyncratic disc with equal parts ballads from the Great American Songbook (For All We Know, I Fall in Love To Easily), classics of the edges of modern jazz (Coltrane's Wise One, Ornette's Law Years, Henry Grimes's For Django) and duet improvisations (Hearsay, Transfigure). Each of these angles has merit. The ballads show... read more
Chris Walden Big Band - No Bounds
by Victor L. Schermer, All About Jazz
No Bounds is as tasteful a big band album as you're likely to hear today, at a time when large jazz ensembles compete in virtuosity, intensity, range and, unfortunately, volume. Every note on the disc is well-placed, in tune and, even when dissonant, pleasing to the ears. That's because Walden knows music from top to bottom, having been a trumpeter himself, and composed, arranged and conducted for big bands, the cinema, television and star... read more
Rich Thompson - Generations
by Ric Bang, Jazz Scan
As this album?s title suggests, trios have been a mainstay in jazz for, well, generations. It?s a lot easier to gather simpatico musicians into a trio, than into a larger group. It?s an affordable combo; small clubs can?t foot the bill for larger groups. It also isn?t necessary to write the special arrangements required by bigger bands.
Rich Thompson?s trio is one of the newest.
Thompson?s career began in 1980, during the period when... read more
Hal Galper - Ivory Forest Redux
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The esteemed pianist Hal Galper brings us a remastered reissue of his late '70s masterpiece, Ivory Forest, and this updated version enhances John Scofield's guitar, Wayne Dockery's bass and Adam Nussbaum's drums, too.
The title track opens the listen with a light mood of agile keys, dreamy guitar and well timed drums in the very meticulous and adventurous climate, and "Continuity" follows with a sublime intimacy that showcases Galper's... read more
Eric Jacobson - Heading Home
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Vintage hard bop in the realm of Horace Silver and Art Blakey is served up by trumpeter Eric Jacobson and his quintet of Geof Bradfield/ts, Bruce Barth/p, Dennis Carroll/b and George Fludas/dr on this album of Blue Note-based originals. Barth taps into his inner Herbie Hancock on the rapid run of "Survival" and is jivey on the hip blues "Pause Time". Jacobson is mellow and sleek on "My Love for Amy" and forms a boogaloo line with the big and... read more
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