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Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre - Love the Moment
by Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network
Editor's Pick The celebrated composer, pianist and director of the award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Oscar Hernández has another incarnation and it's called Alma Libre, a smaller group that he sometimes calls together to play his high-spirited and energetic - and sometimes moody and elegiac - music. As with everything he composes (and performs), this repertoire is pure gold; a series of highly imaginative compositions with... read more
Bridge Quartet - Day
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Stemming from a missed gig and a somewhat hurried recording session following, Day introduces the Bridge Quartet, a collection of jazzers from Portland (and nearby) in their first collaboration. Particularly given their short history as a quartet, the sound is incredible. Phil Dwyer's sax keeps a solid tone, at home in a smoky nightclub, and takes hints from some of the greats but forges an identity of its own rather than simply emulating those... read more
Matt Jorgensen +451 - Quiet Silence
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
In his sophomore album, Quiet Silence, drummer Matt Jorgensen shows off an incredible hand at both composing and arranging, as he moves effortlessly through piece after piece mixing the old and the new with his band 451, a collection of busy Seattle players. In what's perhaps been the most notable shift on the album, Marc Seales' usual piano is replaced by a nice Fender Rhodes, which works out surprisingly well under his fingers, as can be noted... read more
Sam Yahel - Truth And Beauty
by Rachel Swan, East Bay Express
The tawdry cover art on Sam Yahel Trio's new album � which echoes that of New Jack Swing albums of the '90s with its reflected glamour shots of the trench-coated Yahel on a New York City rooftop � might clue you into which direction the Hammond B3 organist is heading on his groove-driven fourth effort. Despite his platitudes about world-music influences, and the infectious tukkah-tukkah-tukkah drum beat on his title track, Yahel appears to be... read more
Hugo Fernandez New Grounds Quartet - Ozean
by Dorothea Gängel, Jazz'N'More (Switzerland)
Mexican guitarist Hugo Fernandez focuses on the ocean on his latest album - the place where life on Earth originated. And it is also the place where cultural exchange took place as peoples set out to explore the continents. Fernandez composed the individual pieces on the album for his quartet in Berlin, his adopted home. A warm sound runs through the entire work, soft, atmospheric, and yet not without surprising twists and turns. Exemplary is... read more
Thomas Marriott - Both Sides Of The Fence
by Joseph Blake, Times Colonist, Saturday April 28 2007
A fixture at the annual Port Townsend Jazz Festival the last weekend in July, Seattle-based Thomas Marriott leads an outstanding band of Emerald City contemporaries on this collection of standards, seldom-played gems by Freddie Hubbard and Chick Corea, a stunning reading of Ellington's New World A Comin', Marriott original, and a seductive reinvention of The Breeze and I.
Marriott is a brilliant player with chops to spare on... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs For A New Century
by Thomas Conrad, All About Jazz
It is hard to think of a jazz musician who has gone her own way more resolutely than pianist Jessica Williams. She works only on her own solo and trio projects, never as a sideperson. She engineers her own albums for her own label, Red and Blue, and sells them on her own website, which she designs and maintains herself. She plays only in the venues she chooses (and she almost never chooses clubs). Even her place of residence is individualistic:... read more
Bobby Broom - Bobby Broom Plays for Monk
by Paul Abella, ChicagoJazz.com
Over the past couple of decades, Bobby Broom has proven himself to be an amazing musician and fascinating guitarist on weekly gigs, both solo, and with the awesome Deep Blue Organ Trio. Throw in playing time with Sonny Rollins and you've got a guy who's played with the best and learned from the best.
It's no wonder that his discography has found him moving all over the place, from an attempt to recreate the Benson Cookbook band, to an album... read more
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