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George Colligan & Theoretical Planets - Risky Notion
by Hobart Taylor, KUCI, Irvine, CA
Colligan is a renowned pianist composer who also whetted his chops on trumpet from time to time. On this new outing on Seattle's Origin label he switches to drums. He has worked with the great Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart on some of his previous recordings, and some of it has rubbed off. He is a very melodic drummer, fluid, casual and precise. The tunes are slightly spacey post bop with some Latin Jazz whispers, and they are all killer no... read more
2x2: Galvao/Santiago/Landais/Enouf - 2x2
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
When is euro jazz not Euro jazz? When two Brazilians meet up with two Frenchies in an odd ball circumstance that affords them with a chance to let it all hang out across the borders. A smokingly solid little date that has the angular Euro stuff and the breezy Brazilian stuff, frequently facing often in the same staff, it's a mash up these pros know how to deliver. Sitting down jazz of the highest order, you don't have to be an egghead or a... read more
Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story
by John Barron, The Jazz Word
Chicago-based Guitarist Bobby Broom pays tribute to his childhood upbringing in New York with Upper West Side Story, his first recording of all original material with longtime trio mates Dennis Carroll on upright bass and drummers Kobe Watkins and Makaya McCraven.
Broom is in top form throughout, unfolding horn-like lines that are full of surprise, yet characteristically soulful. The disc's nine tunes range from straight-eighth rock and Latin... read more
Rich Thompson - Who Do You Have to Know?
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The drummer Rich Thompson has an impressive resume and he adds to that body of work here with 9 tunes that welcome Corey Christiansen, Bobby Floyd and Peter Chwazik to the fusion formula.
The title track starts the listen with Floyd's atmospheric organ and Thompson's agile drumming in the flowing, worldly jazz climate, and "Street Cred" follows with a playful and melodic spirit that's full of Christiansen's flowing guitar work.
Halfway... read more
Bobby Broom - Song And Dance
by Michael Jackson, Downbeat, April 2007
Bobby Broom is so steeped in the music, whether his own or plumbing the structure of an ostensibly cheesy pop song, that you feel the guitarist could keep weaving lines endlessly, a proclivity he shares with Pat Metheny, Pat Martino and English guitarist Jim Mullen. Broom's trio has long been a favorite on the Chicago scene, particularly among musicians, who admire bassist Dennis Carroll's no-non-sense style and Broom's melodic surgery as well... read more
Mark Colby - Reflections
by Paul Abella, Chicago Jazz Magazine
Mark Colby has come out with a new disc, Reflections, on Origin Records. Colby joins a long list of Chicago's top-notch musicians making the move to that label, and like most of Origin's other releases, this one is flat-out fantastic. I'm beginning to think that John and Chad, the masterminds of that label, have no idea how to put out a bad record.
As a matter of fact, you just know that this is going to be a great album from the... read more
Ben Thomas - The Mystagogue
by John Barrett, Jr., Jazz USA
Power -it's here by the truckload. While Ben Thomas brings his mallets down hard, his band stretches in serpentine, Zappa-like themes. There's tons of sustain on the title track, endless harmony for the drums to crash against. After Ben's mighty solo, we hear Eric Likkel's nervous clarinet, waddling with delight. His notes are delicate, and somehow fit amidst all this power. What is a mystagogue? Judging by the tune, something wonderful.... 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
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