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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
speak - Speak
by John Barron, All About Jazz
The Seattle-based quintet Speak explores a multitude of musical moods with their eponymous recording debut. An exemplary model of genre-defying music, the disc features original compositions that delve into odd-metered progressive rock grooves and spontaneous bursts of improvised sound that are at times explosive.
The opening cut "Amalgam in the Middle" makes anthemic pronouncements with an extended section for Aaron Otheim's intensity... read more
Doug Beavers Orchestra - Jazz, Baby!
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
Doug Beavers Rovira isn't the first bandleader to reach out to the "diminutive demographic," but he may be the first to do so without pretense or condescension. In other words, Rovira doesn't play "down" to toddlers and children, he raises them "up" by clothing nearly a dozen nursery rhymes and songs in clever orchestral arrangements that would please even the hippest adult listeners. Blend in charming vocals by Matt Catingub and Linda Harmon... read more
Scott Reeves Quintet - The Alchemist
by Edward Blanco, All About Jazz
Trombonist, composer and band leader Scott Reeves once performed a live concert at the City College of New York with his then quintet, which has now been documented as his newest offering entitled The Alchemist. However, new is not the operative word here, as this musical event took place on May 5th, 2005. While concentrating on compositions and recordings for his jazz orchestra over the last ten years, the pandemic provided Reeves with the... read more
Tom Collier - Impulsive Illuminations
by Hobart Taylor, KUCI - Irvine, CA
Not for the inattentive listener, this deeply engrossing music composed by vibraphone/marimba player Collier treads the ground of "pure", non-generic music. This music could be at home in a symphonic concert hall, a jazz night club, an electronic music seminar, or a Zen Center. Collier and his renowned colleagues, (Bill Frisell, guitar, Cuong Vu, trumpet, etc) stay gloriously true to their abstractions and improvisations.... read more
Allison Adams Tucker - WANDERlust
by George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego music mainstay Allison Adams Tucker isn't kidding when she describes herself as a "world jazz singer."
As her third and newest album, "WANDERlust," handily reaffirms, she can sing with equal skill and poise in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. Recorded in New York, the alluring "WANDERlust" teams her with such luminaries as Chicago saxophonist Chris Potter, Mexican drummer Antonio Sanchez and Brazilian... read more
Anthony Branker & Imagine - What Place Can Be for Us?
by Angelo Leonardi, All About Jazz (Italy)
4 1/2 STARS The adventurous post-bop of the composer Anthony Branker, well expressed by the album Beauty Within by the Imagine quintet, finds new and more complex developments in this What Place Can Be for Us?. The group confirms the guitarist Pete McCann and the couple Fabian Almazan and Linda May Han Oh, expanding to a medium size band with some of the greatest young instrumentalists in New York: the trumpeter Philip Dizack, the... read more
Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group - Live In Seattle
by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Vibraphonist Joe Locke and keyboardist Geoff Keezer's third collaboration (their previous two CDs were released in Japan under the New Sound Quartet moniker) is their first live recording as a team. Joining them are bassist Mike Pope and drummer Terreon Gully (the latter who also took part in their earlier studio recordings) for a stimulating set recorded during the 2005 Ballard Jazz Festival. Locke's turbulent "Van Gogh by Numbers" serves as a... read more
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