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Giacomo Gates - Centerpiece
by Jim Santella, All About Jazz
His rich baritone voice, accurate musical ear and comfortable seamless phrasing make Giacomo Gates a singer with appeal, and his personal interpretation of lyrics gives his audience a convincing lesson. But there's a special twist to this performance. Gates has been bitten by the hipster bug. His passion for the vocalese of King Pleasure, Eddie Jefferson and Jon Hendricks is woven through each track.
His policy does not take Gates a step... read more
Bill Anschell - More To The Ear Than Meets The Eye
by Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes, February 2007
More to the Ear Than Meets the Eye is a consistently rewarding piano-trio album. Its freshness and creative strength is different on every track. There are two guests, saxophonist Richard Cole (three tunes) and trumpeter/flugelhornist Thomas Marriott (two). The horns appear only on Anschell originals, whos melodies linger in the mind. "Humble Origins" could be a jazz standard, a stark frame erected on a haunting, dark piano ostinato and an... read more
Ben Patterson - Push the Limits
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Trombonist and leader Ben Patterson slides on a variety of base paths with his team of Shawn Purcell/g, Chris Ziemba/key, Paul Henry/b and Todd Harrison/dr through a mix of originals. Dan Cortaza brings his nylon strings to the nimble gallop of "Road Trip", while for a handful of the tunes, you feel like you're taking in a modern take of the Jazz Messengers. Patterson digs in deep on the Blue Note-ish "Scoish" and the team shuffles hard on... read more
Jaiman Crunk - Encounters
by Rob Young, Urban Flux
I?m pleased to share with you a new artist named Jaiman Crunk. He?s a guitarist/composer who emerges on the music scene with the blossoming fruits of his latest endeavor simply titled ?ENCOUNTERS? his debt on Origin Records.
?Encounters? is subsequently a fine collection of eight palpable songs quilted with diverse blend of resonating tones, melodies and rhythms starting with mysterious overtures enmeshed in the body of the jazz influenced... read more
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio - Triple Exposure
by Brian Zimmerman, Downbeat
EDITOR'S PICK, DEC, '16 David Friesen's new album with his Circle 3 Trio is a deeply personal statement, from the clean, stimulating compositions that form the bulk of the disc to the original mixed-media collage that adorns the cover. As such, the music here feels buttressed by the support of real life experience, and almost always the listener gets the sense that highly individuated musical concepts are in play. The group wrestles... read more
Charlie Ballantine - East by Midwest
by Geoffrey Himes, Hard Rain & Pink Cadillacs
There are jazz guitarists who can play melodic themes and lyrical precision, and there are those who make use of the harsh and surreal sounds an electric guitar is capable of. Indianapolis's Ballantine is one of the rare youngsters who can do both, much as Bill Frisell and John Scofield did in an earlier generation. Ballantine proved this on his 2018 album of Dylan covers, and he proves it again on this even better project, which includes tunes... read more
Chad McCullough | Michal Vanoucek - The Sky Cries
by Jerome Wilson, Cadence
The Sky Cries is lively mainstream modern Jazz out of the Pacific Northwest led by trumpeter Chad McCullough and pianist Michal Vanoucek. The two men split the writing chores here but all of their pieces are intricate and involving. McCullough's "Urban Grassland" and "Soliloquy" pits the lyrical shapes of his trumpet playing against the sharp, sour sound of Mark Taylor's alto while his "Time-lapse" juxtaposes flowing horn solos with... read more
Charlie Ballantine - East by Midwest
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The Baltimore resident and guitarist Charlie Ballantine is joined by Quinn Sternberg and Dan Weiss for these 9 Americana tinted songs that aren't short on grooves.
The shimmering guitar of "Storyteller" opens with much warmth and grace, and "Runaround" follows with Weiss' scrappy drums complementing the meticulous guitar playing.
Landing close to the middle, "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a reflective moment that also benefits from some... read more
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