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Harvie S - Bright Dawn
by Editor, Modern Drummer
After a long career in modern jazz, then playing (and studying) Afro-Cuban music for the last 30 years, bassist Harvie S is combining everything on his
new recording Bright Dawn, although the record does lean more towards modern jazz. Drummer Matt Wilson, pianist Miki Hayama, and Harvie create an elastic trio that is augmented by Peter Bernstein's lyrical guitar. Wilson and Harvie break up the time with panache', while Bernstein floats atop... read more
Roxy Coss - Restless Idealism
by Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist
Of course, when it comes to joyful and powerful swing, it's hard to beat composer and saxophonist Roxy Coss, whose second album is an all-original sextet session and a pleasure from start to finish. She blows out of the starting gate with the straight-ahead bop number "Don't Cross the Coss" (a wry reference to the way in which people tend to get her last name wrong), then settles into midtempo with the harmonically craggy "Waiting," then gets... read more
Tom Collier - Across the Bridge
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
Give a jazzbo vibe player some grant money and crowd funding and what's he do with it? Luckily for us, this vibe player hired some ace cats to back him up making a date that brings fusion to vibes and good vibes to all. Frequent duet partner Dan Dean brings his bass (and producer's hat) on board and there's a lot of circles that are completed here. With 50 years of hammering those mallets under his belt, the former tyro knows what works and... read more
ZurHub - Countryside Motorways
by George Harris, Jazz Weekly
Consisting of Mattan Klein/fl, Eqequiel Hezi Jait/g, Itay Simhovich/p-key, Assaf Hakimi/b and Dani Benedikt/dr-perc, the band Zurhub gracefully bops and swings through an album of lithe originals. There's a nice collection of sambas and bossas that have Klein blowing like a summer breeze over Jait's strums on "Feliz" and" Bat Ya'Am" while "Overlooked" has him cascading like a gentle waterfall. Benedikt digs in with Simhovich's keys and a funky... read more
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio - Triple Exposure
by Hobart Taylor, KUCI - Irvine, CA
Bassist composer Friesen, Greg Gobel, pianist, and drummer, Charlie Doggett, play the most elegant of chamber jazz. The jazz trio, like the string quartet in classical music, is an ideal form for balance between solo and ensemble play. Friesen, long a recognized virtuoso, gently leads the tunes but does not overwhelm them. Check out "Rainbow Song" for a very special tour de force.... read more
Peter Erskine & the JAM Music Lab All-Stars - Bernstein in Vienna
by Pierre Giroux, The New York City Jazz Record
Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein was a musical chameleon who effortlessly traversed musical styles and genres on which he built an unparalleled legacy. Drummer Peter Erskine (who celebrates his 70th birthday this month), along with the musicians that make up Vienna's Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Robert Unterköfler (tenor), Bertl Mayer (harmonica), Cozy Friedel (violin), Andreas Varady (guitar), Danny Grissett (piano) and Danny Ziemann (bass),... read more
Various Artists - The Cool Season: An Origin Records Holiday Collection, Vol. 2
by Derrick Bang, The Davis Enterprise
I've saved on of the best [discs] for last, although not intentionally; Origin Records' "The Cool Season" (Origin82494) arrived literally as this column was being prepped for layout. It's a tasty collection from an extremely tight quartet - Thomas Marriott, trumpet and flugelhorn; Bill Anschell, piano; Jeff Johnson, bass; and John Bishop, durms- that thinks and plays as one.
These are fairly lengthy tracks that for the most part are handled... read more
Anthony Branker & Other Ways of Knowing - Manifestations of a Diasporic Groove & Spirit
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move
5-STARS To write about Anthony Branker is to risk superlatives. And yet restraint feels almost dishonest. He stands, more than likely, among the most important and influential American composers working today, not simply because of the sophistication of his craft, but because of the intellectual and moral architecture that sustains it. Once again, Branker delivers a work that is forceful, searching, at moments even unsettled, a score... read more
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