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Dave Slonaker Big Band - Convergency
by Travis Rogers, Jr., The Jazz Owl
After the massive success of his 2013 debut album, Intranda, Dave Slonaker perceived the time to be ripe for a new era of Big Band music. His new album, Convergency, is the brilliant and much-anticipated follow-up.
Performing Slonaker's originals are a fantastic collection of favorite artists like Larry Koonse on guitar, Bob Sheppard on alto and soprano sax and flute, and the great Peter Erkine on drums. The full line-up includes:
Brian... read more
Brad Goode - Polytonal Dance Party
by Andy Hamilton, Jazz Review
I'd been aware of Brad Goode, but not of quite what a superlative player and band-leader he was ? till I reviewed his album Nature Boy, released on Delmark earlier this year. With his quartet of Jeff Jenkins on piano, Johannes Weidenmueller on bass and Todd Reid on drums, this is an album where conception and execution, form and content, are perfectly matched. The leader's bright, articulate trumpet, placed in the context of a variety of... read more
Ted Moore Trio - The Natural Order of Things
by George Harris, Jazz Weekly
Drummer and percussionist Ted Moore teams up with pianist Phil Markowitz and bassist Kai Eckhardt for a collection of mostly modal, mostly original tunes. The one ringer is Joseph Brakett's "Simple Gifts" which also includes clever dashes of Aaron Copeland in the puree'. Moore lays down nice pulsations to Markowitz's McCoy Tyner-inspired chords on the rich title track and the assertive "What's The Meaning of This" while the team snaps to "Theme... read more
Martin Budde - Back Burner
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The esteemed guitartist Martin Budde is aligned with Ben Feldman and Xavier Lecouturier for this first effort as leader on the Origin label, where mostly covers unfold with both uplifting bouts and melancholy present.
"Red" opens and makes an immediate impression thanks to Budde's sparkling guitar lines and Lecouturier's meticulous drumming that cultivates many grooves, and the title track follows with a hint of intimacy, where Feldman's... read more
Keigo Hirakawa - Pixel
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Sophisticated, intricate and complex music is written by pianist Keigo Hirakwawa and performed y his team of Rafael Statin/sax-flpbcl, Brandon Scott Coleman/g, Robert Hurst/b and Alex White/dr. The songs demand various shapes and sizes, with "Yaw Pitch Roll" a snappy trio work in the concept of advanced Herbie Hancock, while the title track has Statin's tenor riding an intense white knuckler. The team bops cleverly with Statin's soprano on "Far... read more
Scott Hesse - The Stillness of Motion
by Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm
Enjoyable straight-ahead jazz guitar trio. Hesse develops a pleasantly talkative mode on his guitar. The bass and drums duo of Clark Sommers & Makaya McCraven clearly speak Hesse's... read more
Dana Hall - Into the Light
by Charles Latimer, http://idigjazz.blogspot.com/
Dana, you've logged many man-hours as a sideman, working for jazz greats such as the late tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, vocalist Maria Schneider, and pianist Kenny Barron. With the soon to be released, "Into the Light", your debut album, you'll show a wider audience what you're made of. Your resume' is too enormous too talk about so I'll just comment on "Into the Light", which will be on my favorite album of 2009 list.
Do you value jazz... read more
Phil Kelly & The SW Santa Ana Winds - My Museum
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
To paraphrase the peerless Bard of Avon, a wind from any other clime would blow as hot -- or as cool. Last year, composer/arranger Phil Kelly happily introduced big band enthusiasts to the turbulent NW Prevailing Winds (Seattle) on the stormy album Convergence Zone; this year, he has empowered the cyclonic SW Santa Ana Winds (Los Angeles) to raise the barometric pressure and spawn another tempestuous tour de force, My Museum.
Knowing there... read more
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