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John Moulder - Trinity
by John Kelman, All About Jazz
While one can overstate the importance of parallel careers, it's hard to avoid touching on the subject with John Moulder. The ordained priest has also managed an active musical career in Chicago as a guitarist�most notably as a member of ex-Pat Metheny Group drummer Paul Wertico's trio for the past twelve years. It's easy to forget his spiritual leanings on albums like Spirit Talk (Naim, 2003), a standards-based duo record with vibraphonist Ken... read more
Eric Jacobson - Discover
by Paul Abella, WDCB
Milwaukeean Eric Jacobson has assembled a fantastic band with pianist Bruce Barth and Chicagoans Geof Bradfield (sax), Dennis Carroll (bass) and George Fludas (drums) for an outstanding new release called Discover. Discover is a mix of original material, Jazz classics (Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma") and standards ("I Hear a Rhapsody," "Old Folks"). All eight selections on the album are fantastic with "The Unknown" and "New Combinations"... read more
Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto - Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Exciting Latin currents were stirred back in 1995 by pianist/composer Jovino Santos Neto and his team of Hans Teuber/fl-sax, Chuck Deardorf/b and Mark Ivester/dr captured live in concert at Seattle, Washington's Kerry Hall. Neto mixes and matches combos, going solo on a cozy "Happy Birthday Ariel!" and sizzling in trio format on "Hoping for the Day". Teuber's alto bounces and skips over the Latin-pulsed " Metamorph" and bops till he drops for... read more
Clay Giberson - Pastures
by Domi, Republic of Jazz
An innovative voice in the contemporary jazz scene of the Pacific Northwest, pianist and composer Clay Giberson is part of a new generation that is redefining jazz. Emotionally compelling, the music grooves as much as it dazzles with harmony, lyricism and rhythmic intricacy.
Giberson's performances convey a deep appreciation of structure and form but pay equal tribute to the pulse and sonic landscape that frame his musical ideas. Clay's... read more
Yumiko Endo Schlaffer - Rhapsodie
by Alison Young, Harp Column
Like the luscious glamour of her CD cover, Japanese harpist Yumiko Endo Schlaffer plays with a luxurious richness as soft as the velvet she lightly places herself on. Rhapsodie is sheer grace and elegance.
I am convinced a great deal of planning went into this CD. It?s not just one beautiful number after another with several French pieces that leaves us breathless and relaxed?Yumiko takes us far afield. One of my favorites is from her native... read more
Paul Ricci - The Path
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
5 STARS
Paul Ricci's Path: A 29-Year Journey Toward a Borderless Jazz
It took 29 years, 17 collaborators, and a lifetime of travel for composer and guitarist Paul Ricci to complete Path. In an era of instant releases and compressed creative cycles, this jazz-fusion album arrives as a quiet rebuke to speed, an argument for patience, accumulation, and the slow maturation of ideas across cultures and continents.
The project... read more
Laurie Antonioli and Richie Beirach - Varuna
by Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes
Perhaps least known among contemporary jazz's great voice-piano duos, with 25 years of shared history, Laurie Antonioli and Richie Beirach are also masters of delayed gratification. The Duo Sessions, their first album as coleaders, was recorded in 1992 but not released until 13 years later. This overdue reunion was recorded in Beirach's adopted hometown of Leipzig a decade ago, completed in California in 2012, and at last released in... read more
Jessica Williams - With Love
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
Pianist Jessica Williams produces for the piano in With Love that Rebecca Parris and Beat Kaestli do in jazz vocals...a perfect jazz ballads recording. Williams does so in a solo piano setting not unlike what she has used in the past most recently on Song of the Earth (Origin, 2012), Touch (Origin, 2010) and The Art of the Piano (Origin, 2009). This is a recording the eclipses the majority of what passes for... read more
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