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Dave Slonaker Big Band - Shifty Paradigms
by Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs
Years ago, you may have found a young Dave Slonaker hunched over books and piles of music sheets at Pittsburg's Carnegie Library, researching the nuts and bolts of how big band music is created. His fascination developed when he was just a teenager and has continued for decades.
Today, Slonaker heads a 15-year-old Grammy nominated ensemble and is a busy orchestrator, arranger and composer for film and television. This big band features some... read more
Deep Blue Organ Trio - Wonderful!
by Larry Hollis, Cadence
The Deep Blue Organ Trio has been around long enough to be super-tight in all aspects of musicianship. For their fourth outing they have gone the concept album route with a project containing the songs of Steveland Morris (aka Stevie Wonder). The triad of Bloom, Foreman and Rockingham transform these nine titles from first class pop writings to vehicles for heavy improvisation and telepathic interplay.
Whomever picked the repertory was... read more
Sonando - Tres
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Here's an interesting item. A Latin jazz release from Seattle. What makes it interesting is that Sonando is able to incorporate both the idioms of Latin jazz and the subtlety and grace that's fast becoming the hallmark of the Northwest jazz scene. The pieces here are a mix of originals and pieces from around the jazz world (Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Abdullah Ibrahim), rearranged as needed to fit the desired style. It's the seamless... read more
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio - Where the Light Falls
by Brent Black, Bop-N-Jazz
Widely acknowledged as one of the finest bass players over the last forty years, David Friesen's Circle 3 Trio and Where the Light Falls may be his finest release yet.
Remember melody? Improvisational music was built around the strength of melody long before meter and technique moved to the head of the class. Friesen never forgot melody, he manipulates and manufactures all the possibilities that exist in a simple unadorned melody.... read more
Bobby Broom - My Shining Hour
by Jerome Wilson, Cadence
Broom is one of the best mainstream jazz guitarists out today, sporting a lively, fluid sound. The loose and freewheeling treatments he gives to "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Jitterbug Waltz" and "Sweet And Lovely" are very impressive and the rhythm section of Dennis Carroll and Makaya McCraven give him strutting, bubbling support. "Heather On The Hill" gets a pretty ballad treatment and "Tennessee Waltz" is done in a measured bluesy... read more
Abate Berihun & The Addis Ken Project - Addis Ken
by Budapest, Rudolf Radnai
One of the most interesting records...a magical journey where jazz becomes a natural, self-evident entourage. Drawing from Ethiopian Jewish liturgical traditions, pan-African rhythms and modern improvisational language, music combines ancient memories with the latest contemporary formulation. This music is both timeless and urgent. Abate Berihun's passionate tenor and soprano saxophone playing is enriched by his vocal discourse, ranging from... read more
Piet Verbist - Flamenco Jazz Summit: El Mar Empieza Aqui
by Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, Jazz'halo (Belgium)
The label writes the following lines about the album: "Forceful and mystic, with a beauty and intensity that reminded him of his first hearings of Miles, Mingus, or Monk, Belgian bassist & composer Piet Verbist was pulled into his deep study of Flamenco culture several years ago through a grant from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. After a dozen immersive trips to Andalusia to study, perform, and develop a repertoire, Piet presented concerts... read more
Kim Richmond / Clay Jenkins Ensemble - CrossWeave
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
CrossWeave's opener, Troubleshooter," drives in on a tight rhythm groove that leads into some clean three horn harmony by trumpeter Clay Jenkins, alto saxophonist Kim Richmond, and tenor sax man Rich Perry, with a sound that harkens back to the classic Blue Note Records days, some of those classic sets by Lee Morgan and Art Blakey. A tight, shining ensemble mode with sharp soloing all around.
CrossWeave is the third disc by the... read more
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