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The Spin Quartet - In Circles
by Paul Abella, Chicago Jazz Magazine
There's not a lot to know about The Spin Quartet, or their album, In Circles. There's no liner notes, and to tell the truth, I don't know much about leader and trumpeter Chad McCullough. I know that Clark Sommers has appeared on a few of my favorite local discs from the last few years. I know that Kobie Watkins is a beast behind the drums, and everything I've ever heard from saxophonist Geof Bradfield has been excellent. So, we can be... read more
Sam Yahel - Truth And Beauty
by Chris Robinson, Downbeat, September 2007
Truth And Beauty, Sam Yahel's fourth offering as a leader, finds the organist joined by Joshua Redman and Brian Blade, two of his closest collaborators. The trio is incredibly tight, which comes as no surprise given their time spent playing together in the Yaya3 collective. Redman plays superbly throughout; in Rollins-esque fashion, he builds several of his solos from a melodic fragments, developing it into a complete statement. Yahel... read more
Bobby Broom - Bobby Broom Plays for Monk
by Chris M. Slawecki, All About Jazz
"In many ways, Monk personifies all that attracted and continues to satisfy me in my love affair with jazz music," said Bobby Broom upon releasing Plays for Monk. "The way that he, the musician, fit into the jazz landscape while at the same time standing out and apart from it; the controlled but unpredictable creative freedom he spoke with as an improviser, and the variety of feelings he could conjure up; how, as a composer, his tunes were a... read more
Brad Goode - Chicago Red
by Steve Greenlee, Jazz Times Magazine
Brad Goode, an accomplished trumpeter and jazz studies professor at the University of Colorado, has spent most of his career steeped in bop. But on Chicago Red he continues his more modern explorations, begun in 2008 with Polytonal Dance Party and the introduction of his so-called "polytonal system," which involves "improvising over streams of simultaneous chord sequences," to use his words. Chicago Red takes him into... read more
Robby Ameen - Live at the Poster Museum
by SRIRAM GOPAL, DownBeat
4-STARS Like many musicians, Robby Ameen had to get creative to manifest performance opportunities during the pandemic. A vintage poster store in Manhattan offered Ameen space to conduct online lessons and present a weekly concert, the last of which was recorded to produce Live At The Poster Museum (Origin). Ameen is at the forefront of Afro-Cuban drumming, as this outing reinforces. (Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" adds straightahead... read more
Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott - East-West Trumpet Summit
by Mark Holston, Jazziz
Trumpet players have a well-deserved reputation for machismo. Put two jazz trumpeters in the same studio at the same time and the testosterone count is sure to jump. In the case of veteran Ray Vega and relative newcomer Thomas Marriott, however, the emphasis of this warm-blooded session is on mutual respect, not one-upmanship, as they partner in a "summit" format that has been employed over the decades by some of jazzdom's greatest horn... read more
Hal Galper Trio - The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite
by Tom Hull, Tom Hull: On the Web
Pianist, a good one, first side credit looks to be Chet Baker in 1964, 30+ albums since 1971, a few struck me as A-list, like his 2009 trio with Reggie Workman and Rashied Ali (Art-Work), and last year's album with Jerry Bergonzi (Cubist). This one, a trio with his label's resident rhythm section (Jeff Johnson and John Bishop), live from Edmonton in Canada, isn't quite such a tour de force, but reminds you how impressive he can be. Note that... read more
Joel Miller Sienna Dahlen - Dream Cassette
by George Graham, WVIA Radio
Artists have been mixing rock and jazz for about 50 years now. Most of the time it takes either one of two forms - rock tunes with some added jazz instrumentation and stylistic touches, or music that comes basically from a jazz composing style with electric instrumentation. Examples from the early days include respectively, Blood Sweat & Tears, and the Mahavishu Orchestra. Jazz-rock fusion continues in the 21st Century and sometimes gets fairly... read more
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