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Mimi Fox - Standards, Old & New
by Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player Magazine
Mimi Fox Expands Jazz Guitar from the Inside Out
MIMI FOX WAS A PRECOCIOUS YOUNGSTER, playing drums and then guitar before reaching her teens. She rapidly taught herself to play pop, folk, R&B, and other styles?but it was encountering John Coltrane?s Giant Steps that set her firmly on her current path. She relocated from New York to the San Francisco Bay Area around 1980, a time when there was a vibrant local jazz scene. ?I used... read more
Marius Nordal - Boomer Jazz
by George Fendel, Oregon Jazz Society
Marius Nordal is one of those virtuoso pianists who can spin you around in your chair and make you rue the day you ever started taking piano lessons. I know this to be true because I own his first two albums for Origin, and I've heard his Tatum-esque exploits on both. He has complete command of the piano, and you can't reign him in, so don't try. And, by the way, it's all very musical and lots of fun! This time around, Nordal tackles the music... read more
Robby Ameen - Diluvio
by Dave Cantor, DownBeat
EDITOR'S PICK Is this a panacea for what we're all experiencing now? Probably not. But Diluvio definitely will displace listeners' anxiety for about 50 minutes as drummer Robby Ameen moves through his keenly honed influences, expanding beyond the Afro-Cuban sounds he's associated with as the album rides a wave of eclecticism that eventually settles somewhere outside of genre.
"The Drifter's Plan" comes off a bit too smooth and ranks... read more
Mitch Paliga - Fall Night
by , Phrases / Phrases
Dave Liebman pupil of the Mitch Paliga, records for more than twenty years, but released his first album until 2006. Which is to demonstrate the difficulties faced by professional musicians moving in a separate area which apart from the purely musical part, bear the burden of caring for themselves and for all the rest. From the cover and produce the CD, to play, promotion and distribution of natural and caring for the closure... read more
Greg Yasinitsky - YAZZ Band: New Normal
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
4-STARS As one good album clearly deserves another, Greg Yasinitsky, who wears many hats—composer, arranger, woodwind specialist and educator among them—has released New Normal, the second impressive outing by his admirable Washington state-based ensemble, the YAZZ Band, which varies in size from septet to tentet. Unlike Yasinitsky's earlier album, YAZZ Band, which was recorded basically in one session with fixed personnel, the... read more
Dmitri Matheny - Cascadia
by S Victor Aaron, Something Else!
Flugelhorn maestro Dmitri Matheny issues his first long player since 2016's Jazz Noir and continues to lead small combos making cozy, tasteful straight-ahead jazz. Cascadia brings Matheny back to mostly fresh originals with a few standards sprinkled in, leading a five-piece band that throughout comprises of Charles McNeal (tenor and soprano saxophones), Bill Anschell (piano, Phil Sparks (bass) and Mark Ivester (drums), the lone new member not... read more
speak - Speak
by Thomas R. Erdmann, JazzReview.com
That there is still, in this jazz label-less era we currently live in, a place where experimental jazz can find a home and a means to release music that is not self-produced and released is to be celebrated. Origin Records has almost singlehandedly taken on the mantel of being such a location. Their release of Speak, the eponymously self-titled first recording by the five member amalgam of musicians that was originally billed as trumpeter... read more
David Friesen with Orchestra and Quartet - Testimony
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4 1/2 STARS Most artists, in most fields, move into their eighth decade on an artistic decline, their best days behind them. But not so for the Portland, Oregon-based musician David Freisen. The bassist/pianist/composer hooked up with Seattle's Origin Records in 2014 with the release of Where the Light Falls. Five more sets arrived in short order, top tier duo, trio or solo outings. Now, with Testimony, Friesen embraces the orchestral,... read more
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