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Ben Paterson - For Once In My Life
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
For his fourth recording, organist Ben Paterson returns to the North West Coast Origin label with For Once in My Life. He employs a standard organ-guitar-drums combo for eleven standards and originals that allows the crack trio he shares with guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer George Fludas to fully explore the more modern sonic aspects of this popular jazz- blues-funk format. Blending the musical traditions of his native Philadelphia... read more
Alon Farber Hagiga - Reflecting On Freedom
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
Israeli saxophonist Alon Farber's Hagiga (in Yiddish, "celebration") is exactly that—a warm tribute to contemporary jazz from the Middle East to South America and beyond, ably performed on the group's fourth album, Reflecting on Freedom, by half a dozen well-schooled Israeli musicians and—on several of the album's nine tracks—special guest percussionist Rony Iwyrn and vocalist Sarai Zak-Levi. Hagiga has been in the forefront of Israel's... read more
Rodney Whitaker - Outrospection: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Simpson, The Answer Is In The Beat, WCBN
Rodney Whitaker, a Detroit-born musician and Professor of Jazz Bass and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University, arranges several compositions by Lansing's Gregg Hill, with musicians from MSU's jazz faculty. The record was made under COVID lockdown with all the musicians socially distanced in different booths, but it still sounds cohesive. Whitaker's daughter Rockelle, who has a deep, sultry voice in the tradition of all the... read more
Benjamin Boone - Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
by Jason Crane, Album Liner Notes
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." —Brendan Behan
The Oliver Wendell Holmes quote is loftier, but the Brendan Behan quote gets closer to the heart of the matter on saxophonist Benjamin Boone's new album Confluence: The Ireland Sessions,... read more
BOX - Ten Variations On An Unknown Theme
by Pedro C�sar Beas, Dijazz
Ten variations on a unknown subject jazz is the perfect title for a disc of free. The music improvised in Europe continues taking to unknown and magical places. Claudia Ulla Binder, that is masterful of piano and part of the scene free jazz of Switzerland, has been published by Origin Record. The teacher Caludia Ulla Binder, like so many musicians of the European scene free, has belonged to the circuit of improvised music, but not very often she... read more
Hal Galper - Trip the Light Fantastic
by Ron Wynn, JazzTimes
Pianist Hal Galper's latest release incorporates influences and approaches from multiple camps, a reflection of the versatility he displayed during lengthy stints with Chet Baker and Phil Woods. But it's a sign of his growth as a player that he does it in a manner that's neither tedious nor imitative. Galper sometimes opts for the lyrical, fluid sensibility popularized by stylists like Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau. But on other occasions he... read more
David Friesen and Glen Moore - Bactrian
by Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation
It's not often you get to listen to two masters of the bass on one album... this is kind of a "reunion" recording... they recorded together way back in 1977, and have now captured the results of a recent tour through Europe together. As you listen to songs like the lively "Hoe Down", you'll hear that from a jazz standpoint, there are few players that can equal their dexterity - they'll have you up & dancin' 'round the barn with glee; every... read more
Matt Otto - Red
by David Franklin, JazzTimes April 2006
If Paul Desmon was, as he proclaimed, the "world's slowest alto player," then Matt Otto may be the world's quietest tenor man. On the eight originals that comprise Red, Otto's dynamics rarely rise above the level of an intimate conversation. His delivery is so relaxed and subtle that even the intake of breath is sometimes audible. But although Otto doesn't strut, he does quietly demonstrate an admirable control of his instrument and of chord... read more
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