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Anthony Branker & Imagine - Songs My Mom Liked
by Dorothea Gängel, Jazz 'N' More (Switzerland)
The American composer Anthony Branker dedicated his latest work to his 88-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia. On car journeys together, he repeatedly played her the music he had once composed. He noticed that it put her in a happy mood and that she began to move to the sounds. So he decided to reinterpret some pieces with his ensemble "Imagine". "Songs My Mom Liked" contains twelve tracks. Eleven of them were written by Branker, only the... read more
Deep Blue Organ Trio - Wonderful!
by Robbie Gerson, Audiophile Audition
One of the leading B-3 Trios bearing soulful jazz today. ****1/2 Stars
The music of Stevie Wonder is unique. As pop songs, they are precise and infectious. But the gospel and r&b roots seem to create a natural feel for jazz arrangements. Wonder?s experimental approach to chord structure allows for edgier jams. Deep Blue Organ Trio, a veteran group from Chicago has been a standard bearer of soulful jazz. Since 2000 they have... read more
Dawn Clement - Tandem
by Doug Ramsey, Rifftides
Dawn Clement's recording history includes piano collaborations with saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and trombonist Julian Priester, among other prominent colleagues. The Seattle Times has called her, "The leading Seattle keyboardist of her generation." Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen calls her "...an eternal gift to the music." Clement's discography as a leader is growing, and this addition will almost certainly bring her increased attention. Tandem's series... read more
Brad Goode - Chicago Red
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
Chicago cum Colorado trumpeter Brad Goode also likes the sound of the electric piano, employing it liberally (at the hands of Jeff Jenkins) on Chicago Red. His mix also includes the funky guitar of Bill Kopper and electric bass of Bijoux Barbosa. How he differs from Jeremy Pelt, in this respect, is in his more organic application of the electric instruments. Goode's version of funk is tightly scripted and more reminiscent of James Brown and Sly... read more
Bobby Broom - Bobby Broom Plays for Monk
by Paul Abella, ChicagoJazz.com
Over the past couple of decades, Bobby Broom has proven himself to be an amazing musician and fascinating guitarist on weekly gigs, both solo, and with the awesome Deep Blue Organ Trio. Throw in playing time with Sonny Rollins and you've got a guy who's played with the best and learned from the best.
It's no wonder that his discography has found him moving all over the place, from an attempt to recreate the Benson Cookbook band, to an album... read more
Mike Pope - The Parts You Keep
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Bassist Mike Pope brings in a muscular and tasteful team of Geoffrey Keezer/p-k, Nate Smith/dr, Roxy Coss/ts-ss, Randy Brecker/tp-fh, Amaury Cabral/g, Ann Almond Pope/p and a guest string quartet for a swinging yet lyrical mix of standards, originals and even some classical. Of the latter, Pope lights the candles for the glistening title tune while going Old World rich on "Spharenmusik". Keezer taps into his inner Herbie Hancock as he gets... read more
Geof Bradfield - Our Roots
by Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm
There's something pretty cool about the way saxophonist Geof Bradfield uses old school blues and sacred music of the South as a way to pivot to varying expressions of hard bop, spiritual jazz, modern post-bop and even a quasi-contemporary jaunt on one track, while keeping the different expressions corralled under the basic concept and theme. With Clifford Jordan's Leadbelly tribute (1965's These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly) as... read more
Dawn Clement - Tandem
by Paul Rauch, Earshot
On her latest release, Tandem, Seattle-based pianist Dawn Clement explores the on-the-edge vulnerability of the duo, in intimate conversations with some of her closest musical allies over the past 20 years. She is joined by legendary trombonist Julian Priester, saxophonist Mark Taylor, drummer extraordinaire Matt Wilson, bassist Michael Glynn, and transcendent vocalist Johnaye Kendrick.
With Priester, the mood is pensive, playful, free. On... read more
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