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Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group - Live In Seattle
by Andrea Canter, JazzPolice.com
Joe Locke and Geoffrey Keezer: Live and Lush in Seattle
Two giants of modern mainstream jazz joined forces last fall at the Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle, and the result was golden. Not only did this elegant quartet win an Earshot Golden Ear Award as the Northwest Concert of the Year for 2005, the music was recorded and released this month as the Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group, Live in Seattle (Origin Records). Now the 21st century has... read more
Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story
by Dan Forte, Vintage Guitar Magazine
As in nearly all things, there are some exceptions (for instance, child prodigy Julain Lage, who's now a grown-up veteran at 24), but it seems like players still thought of as "young guns" of jazz guitar, whose rise began several years after the previous clutch of players to carry that mantel, are what used to be considered middle-aged--and in some cases nearly as old as the "generation" that preceded them. After standard-bearers Kenny... read more
Doug Miller - Regeneration
by John Barron, All About Jazz.com
An active bassist/composer/educator from the Seattle, Washington area, Doug Miller has toured with top big band names like the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra (under the direction of Mercer Ellington). Having provided a strong side-man presence on numerous releases for Origin Records, Miller gets the opportunity to step into the spotlight as leader with Regeneration, a unique representation of straight-ahead mainstream... read more
Dmitri Matheny - Cascadia
by Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist
Here's the challenge when you're a jazz flugelhorn player: avoiding sounding like a TV commercial soundtrack from 1979. It's not your fault; it's just that the flugelhorn has such a sweet, soft tone that it was the favorite vehicle for easy-listening music during that heavily easy-listening decade. So what does Dmitri Matheny do? He takes the dangerous path: he embraces the softness of his instrument, but puts it to work delivering sharp,... read more
Rodney Whitaker - Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Editor, Modern Drummer
Origin Records is owned and run by a couple of drummers, and they have been putting out some very nice recordings, and here's another to add to the list. Rodney Whitaker is a world-renowned bassist, arranger, and professor of
jazz studies. Gregg Hill is an under-recognized composer. Together they have put out three wonderful records, and this is number four. In Chicago, every musician knows Chicago drummer Dana Hall. He is doing the drumming... read more
Jeff Johnson - The Art of Falling
by Jason West, All About Jazz
I like living with CDs. I like to leave them in the player for a week or two and see how they grow. I'm not worried if, at first, I don't hear everything that's going on. Just as long as there's something - a few magnetic bars, a particularly firey exchange, a pregnant moment in the music - that demands another listen. So it is with The Art of Falling.
The phrase that hooked me comes at the hands of pianist Randy Porter, and it occurs in the... read more
Joachim Mencel - Brooklyn Eye
by WOJCIECH PACUŁA, High Fidelity (Poland)
BEST RECORDING 2020 - High Fidelity Magazine (Poland)
Joachim Mencel - pianist, lyricist, composer, music producer, dr hab. - assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow, decorated, among others The Silver Cross of Merit and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis, called the "romantic of Polish jazz pianism" - we read in the official biography available on the musician's website.
He graduated from the... read more
Karrin Allyson - A Kiss for Brazil
by Eg'dio Leitão, Música Brasileira
A Kiss for Brazil is not Karrin Allyson's first incursion into Brazilian music. I would not need to list her previous albums here to convince you she truly has an affinity for the Brazilian songbook.
Karrin Allyson (1962, Great Bend, Kansas) does not shy away from singing in Portuguese or choosing a less obvious repertoire from the Brazilian songbook. Her 1999 From Paris to Rio album first caught my attention. The CD had several Bossa Nova... read more
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