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Brad Goode Quintet Feat. Ernie Watts - Live Your Dream: Live at North Street Cabaret
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move
Brad Goode and Ernie Watts deliver a stunning live jazz performance filled with daring improvisation, emotional intensity and extraordinary musicianship, creating one of the most compelling contemporary jazz recordings in recent years.
5-STARS Brad Goode and Ernie Watts Turn Live Jazz Into Pure Electricity
There was this album cover in muted shades of blue and gray that had been staring back at me for weeks. I kept leaving... read more
Karrin Allyson - A Kiss for Brazil
by Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene
Karrin Allyson's annual visits to Catalina Bar & Grill are always well worth attending. While she recorded her debut album back in 1992, she is still very much in prime form 32 years later. At Catalina's she was joined by the very talented pianist Miro Sprague, bassist Karl McComas-Reichl, and drummer Dan Schnelle.
Since the singer's most recent album is A Kiss For Brazil, she included several Brazilian numbers that she sang in Portuguese and... read more
Carl Schultz - The Road to Trantor
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Playing tenor sax and flute, Carl Schultz creates a kind of soundtrack to an as yet unwritten science fiction move on this creative and evocative album with Tim Wendel/g, Adam Benjamin/p-key, Zack Teran/b and Alwyn Robinson/dr. As expected, the intergalactic themes are, well, spacey, as Wendel and Benjamin go where no man has gone before on "Journey" and "Psychohistory", and the electric noodles veer around the machinations of "Caves Of Steel".... read more
Hadley Caliman | Pete Christlieb - Reunion
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz.com
Both Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb were active on Los Angeles jazz scene going on 50 years ago, and the two tenor saxophonists actually performed together at the time. Real life got in the way, guiding each man in his allotted direction. Origin Records' house pianist (and All About Jazz Contributor) Bill Anschell brought the two together for Reunion, composing a good old fashioned cooker to open the disc.
"Little Dex" (after... read more
Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre - The Art of Latin Jazz
by Chip Boaz, Latin Jazz Corner
ALBUM OF THE WEEK We spend a lot of time talking about the minutiae of music making, digging into theory, history, and the way that the sounds make us feel; far too often, we leave the idea of artistry out of our conversations. The exclusion of this topic is a bit ironic, as artistry is probably the most important piece of the puzzle. The decisions that a musician makes about their product, the time they spend refining their craft, and... read more
Richard Sussman - Continuum
by Rob Young, Urban Flux
Known for his proficiency as a musician, Richard Sussman is revered among his peers as an accomplished pianist, composer and arranger. On this occasion, he arrives with ?CONTINUUM? his latest album on Origin Records. It?s evident from the onset, Sussman produce a tempting dish extracted from the womb of traditional jazz yet he skillfully unwinds this sinuous palette by sowing multifaceted harmonies and decisive threads of continuity to further... read more
Ted Brancato - The Next Step
by Robbie Gerson, Audiophile Audition
Growing up in Seattle (an under-appreciated jazz city), Ted Brancato became a regular performer with musicians passing through the Emerald City. This included Milt Jackson, Eddie Jefferson, Ernie Watts and Ernestine Anderson. An inevitable relocation to New York (sparked by collaboration with vocalist Gene McDaniels) helped to establish Brancato as an arranger, composer, accompanist and performer. He has recorded with a variety of jazz artists... read more
David Friesen - Day of Rest
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
The bass man makes a solo piano set on a Ravenscroft piano where all the tracks are solo miniatures that seem improvised but probably have a ton of composition behind them. It's just that he makes it all look and sound so easy. You try and duplicate it! Call it a throw back to new age piano solo if you need to but it really is instrumental music that exists on a plane all of it's own. Well done by a real... read more
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