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Bad Luck - Four
by Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazzenzo (Netherlands)
Translated from Dutch:
'Four' is the fourth CD of the duo Bad Luck. Life can be simple. However, this music is not.
Tenor saxophonist and electrical wizard Neil Welch and drummer Christopher Icasiano deliver the soundtrack for an imaginary trip to a dimension far away from here. The drumbeats and soundscape scenes from the intro ('Four') sound like pure John Carpenter (period 'Escape From New York' and 'Escape From L.A.'). Only... read more
Maddie Vogler - While We Have Time
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
Regardless of one's opinion of the music (from this vantage point, quite favorable), it is always a pleasure to welcome a jazz group led by a woman whose talents reach beyond voice or piano. Maddie Vogler, who presides over an admirable sextet on While We Have Time (and wrote all the music therein), plays alto saxophone, and does so about as well as any of her peers, male or female.
When she is not gigging or recording, Vogler teaches music... read more
Doug Beavers 9 - Two Shades of Nude
by Kyle O'Brien, Jazz Society of Oregon
Trombonist Beavers is known for being a member of the Mingus Big Band and also for his association with Eddie Palmieri. On his second disc as a leader and composer, Beavers leads eight other fine musicians through a disc of originals and tightly arranged covers. It's a small, modern jazz big band that tackles the music with verve. The title track shows off Beavers' fortitude as a composer. Its long note theme soars over a bubbling bop, and his... read more
Josh Nelson - The Sky Remains
by Keizo Takada, Music Pen Club (Japan)
Josh Nelson, a Jazz pianist plays an active role in Los Angeles, was born in 1978. When he was 19 years old, he released his first album "First Stories" and has released many albums that mainly feature his originals. He toured various countries as a pianist for Natalie Cole for 6 years. He has been a music director for Sara Gazarek over 10 years, toured in Japan with her, and played together in her latest album "Dream in Blue".He has also... read more
Jordan VanHemert - Survival of the Fittest
by C. Michael Bailey, Wild Mercury Rhythm
We needn't consider jazz as only a product of the Ease and West Coasts. The American interior also provides its share of splendid jazz music and musicians. An example is tenor saxophonist Jordan VanHemert. Born in Cheongju, South Korea and raised in Holland, Michigan, VanHemert took up alto saxophone at 11, eventually gravitating to the tenor saxophone in high school. Following a degree in music from Central Michigan University and graduate... read more
Steve Million - What I Meant to Say
by Bill Brownlee, Plastic Sax
Musicians have long been required to play with tactful quietude if they intend to find steady work in Kansas City's jazz venues. Three outstanding musicians who performed together in Kansas City in the late 1970s and early 1980s subtly subvert the low-key approach on an instructive new album.
Joined by bassist John Sims, pianist Steve Million, guitarist Steve Cardenas and drummer Ron Vincent play straight-ahead jazz with exacting brilliance... read more
Richard Sussman - Live at Sweet Rhythm
by David Franklin, Cadence
Thirty-one years ago, pianist-composer Richard Sussman released an LP (2/79, p. 54) that became something of an
underground Post-Bop classic. To celebrate Free Fall's CD release in 2003, Sussman reconstituted most of the original group (saxist Larry Schneider didn't make it) for a two-night gig at New York's Sweet Rhythm.
Although between the 1979 recording and the 2003 one, trumpeter Harrell, tenorist Bergonzi, bassist Richmond, and... read more
Jim Knapp Orchestra - It's Not Business, It's Personal
by Paul de Barros, Seattle Times
He was a band leader, composer, trumpet player and longtime faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts, but Jim Knapp, who died Nov. 13, will be remembered as the primary architect of Seattle's modern jazz scene. He was 82 and living in a senior care facility in Kirkland, where he died of congestive heart failure and complications from diabetes, which had prompted the amputation of a lower leg some years ago.
"He was the sound of this... read more
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