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Bobby Selvaggio - Short Stories
by Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
Like the Japanese calligraphy art know as enso, the condensed and succinct introduction alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio delivers on the track "Price Of Being (Intro)" is a disciplined stroke, delivered with an ease and elegance that belies the character and control required for such a statement. He works his instrument through this exercise with such command and strength, the sound gives the impression it is effortless.
But then, such is... read more
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters - Abstract Quantities
by Von Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, BelgienInfo (Germany)
Das vorliegende aktuelle Album ist nicht das erste Album des Quartetts, das bei De W.E.R.F. Records erschienen ist. Zuvor wurden bereits „Imaginary Sketches" (W.E.R.F. 088) und „Urban Nightingale" (W.E.R.F. 108) veröffentlicht und von der einschlägigen Fachpresse hochgelobt. Auch das Publikum war von diesen Einspielungen des Pianisten Bram Weijters sehr angetan. Weijters gehört überdies zum Ensemble des Bassisten Piet Verbist namens... read more
Don Lanphere - Where Do You Start?
by Butch Berman, Berman Music Review
From the first notes you hear, you know it's Don. Those soft, lush compelling tones envelope you like stepping into a luxurious hot bath. Seductive, you almost have to sigh�
Yeah, we're talkin' about Don Lanphere, one of my all-time most beloved jazz figures and one of the best friends that I've ever had in the jazz business that I've never met face to face (still keeping up our tradition, huh Don?) Anyway, this new CD is entitled "Where... read more
Dawn Clement - Break
by Andrew Hamlin, Seattle Sound Magazine
Seattle-based jazz pianist and singer Dawn Clement's back with a new album, Break. I just hope she doesn't wait another five years between albums. I reviewed Hush, her debut as a leader, back in 2003, remarking that she "eloquently shares space with her bandmates ? but her solo excursions show her capable of emulating a whole band, condensing, expanding, and rippling lines on her right side and mining new rhythms on her left." She's still all... read more
John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawčaptak Quartet - Violin Memory
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4-STARS Guitarist John Stowell does not hesitate when it comes to taking on unconventional projects. 2021 saw him teaming with vocalist Dan Dean on Rain Painting (Origin Records)—an album of featuring an overdubbed layering of voices (Dean's) making for lush and enriching choir-like harmonics, accompanied by Stowell's various guitars.
The Portland-based guitarist's follow-up finds him teaming with trombonist Dave Glenn, a longtime... read more
George Colligan - The Endless Mysteries
by Ben Turner, Jazz Reviews
George Colligan's been busy gigging, teaching ingrates like myself at Portland State, raising a son, and he had time to record a great trio album with Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier. Man, what am I doing with my life?
George is a long-time friend of and collaborator with Jack DeJohnette, touring worldwide and appearing with him at last year's Portland Jazz Fest. He holds degree in trumpet from Peabody, mostly taught himself piano, and... read more
Dave Liebman | John Stowell - Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet
by Dawid Malanowski, MultiKulti Project (Poland)
5-STARS Steve Lacy, one of the great innovators of jazz, considered Sidney Bechet to be a genius, New York clarinettist David Krakauer repeatedly paid him a musical tribute, now Dave Liebman, who played in groups of the greatest jazz fans such as John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, and Miles Davis reaches for his compositions. In 2011, Liebman received the prestigious American award Master of Jazz, awarded to the most important jazzmen. When the... read more
Carlos Vega - Bird's Ticket
by Michael Jackson, Downbeat Magazine
****
Miami-born Vega, assistant professor at Florida A&M University, returned to Chicago to record this, his first leader release. Vega had been active on Chicago's lively Latin jazz scene, notably with the cracking Chicago Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble during his years as a graduate student in the early aughts. He rejoins CALJE co-leader Victor Garcia for a sizzling and sophisticated set of 10 Vega originals.
Bass ace Josh Ramos anchors... read more
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