Various Jazz Styles - CD Reviews (260)
Let it Be...atles is an interesting CD and DVD homage to the legendary British group The Beatles. Part of what makes this project different to other homages is the…
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Even though the members of San Juan Collective are young musicians, they play with the maturity and music knowledge of veteran Jazz players. One can tell their jazz voca…
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Pianist and composer Ross Garren currently lives in the Los Angeles area. A student of classical composition and jazz piano at USC’s Thornton School of Music, his accola…
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Let it Be...atles is an interesting CD and DVD homage to the legendary British group The Beatles. Part of what makes this project different to other homages is the reproduc…
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Wen Mews Sunday Morning Santa Monica is a fabulous collection of Jazz and Bossa Nova tunes, all written by Wen Mew.Wen and partner Michael Parlett have the feel…
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A painstakingly-accurate performance by a jazz repertory orchestra can leave you with the feeling that something is missing. A fact-filled chronological presentation of jaz…
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According to the press release, contrabassist Bill Noertker "paints musical portraits of the natural and supernatural world." Essentially, this notion comes to fruition …
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At the age of 72, Mike Mainieri isn’t the household name among the jazz public that he should be. He played his first professional gig on vibes when he was 14 as part of…
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The first sound from Scotty Barnhart's debut release, Say It Plain, a parade whistle, will make you sit up and take notice. Your attention is justified. Barnhart is …
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The Italian-born, Boston-based guitarist Massimo Sammi is currently a composition student at the New England Conservatory, where he's won the praise of giants such as Ran B…
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A morpho is a brightly colored butterfly found in tropical forests-an apt name for this CD by Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle. In fact,like a butterfly, this music has a free fl…
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There comes a time in everyone’s life when reflection becomes a natural order of things in getting from point "a" to "b." For some of us, it’s looking at old photo album…
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Bobby Selvaggio provides a formidable assortment of musical delicacies on his most current release entitled Modern Times. Selvaggio is a superb saxophonist whose …
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Free is the title of the fourth release on the Sweet Briar Music label for the Ad Colen Quartet. Covering a wide-ranging scope of tuneful sound-vistas, this newly…
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On Craig Buhler’s most recent release Skykomish, the multitalented reed player has taken a group of wide-ranging popular songs and deftly given them significantly…
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As a collector of oxymorons and other strange combinations of ideas (my favorite is "clean dirt," followed closely by "military intelligence") even I had never considered t…
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"The qualities in music which I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity." ~ Paul DesmondD…
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Pianist Vijay Iyer relates Historicity to "the simple fact of being placed in the stream of history," here, on this 2009 trio date. Holding advanced degrees in phy…
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Filmed in Europe between 1962 and 1970, this collection of outstanding DVDs features some of the most dynamic and legendary giants of jazz music in their heyday accompan…
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The concept for most jazz albums usually occurs more conventionally, and as the result of solitary imaginative considerations, than those for Underdog, and Other Stories…
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