Entries from December 2013
Tony Succar: Tony Succar y Mixtura: De One Live Sessions, Vol. 1
Arranger, producer and percussionist m: Tony Succar and his Latin jazz band Mixtura offer their renditions of a handful of standards on the 2013 album De One Live Sessions Vol. 1. Though a studio album, the band embraces the “live in the studio” feeling, which shines throughout. A DVD of…
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·Flash featuring Peter Banks: In Public – Udder Chaos / Live At Cowtown Ballroom
Late guitarist m: Peter Banks turned quite a few heads as an exceptional guitarist when he burst onto the scene during the initial manifestation of the progressive rock outfit, Yes. But due to artistic differences he left the band in 1970, and subsequently formed Flash, which was a quart…
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·Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live From New York!
When trumpet titan m: Dizzy Gillespie left this earth he left no shortage of disciples behind. His now-legendary peers (i.e. saxophonists m: Jimmy Heath and m: Benny Golson ), a cadre of killer Cubans ( m: Arturo Sandoval , multi-reedist {{m: Paquito D’Rivera…
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·Professor Louie and The Crowmatix: Wings On Fire
Professor Louie (Aaron Louis Hurwitz) and the Crowmatix hail from the artist colony, Woodstock, NY and have backed guitarist Rick Danko (The Band) amid other projects, along with their notoriety as supreme audience pleasers during live performances. Yet part of the magic lies within the group’s harm…
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·Skip Wilkins Quartet: Czech Dreams
World-class jazz pianist Skip Wilkins regularly splits his time between Eastern Pennsylvania–where he teaches at Lafayette College in Easton–and Central Europe where he recently spent fifteen months in Prague. Czech Dreams, dedicated to the Czech people, is a result of touring throughout the Czech…
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·John Funkhouser: Still
With the unpredictable sensibility and graceful prowess of a cat, m: John Funkhouser and his core trio draw the listener into Still, an intelligent and poignant collection of alluring tracks that display an inner sense of musical exploration and innovation. Funkhouser is masterful as bot…
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·Victory Jazz Quartet: Origin
Most of the jazz fusion groups of the 1970s threw more instruments into the mix than flugelhornist m: Al Moretti does on Origin. His Victory Jazz Quartet finds Moretti with his horn, fronting a simple rhythm section–keyboard, bass and drums. Fusion evolved from trumpeter {{m: Miles Davi…
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