Entries from April 2014
Alex LoRe Trio: Dream House
m: Greg Osby ‘s Inner Circle Music label has played host to quite a few emerging saxophonists: baritone saxophonist m: Lauren Sevian ‘s debut, alto saxophonist m: Logan Richardson ‘s second date, and the first two records from m: Melissa Aldana , the winner…
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Linley Hamilton: In Transition
The title of trumpeter Linley Hamilton’s second release for Northern Irish label Lyte Records tells a tale; in the three years since Taylor Made (Lyte Records, 2011) Hamilton has dug deep into the essence of his playing, refining his compositional approach and instilling a greater economy of notes i…
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Mario Pavone: Street Songs
Listing an accordion in a jazz sextet’s lineup evokes either thoughts of avant-garde leanings or maybe kitschy hipsterism. Not so for bassist m: Mario Pavone .Street Songs includes Adam Matlock’s bellows-driven squeezebox, not as a gimcrack ornament, but a link to the immigrant working cl…
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Stefano Pastor and Charlotte Hug: Paragon D’archi
The title of the debut duo album of Swiss viola player and vocalist m: Charlotte Hug and Italian violinist m: Stefano Pastor is symbolic and insightful. Archi in Italian means bows, as the ones used for the string instruments of Hug and Pastor, but also arches, as in architec…
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Charlie Dennard: From Brazil To New Orleans
Thousands of miles separate Brazil and New Orleans, but pianist/composer Charlie Dennard thinks these two locales are a lot closer than that. This album is his way of showing that. Dennard, a former student of m: Ellis Marsalis who’s served as a music director for Cirque du Soleil product…
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Felipe Salles: Uganda Suite
In 2008 saxophonist/composer m: Felipe Salles offered up the superb South American Suite (Curare Records). The highly rhythmic ode to his home continent seemed a natural for Salles, who hails originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He now moves his focus to the east, across the Atlantic for t…
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Marc Ribot Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard
It had been 16,631 days since bassist m: Henry Grimes had last played music at New York’s infamous Village Vanguard. His performance, with saxophonist m: Albert Ayler , on December 18, 1996 was recorded and released as In Greenwich Village (Impulse!, 1967). Back after 45 years…
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