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Entries from June 2015

Sunny Kim and Ben Monder: The Shining Sea: Live at Olympus Hall

People who know me know that I am not particularly interested in jazz vocals or straight-up renditions of jazz standards. One of my hobbies is playing the drums, and I am also not really motivated to listen to music without drums or some sort of percussion. So, I put off reviewing The Shining Sea: L…

Date: Jun 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

BOLO: BOLO

There is an ancestral vocation that devout musicians draw inspiration and bearing from. Once on this chosen spiritual path, they enter into a mesmerizing plateau of creativity which is only accessible through profound belief in the task at hand, and a complete mastery of their instrument.

Date: Jun 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Ivo Perelman: Counterpoint

Tenor sax strongman Ivo Perelman underscores the objective for this release, advising that “This combination, with viola and guitar–I’ve never before used this particular grouping … I knew it would be challenging, with dense textures and this three-part counterpoint.” However, the respective musi…

Date: Jun 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Michael Vlatkovich: Mortality

Wow. Where to start? Apropos of its title, Mortality is huge

Date: Jun 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Dmitry Baevsky: Over and Out

New York based saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky’s fourth release as a leaderOver and Out finds the St Petersburg native in a spare setting backed only by bass and drums. With his alto’s warm, organic tone in the spotlight, Baevsky interprets a mixture of his originals and standards with intense lyricism a…

Date: Jun 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Universal Indians with Joe McPhee: Skullduggery

Throughout his career multi-instrumentalist m: Joe McPhee has always appeared remarkably open to collaborations with musicians from different scenes. Sometimes these blossom into more established groupings such as his regular hook ups with the Scandinavian power trio {{m: The Thing = 2226…

Date: Jun 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Konstantin Scherbakov: Eroica

Why Konstantin Scherbakov? Why Beethoven? Why ask Why? In the Book of Exodus, when Moses asked God what to call Him, God said, “I AM WHO I AM.” Same thing with Scherbakov and Beethoven

Date: Jun 28th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews