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…
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·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.
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·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…
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·Michael Vlatkovich: Mortality
Wow. Where to start? Apropos of its title, Mortality is huge
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·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…
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·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…
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·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
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