Entries from January 2017
Heather Bambrick: You’ll Never Know
You know those stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks moments that only music can elicit? Those oh-so-rare occurrences where sound and intention hypnotize, leaving a permanent mark on the soul? This writer experienced one of those sonic epiphanies in hearing Heather Bambrick’s enthralling version of “Far From..
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Nicolas Kummert: La DiversitA(C)
Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert has been influenced by African music since a two month stay in Senegal at the age of 17, where he collaborated with musicians from that country and later from Benin, Mali, Kenya, Sao TomA(C), Morocco and Tunisia. He met award-winning Blue Note guitarist {{m: Lionel… [ read more ]
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Doug Munro And La Pompe Attack: The Harry Warren Song Book
m: Doug Munro is the great nephew of Harry Warren who was the first major American songwriter to compose specifically for films. All the tunes on this CD are from movies with the exception of two Munro originals, “Blues For Harry” and “You Again” and barring those two and “Nagasaki,” were… [ read more ]
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Francois Carrier: OUTgoing
In the realm of Western music, the role of the performer has been rather circumscribed. In Classical music, the composer is king and the range of “allowed” expression rather limited.
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Mariah Parker Indo Latin Jazz: Live in Concert
Traditional Indian music, various Latin styles and contemporary jazz have negotiated an unlikely but productive friendship in the Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble, a periodically convened combo of top Northern California jazz and world music players led by pianist m: Mariah Parker . She reunites…
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John Tilbury, John Lely, Dirar Kalash, Christian Wolff: Seaside
Bearing catalogue number at100, Seaside marks another important milestone for Another Timbre–the one hundredth release on the label’s main imprint, some nine years after its first releases. To mark the event, Simon Reynell has issued music of which he is particularly proud, played by {{m: John Tilb… [ read more ]
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JoA lle LA(C)andre: A Woman’s Work…
How do you sum up the career of an improvising artist like m: JoA lle LA(C)andre ? Do you reissue a package of recordings from her 40 years of performance? That is probably not possible, given the multiple labels and the location and ownership of the masters. Besides, free improvisation, al…
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