Having earned his stars and stripes with the likes of Oscar Peterson, Cannonball Adderley, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane and Horace Silver (just to name a few), at 84 Louis Hayes is the last of the living and active drummers to…
Month: January 2022
Mauricio J. Rodriguez Project: LUZ
On a wide variety of basses, Marurico J. Rodriguez teams up with Vicente Viloria and a wide mix and match team of musicians and vocalist for a mix of atmospheres. His bass melds with percussion and drums on the upbeat…
Alex Brown: The Dark Fire Sessions
Playing piano and Fender Rhodes, Alex Brown joins together a core team of Zach Brown/b and Eric Doob/dr, also bringing in guitarist Matthew Stevens for a bulk of the load along with various guests on guitar and percussion on various…
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS=MUSIC? Mosaic: This Is It!, Futari: Underground
Does the fact that one is using musical instruments mean that music is actually being played? Here are a couple of albums that both asks and answers the question. Legendary pianist Satoko Fujii forms a trio with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura…
Laurence Cook/Jacques Coursil/Warren Gale/Perry Robinson/Steve Tintweiss: Ave B Free Jams
Captured (and that is the right word for a wild animal) by bassist Steve Tintweiss, this free jam from 1967 in NYC gives an aural history of what the free jazz movement of the time was all about. The sound…
Lizard Music: Arizone!
The pop-rock band Lizard Music got together about 25 years ago, and decided to do a reunion of such on this new release. The team consists of alumni Mikael Jorgensen/key-g-voc, Craig Smith/dr-voc Chris Apple/b-tp-voc and Erik paparazzi/g-key/voc. The songs sound…