Tenor saxist Alex Hitchcock and guitarist Ant Law mix and match with a team of drummers (Kendrick Scott/Jeff Ballard), bassists (Linda May Han Oh/Sun-Mi Hong), pianist Shai Maestro, vibist Joel Ross and bass clarinetist Tim Garland on this chamber sounding…
Month: January 2023
Mathieu Soucy: Recollecting
Clean tone guitarist Mathieu Soucy teams up with Caity Gyorgy/voc, Jacob Wutzke/dr, Gentiane MG/p and Mike de Masi/b for a refreshing collection of material. Soucy has an angular sound to his bop, nifty on “Lennie’s Changes” while swinging to the…
Daniel Herskedal: Out of the Fog
Norwegian horn player Deniel Herskedal stays mostly the background on this latest album, serving as a mood setter than soloist. He features the lovely voice of Emilie Nicolas with both lyrics and a wordless presence, and the various guitars of…
Matt Carmichael: Marram
Tenor saxist Matt Carmichael creates folkish atmospheres with his mix of fiddler Charlie Stewart, pianist Fergus McCreadie, bassist Ali Watson and drummer Tom Porter. Stewart’s strings work remarkably well, giving a home spun edge to pieces like “The Far Away…
Rick Berthod: Tribute to Peter Green-Fleetwood Mac Years
In the history of the British blues scene of the late 1960s, one of the forgotten guitarists is the gone too soon Peter Green. His halcyon days were with the first edition of Fleetwood Mac and later an incarnation of…
Will Vinson: Trip Wire
Alto saxist Will Vinson puts out an elastically stretched album with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland, with Melissa Aldana bringing in her tenor sax for a couple of tunes. The music is long, languid and lanky, with the…
ARTSY LADIES…Sirintip Phasuk: Carbon, Diane Marino: I Hear Music, AubreyJohnson & Randy Ingram: Play Favorites, Diana Panton: Blue, Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Blank Canvas, Akiko Aoki: Pure Imagination
XX chromosome rated art… Sirintip Phasuk mixes vocal effects wtha wide variety of programming on her ow part, along with multi-keyboardist Kengchakaj Kenjarnka, drum programmer Nolan Byrd and of other programmers and musicians to create a synthesized mix of pop…
Galan Trio: Kinesis
Interpreting compositions from contemporary composers, the trio of pianist Petros Bouras, violinist Babis Karasivvidis and cellist Marina Kolovou create a double cd collections worth of enticing chamber sounds that mix the inquisitiveness of jazz and the melodicism of classical. Rich…
Mark Lettieri at Scherr Forum 01.18.21
One of the most difficult aspects of being a musician in today’s guitar-dominant world is to actually have a distinctive voice. While holding down the guitar chair for the acclaimed band Snarky Puppy, Marj Lettieri showed the audience at The…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****WHO KNEW? Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen: The Legendary Typewriter Tape
If you really want to get to the essence of Janis Joplin, this recent issue will answer a lot of your questions. Recorded informally back in June 24, 1964 at the home of guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, if finds a 21…