Playing mostly soprano sax, with a dash of alto and tenor, Alon Farber brings in the post bop combo of Katia Toobool/p, Assaf Hakimi/b and Yonatan Rosen/dr for help interpreting his own material and a couple other creative pieces. Toobool…
Author: George W. Harris
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home
So, simple, so unpretentious and so cozy. That’s what makes this album of Champian Fulton playing piano and singing with clarinetist-tenor saxist Klas Lindquist so alluring. Fulton has a girl next door voice a la Betty (In the Archie Comics)…
Robert Papacica Trio: Reverse Migration
Rich toned post bop guitarist Robert Papacica trios up with drummer Mark Ferber, bassist Kano Mendenhall and guest saxist Anthony Paolini for a collection of sophisticated originals. His tone is clean, giving a clever patternon the tricky “Hello Trees” and…
WELL SEASONED PEPPER…Art Pepper: Geneva 1980
Less than two years before his death at 56, Art Pepper was in a musical renaissance, playing each gig as if it may have been his last. He’s found here at a concert in July 5, 1980 in Switzerland with…
Bruno Elisabetsky: Alcance
Like the cover photo, guitarist Bruno Elisabetsky is outstanding in his field, bringing his suave strings into play with a lyrical team of Julian Lee/ts-ss-fl, Pedro Segundo/dr-perc, and Lex Warshawsky/b on a collection of impressively impressionistic originals. His touch on…
The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces
Big band leader and trombonist Dave Robbins puts together a big band that records and album reminiscent of a vintage radio broadcast, complete with intro and outro themes. The songs themselves have a swinging Horace Silver feel to them, ,…
Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking In Tongues
A duo album between Rachel Eckroth and John Hadfield have the two mixing and matching a busload of instruments. Eckroth is on the piano, Wurlitzer, various keys and synthesizers, and Hadfiled hits the drums, bells, kalimba and various drum machines.…
Kevin Fort: Everything I Love
Pianist Kevin Fort trios up with Joe Policastro/b and Jon Deitemyer/dr for a mix of originals and standards. His touch is in vintage post bop world, Monkish on the fun “Deceptive” and stately on the ebullient read of “Don’t Take…
Sasha Berliner: Fantome
Sasha Berliner plays vibes, congas and ohter percussions as she teams up with Harish Raghavan/b, Jongkuk Kim/dr and mixes and matches with Taylor Eigsti-Lex Korten/p-key, David Adewumi/tp-fh and Rico Jones/ts on this wide ranging collection. Excepter for the rapid bopping…
Daniel Garbin: Rising
Playing guitar and sitar, Daniel Garbin brings together Camila Cortina/p-key, Scott Litroff/as, Eddy Khaimovich/b and Brian Woodruff/dr for modern musings. His sitar adds color to pieces like the cascading “Rising” and his guitar is warm and mellow on the lyrical…