Month: March 2015

Tigran Hamasyan: Mockroot

Here’s a release that takes you through a variety of moods and atmospheres. Tigran Hamasyan brings a voice and selection of various keyboards along with a band of Sam Minaie/b and Arthur Hnatek/dr on this collection of originals. Sometimes he creates thoughtful…

Anouar Braham: Souvenance

Tunisian born oud master Anouar Braham has released a number of albums in intimate envrironments, but this time out he gets ambitious, and successfully so, by teaming up with a string quartet and a string orchestra along with a simpatico…

SWING AND BOP FROM AVID…Earl Hines: Four Classic Albums Plus, Harry James: Four Classic Albums Plus, Cecil Payne: Three Classic Albums Plus, Phil Woods: Four Classic Albums

Uk-based Avid continues its stellar reissue program, this time spotlighting guys that were the standard bearers for swing and bop, respectively. Earl “Fatha” Hines is easily one of the top 5 most important pianists in jazz history, liberating it from it’s…