Guitarist Luke Hendon delivers a winning and swinging album that mixes gypsy jazz with deft ensemble work The team includes rhythm guitarists Josh Kaye, Ted Gottsegen and Hendi Looze, and along with violinist Pooquette, reedist Adrian Cunningham and bassist Ben…
Month: October 2016
Free Nelson Mandoomjazz: The Organ Grinder
The trio of Rebecca Sneddon/sax, Colin Stewart/b and Paul Archibald/dr-key team up for some dark and quirky sounds on this collection of originals. The team delivers a rockish trudge with Sneddon’s alto sax on “Open the Gate” while dark and…
A MONTH FOR GIVING THANKS
Isn’t it amazing that almost every holiday has a song except Thanksgiving? What’s THAT all about?!? There’s even songs for The Great Pumpkin, thanks to Charlie Brown. Why do we give Thanksgiving such short shrift? Thankfulness is one of the…
VROOM! Music Soup: Cut To The Chase
An organ trio of Greeks deliver a full plate of comfort food for consumption. The three chefs, Evgenia Karlafti/B3-key-voc, Nestor Dimopoulos/g and Vagelis Ktozabasis/dr deliver sounds as thick as tsadziki sauce and sweet as galactoburiko on toe tapping pieces like…
JOHN MAYALL: BLUE HORIZONS
IT’S THE RARE ARTIST THAT HAS TWO “BRAND NEW” RELEASES THAT ARE ALMOST 50 YEARS APART. FOUR SCORE +1 YEAR BLUES LEGEND JOHN MAYALL CONTINUES TO DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH WITH ONE OF HIS LONGEST LASTING QUARTETS IN…
Rez Abbasi & Junction@The Blue Whale 10.29.16
The Pakistan bred and East Coast fed guitarist Rez Abbasi may have been jesting when he stated at the beginning of the 70 minute set “We’re going to play a lot of Rush tonight”, but the energy emitted by the…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Larry Wilson: No Secrets No Lies
Just when you started losing hope in the new generation of jazz artists… Larry Wilson plays drums, percussion, B3, keyboards, bass, sings and I think he swept up the studio after all of the recording was done as well. He…
BET’CHA FORGOT ABOUT…Barbara Dane with Tammy Hall: Throw It Away
Singer Barbara Dane’s career goes way back to sessions with Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Memphis Slim and The Chambers Brothers. I didn’t know she was still alive, but she is, and is well! She mixes rootsy blues with…
Jimmy O’Connell Sixtet: Arrhythmia
Trombonist and leader Jimmy O’Connell brings together a muscular hard bop team of Andrew Gold/as-ss, Tim Basom/g, Tuomo Uusitalo/p, Peter Slavov/b and Jimmy MacBride/dr through an impressive mix of jazz standards and originals. O’Connell’s tone is bold, strong and confident,…
Ricardo Silveira & John Leftwich: Cosmos
Here’s another gorgeous production of Brazilian music released by Adventure Music. This time, you get the team of acoustic guitarist Ricardo Silveira and bassist John Leftwich along with kiko Freitas on drums and guest legend Hubert Laws on the flute.…