High Note Records continues to release important concert sessions from the famed Keystone Korner, this one featuring Cedar Walton. This session finds Walton at the piano and keyboards, just after leaving Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Eastern Rebellion and starting…
Month: April 2017
Juan de Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All-Stars@Catalina’s 04.19.17
Juan de Marcos easily proves he is a faithful man. Since moving on as one of the key members of famous Buena Vista Social Club, he is now celebrating 20 years of his own band, the Afro-Cuban All Stars, accompanied…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Petros Klampanis: Chroma
Petros Klampanis brings his bass to create rich pastels of color on this richly textured album of originals. He teams up with Gilad Hekselman/g, Shai Maestro/p, John Hadfield/dr, Keita Ogawa/perc and a string section to create sweeping sonic panoramas. Hints…
POST WEATHER REPORT…Miroslav Vitous: Ziljabu Nights
The founding bassist of Weather Report, Miroslav Vitous, continues his sonic vision in this concert recording of material that sounds like the first three albums of the genre-changing band. His wide ranging bass is teamed with two sax players (Gary…
John Stein: Tones
Thick toned guitarist John Stein creates a swinging pastoral team with a trumpet/flugelhorn (Phil Grenadier) and flute (Fernando Brandao) along with a rhythm team of John Lockwood/b and Ze’ Eduardo Nazario/dr. The mixture of string and woodwinds works marvelously to…
Beat Funktion: Green Man
You’re not going to believe your ears on this one, but the band Beat Funktion is actually from Sweden. Daniel Lantz/key-comp, Karl Olandersson/tp, Olle Thunstrom/ts, Johan Oijen/g, Paul Johnson/b, Jon Eriksson/dr, Ola Bothzen/perc and the gospel choir Afro team up…
Langford, Gibbs, Skerman, Anstery & Kirkbride: Exchange
A free form co-op of Mark Langford/bcl-ts, Phil Gibbs/eg, Roger Skerman/dr, Paul Anstery/b and Hugh Kirkbride/b get together for 8 songs that are wide ranging in tone, dynamics, directions and time of song. The focus is on spontaneity, which in…
Dominic J. Marshall & Friends: The Triolithic
Dominic J. Marshall plays with a surfeit of keyboards and electronics as he teams up with Glenn Gaddum/b, Jamie Peet/dr, Sam Vicaryb, Sam Gardner/dr and Lars Dietrich/as for a collection of originals. The songs all feature moments of a “classic”…
Michael Zilber: Originals for The Originals
Michael Zilber uses his compositional skills as well as his soprano and tenor saxes to give tribute to some of his musical inspirations. The core team of David Kikoski/p, James Genus/b and Clarence Penn/dr is used for all of the…
STILL, A SALTY DOG…Procol Harum: Novum
The first question that has to be asked about this most recent album lead by Gary Brooker is, “Can this really be called a ‘Procol Harum’ album if the lyrics are not done by Keith Reid?” Brooker, along with Geoff…