Guitarist Chris Stamey creates indie sounds with a team of Charles Cleaver/p-org, Dan Davis/dr, Jason Foureman/b, a team of singers in Brett Harris, Ramune Martin and Django Haskins along with a horns section for added textures. The material ranges from…
Month: October 2020
LEO ROARS…Pago Libre: Mountain Songlines, Pago Libre Sextet: platzDADA!!, Leonardi-Colonna-Bertoni-Blumer-Geisser: Aura, Baldo Martinez-Juan Saiz-Lucia Martinez: Fragil Gigante, Amaroli-Schiaffini-Sjostrom: Duos & Trios
The team of Arkady Shilkloper on various horns and voice, Florian Mayer on violin and voice, John Wolf Brennan on various pianos and voice, Tom Gotze on bass and voice and yodeller Sonja Mogenegg put together 12 studio tracks and…
SOLO DRUM…Dave Schoepke: Tessellated Resonance
If you want to see the various sounds and directions a drum can do on its own, check out this solo album by Dave Schoepke. You get eleven pieces ranging from a collection of paradiddles on “Beyond The Slanting Surfaces”…
Max Bessesen: Trouble
Alto saxist Max Bessesen displays a post modern tone as he leads team of Ron Miles on cornet and piccolo trumpet, drummer Nathan Friedman, pianist Eric Krouse and bassist Ethan Philon on these ten originals. He displays his tone on…
Days Between Stations: Giants
With the cover of the album reminiscent of an early Genesis lp, the band Days Between Stations (consisting of keyboardists Oscar Fuentes Bills and guitarist Sepand Samzadeh and guests Billy Sherwood/voc-g-dr, and vocalists Colin Moulding, Duga McBroom and Inid Abiza)…
ROCKERS…OGD: The Big Game, Big Pacific: Welcome to the Party
I guess the team of guitarist/vocalist Derek Olivero, drummer and singer Bobby Gavin and bassist/vocalist Dave De Ranieri didn’t want to get to theological in the arrangement of their letters for the name of the band, but they sure know…
Barbara Santora: Midnight Escape/That’s Just The Way It Goes
If you like your vocals fit for a 50s film noir, check out this pair of tunes by a vocalist Barbara Santora. She takes a pair of tunes composed by pianist John Michael O’Leary, and puree’s them through a Gloria…
Edward Simon: 25 Years
This two disc set is an attractive anthology of Venezuelan born pianist and composer Edward Simon, who has been a sideman for the likes of Bobby Watson and Terence Blanchard, but is here shown what he has done on his…
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings
Ben Rosenblum plays both piano and accordion on this pastoral session with the blended horns of trumpeter Wayne Tucker, Jasper Dutz on tenor sax or bass clarinet, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Marty Jaffe, drummer Ben Zweig and guests Jake Chapman/vib,…
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
Guitarist Mary Halvorson is definitely one of the most inquisitive of today’s guitarists, looking for a place to sit in almost any atmosphere. This time around, she focuses on creating atmospheres for poetry delivered by the dreamy voice of Amirtha…