The trend of giving secular social messages via song continues from Angeleno Cathy Segal-Garcia, who teams up with Anthony Wilson/g, Josh Nelson/p-key, Lorca Hart/dr and Edwin Livingston/b for a handful of protest songs and musical preachings to reflect the angst…
Month: November 2021
John McCutcheon: Bucket List
The real deal of traditional folk music is delivered by guitarist/vocalist John McCutcheon, who mixes and matches with JT Brown/b, Stuart Duncan/fid-mNS, Jon Carrol/key-voc and even goes solo for a bit. There’s some nice bluegrass feel and harmonies on the…
Flounder: I’m The Flounder
The fishy team of flounder has scaled down to David Dvorin/g-synth, Randy McKean/bcl-ts, Tim Bulkley/dr, Clifford Childers/tb-bsp-eu-harm and special guppy Jonah (could I make that name up?) Dvorin/perc. McKean’s deep and resonant bass clarinet works wonders as he strolls with…
FOLKSY FOLKS…Ian Jones: The Evergreens, Kris Gruen: Welcome Farewell, Sierra Ferrell: Long Time Coming
Guitarist/composer/vocalist Ian Jones is a kind of mix between Bob Dylan and John Denver on this acoustic album with Jesse Siedenberg/dr-b-org-g-erc, Dave Palmer-Aaron Embry/p and Tom Ball/harm. The six tunes are almost all secular leanings of biblical foundations, with songs…
Jim Yanda: A Silent Way
On amplified acoustic guitar, Jim Yanda teams with drummer Phil Haynes and Herb Robertson on trumpet, electronics and various other sound creating things for nine originals long on intuition and short on cohesion. The team scratches out sounds on “Consciousness”,…
LADIES’ VOICES… June Garber: Off The Carousel, Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What To Wear In The Dark, Lorraine Feather: My Own Particular Life
Views from the ladies eyes and voices Vocalist June Garber is one of those vocalists that proves that women look best when under-dressed. She’s backed by a team of Lou Pomanti/key, Steve Heathcote/dr, Marc Rogers/b, Jake Langley/g, Drew Jurecka/str, William…
Alex Lefaivre Quartet: Naufrages
Bassist Alex Lefaivre leads a team of Nicolas Ferron/g, Erik Hove/as and Alain Bourgeois/dr through a mix of originals and interpretations. His own material has the Paul Desmond-inspired Hove rocking out over the exciting “Boiler Room” and bluesing with Ferron…
THE KAISER REIGNS…Jeff Kaiser: Sitzfleisch I, Zeitnot V, Kaiborg: Vibrant Matters, KaiBorg + Kjell Nordeson: IntraAction,
Playing trumpet, flugelhorn, various toys and electronics along with his voice, Jeff Kaiser releases four albums/eps that are high on experimentation and spontaneity, sometimes alone and other times with some cohorts. Sitzfleisch I is 30 minutes and 20 seconds of…
Roscoe Mitchell: Dots
Legendary alto saxist/composer/music director Roscoe Mitchell is in partnership with Wendy Nelson on this album who “engineers the environment” in order to do some time-effacing recordings with various pieces of percussion, tools and toys teamed with an actual musical wind…
Miki Yamanaka: Stairway To The Stars
Pianist Miki Yamanaka mixes and matches trio and duet settings (and a solo) with her guests Orlanso Le Fleming/b and Mark Turner/ts . Her allegiance is to the bop world, and it works well on the festive duets with Le…