Playing tenor sax and clarinet, Matthieu Donarier creates a mix of pastoral ambience and elliptical moods with the prepared piano and non-prepared piano of Eve Risser, Karsten Hochapfel/s cello and Toma Gouband playing drums, stones and plants (!). Whatever happened…
Month: March 2023
LADIES AT THE MIC…Laura Karst: Dancing In Darkness, Mary Foster Conklin: These Precious Days
Warm-toned vocalist Laura Karst shows a wide range of styles with her flexible team of Walter Bankovitch/p-key, Noriyuki Ken Okada/b, Greg German/dr-perc and Modesto Briseno/tp-fh. She mixes standards with some clever obscurities and newer material, showing a wide range around…
Matt Savage Groove Experiment: The Groove Reawakens
It’s fitting that this album by pianist/keyboardist/leader Matt Savage closes with a funky take of Average White Band’s “Picking Up the Pieces”, because as soon as I heard the opening track I mentally noted that these guys sound like the…
Tomer Cohen Trio: Not The Same River
Guitarist Tomer Cohen has a tone and deliver hinting at the thick sounds of Bill Frisell and Adam Rogers. He uses his six strings in a trio format with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Obed Calvaire to create a mix…
ANA POPOVIC: BLUES POWER
“There ain’t no need for me to be a wallflower, ‘Cause now I’m living on blues power” Eric Clapton “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness” 2 Peter 1:3 “Every good thing…