Usually remembered for releasing some advanced-thinking jazz and blues albums in the 1960s, Candid Records had a renaissance in the late 1980s when Alan Bates started up the label again, creating a catalogue of artists both new and old. Here…
Month: April 2023
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double: March On
Drummer Tomas Fujiwara brings together a formidable team of guitarists Mary Halvorson/Brandon Seabrook, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet and fellow drummer Gerald for an open field running collection of originals. “Smoke” brings in droplets of chiming guitars…
Greg Ward’s Rogue Parade: Dion’s Quest
Playing alto sax and singing, Greg Ward teams up Matt Gold/g-eff-voc, Dave Miller/g-eff/voc, Matt Ulery/b-voc and Quin Kirchner/dr-voc for a collection of moody originals. The team is rockfish on the upbeat and heat producing “Crimson Clay””, with Kirchner driving the…
D. B. Shrier Quartet: D.B. Shrier Emerges
Here’s a reason why its fun to review albums, s every once in awhile you find a real obscure beuaty. This one is a discovery of the rare 1967 album by tenor saxist D. B. Shrier, who’s teamed with Mike…
TRIOS…Vincent Meissner Trio: Wille, Nguyen Le Trio: Silk and Sand
Good things in threes… Pianist Vincent Meissner teams together with bassist Josef Zeimetz and drummer Reichmann for some modern trio work. With snappy drums, Messner gets Chopinesque on ”Things” and elegant with rich bass on “Sonny” The team digs in…
Dave Liebman: Live At Smalls
Legendary sax man Dave Liebman stretches out for three songs at a gig at Smalls back in 2022 with Peter Evans/tp, Leo Genovese/p, John Hebert/b and Tyshawn Sorey/dr. He pl ays both tenor and soprano , with the team changing…
Marc Amacher: Roadhouse
The blues get raunchy and raucous with the snarling vocals of Marc Amacher, who also blows a howling harmonica and plays guitar with fellow ax man Philip Gerber, bassist Jurg Schmidhauser and drummer Christoph Berger. The band snarls through the…
NRBQ: Tiddlywinks
This album is a reissue (and extra cuts) of the NRBQ’s 1980 album, which was the beginning of the renaissance of the team of Terry Adams/keys-voc, Joey Spampinato/b0g-voc, Al Anderson/g-voc, Tom Ardolino and The Whole Wheat Horns of Donn Adams/tb…
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles
Ben Rosenblum creates a series of varying moods, depending if he’s playing the piano or accordion with Wayne Tucker/tp-fh, Jasper Dutz/as-bcl-fl, Rafael Rosa/g, Marty Jaffe/b, Ben Zweig/dr and Xavier Del Castillo/ts-fl. With the squeeze box, he creates Eastern European folk…
Wynton Marsalis Septet@Granada Theatre 04.05.23
“I just want to play well enough for you to invite me back” So joked jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, returning from a tour in Asia to continue his 40 year relationship with the UCSB Arts and Lectures Department. Marsalis has…