Michael Rabinowitz has made a career out of taming the wild bassoon in order to make it a jazz instrument. This one is his most successful, bringing out different dynamics in the unyielding instrument in various forms with his team…
Month: May 2023
Aaron Jay Myers: Late Night Banter
Composer Aaron Jay Myers creates a new approach to chamber music on this album, with songs ranging in delivery by solo voice to tentettes. The music is as varied as the band size as well, with a abstract “Save One…
Eric Bibb: Ridin’
Few artists are able to mix music and social commentary as seamlessly as acoustic blues artist Eric Bibb. This time around, he weaves stories and tales with a handful of disparate guests, and makes it all work in the rural…
Mark Lockett: Swings & Roundabouts
Music inspired by Ornette Coleman’s groundbreaking quartet of the late 50s is saluted with original material delivered by drummer Mark Lockett and his team of David Binney/as, Duane Eubanks/tp and Matt Penman/b. The style, once considered cataclysmic, is quite easily…
Object Heavy: Love & Gravity
Blue eyed soul reminiscent of The Young Rascals or black southern stompers like The O’Jays are put together by Richard Love/voc, Brian Swislow/key, Leo Plummer/g, Sam Kaplan-Good/dr and Ian Taylor/b for a foot stomping collection of originals. There’s a healthy…
Backtrack Blues Band: A Day By The Bay
The joint was jumping at the Tampa Bays Blues Festival back in April, 2022 as he Backtrack Blues Band hit the stage running with a barrelhouse of blues rocking. The team of Sonny Charles/voc-harm, Kid Royal/voc-g, Little Johnny Walter/g-voc, Joe…
Jeau James: Fated
Playing guitar and bass and displaying a rowdy voice, Jeau James teams up with a head banging team of Kenny Aronoff/dr, Carl Byron/B3 and Eric Corne/g-voc for a mix of originals and metallic covers. There’s lot of acid in the…
Dominic Miller: Vagabond
Soft and introspective moods are formed by acoustic guitarist Dominic Miller, as he’s joined by Jacob Karlzon/p-key, Nicolas Fiszman/b and Ziv Ravitz/dr on this album of quietudes. There are moments of Mediterranean delicacies as on the gentle “Clandestin” and soft…
Jan Cronin: I Thought About You
Cozy moods are served up by the relaxed voice of Jan Cronin as she serves up conversational standards in the chamber mood of guitarist Andy Reiss and bassist Jim Ferguson. She sounds like she’s sitting at your table on “The…
COOL STRINGS…Jim Hall: The Early Albums Collection
One of the most influential guitarists of all time, Jim Hall created the now imitated “cool” sound of using silence and quietude as dynamics in a song. Throughout his long career, he performed on scores of classic albums with artists…