Month: November 2023

Down home rural folk blues are worn well by Nick Wade, sitting and picking on an album that sounds like it might have been on a vintage Alan Lomax recording from the Depression. His voice is akin to Muddy Walters,…

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Clever, more “jazzy” arrangements of tunes from the iconic musical Oklahoma are adroitly delivered by Audrey Silver, singing in a nightclub fashion and occasionally playing the Native American flute, teamed with Bruce Barth/p, Peter Bernstein/g, Adam Kolker/f-bcl Kahlil Kwame Bell/pec…

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Compositions by Gerald Cohen are produced by the Cassatt String Quartet, Narek Arutynian/bcl-cl and Colin Williams/tb on this recent release. On their own, the Quartet is featured on a three part “Playing For Our Lives” that ranges from askance slashes…

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Canadian-based Nick Maclean leads a vintage Blue Note-inspired ensemble of Brownman Ali/tp, Ben Duff/b Jacob Wutzke/dr and a handful of guests through a hard bopping mix of original and Herbie Hancock covers. In fact, the whole album feels like Hancock…

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So, what’s a King Crimson fan to do now that Robert Fripp has closed up shop? Well, one option is to follow Crimson alumnus Pat Mastelotto on drums, teamed with two “guitarists” that have a foot in the future. One,…

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Bassist and composer Alex Fournier brings together Bea Labikova/wwinds, Naoi McCarroll-Butler/bcl-cl, Tom Fleming/g, Michael Davidson/vib and Stefan Hegerat/dr for a mix of originals that contrast between meow ambience and intuitive free form explorations. Of the former, “Prelude” and “Fires of…

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Legendary rock drummer Carmine Appice teams up with Randy Pratt/b-ed, JZ Barrell/g and Ed Terry/voc for a hard hitting album that is reminiscent of vintage Deep Purple. The metal rings loud and proud on pieces like “Street Corner High” and…

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Call Sherlock Holmes, and see if he can find a melody… Saxist Jonathan Reisin teams up with drummer Francisco Mela for five meetings of instruments making sounds-is it music? There are some short pieces like “First Drops” that feature gravelly…

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The Juke Joint was jumping October 25-25 with  Popa Chubby holding down the court with his road kill band of Michael Merritt/b-voc, Mike Dimeo Key-voc and Stefano Giudici/dr-voc. The music is filled with sweat and grits, rough and ready on…

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