Month: September 2024

HARMONICA HEAVEN…Enrico Granafei: It’s Hard To Say Goodbye, Neil Adler: Ei’s Song

Harmony with the harmonica… Enrico Granafei sings a bit while  playing chromatic harmonica with a mix and match unit of Claudio Roditi/fh, Mike Longo-Amina Figarova-Neil Alexander/key, Takashi Otsuka-Greg  Jones-Christian Fabian/b, Gordon Lane-Sylvia Cuenca-Richie Morales/dr and Diego Lopoz-Annette Aguilar/perc through some originals and…

Terry Donaghue Looking For Redemption

Deep minstrel tones are painted by Terry Donaghue, singing and playing guitar with a Spartan team of Al Cross/dr, Debbie Danbrook/fl, Sean O’Connor/ts, Vezi Tayyeb/b-B3-g-synth-p and Isabel Fryszberg/voc. The eight tunes are reminiscent of JD Souther, with blueish folk themes…

Pritesh Walia:  Hopetown

Based in LA, Indian born guitarist Pritesh Walia delivers a trio album with Chris Worden/b and Gen Yoshimura/dr that gives hints of Larry Coryell and John Scofield. He’s got a rich tone to his strings, and even adds an African…

Bryn Roberts: Aloft

Pianist Bryn Roberts displays a classy reminiscence of Bill Evans on this lyrical trio album with Matt Penman/b and Quincy Davis/dr as they work through a mix of originals and standards. Roberts shows some uptown styling on the night clubbish…