Here’s a fresh sounding guitarist that makes his music flow with glowing delight. Fernando Ulibarri brings together Jim Gasior/p-key, Jsoh Allen/b and John Yarling/dr for nine originals that deliver a subtle post modern sound that glides gently and overwhelms you…
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A COOKER…Joshua Breakstone: With the Wind and the Rain
Here’s a guy with a guitar in a format you’re gonna love. Joshua Breakstone has a wonderfully lyrical sound to his axe and can make it flow like water or burn like a forest fire. What makes this session so…
LOVELY…John Brown: Quiet Time
Here’s a guy I’ve never heard of before, but he sure knows how to put an album together. Bassist John Brown collects a Decalogue of tunes from a wide variety of composers, ranging from James Taylor to Elvin Jones (have…
Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz: Genevieve & Ferdinand
A number of jazz vocalists are veering over to the more folky side of life, with Kate McGarry being the latest to join up with Tierney Sutton and Kathleen Grace. This session recorded “live” at Soundpure Studios in North Carolina…
Hera with Hamid Drake: Seven Lines
The group Hera consists of Waclaw Zimple/cl-harm, Pawel Postaremczak/sax-harm, Maciek Cierlinski/hurdy-gurdy, Raphael Roginski/g, Ksawery Wojcinski/b, and drummers Pawel Szpura and Hamid Drake.Together, the perform at the Krakow Jazz Autumn Festival at a 2012 show, and emphasize music from Central Asia…
OLD SOULS SOUNDING FRESH…Catherine Russell: Bring it Back, Barbara Levy Daniels: Love Lost and Found
Here are a couple of female vocalists that show that expression mixed with swing never goes out of style. Daughter of famed artist circa Louis Armstrong, Catherine Russell take you back to the sounds of Luis Russell with two beat…
John Adorney: The Wonder Well
John Adorney does it all here. Well, almost. He handles the keyboards and synths, cello, guitar, banjo, sitar, dulcimer, auto harp and even lends his voice on a track, while guest Daya handles the rest of the singing and Richard…
Lisa Hilton: Kaleidoscope
Pianist/composer Lisa Hilton continues her trek as one of the more original sounding performer these days. Influenced by many, but sounding only like herself, her signature sound of using all 88 ivories is impressively on display here in solo, trio…
Anthony Wilson’s Guitar Quartet@The Edye 03.07.14
Guitar fans were in fret heaven at The Edye Friday night as Anthony Wilson brought together some of the best pickers around for a quartet’s worth of picking, strumming, tapping and plucking. Wilson’s 2013 Season’s album which debuted the 4…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Romero Lubambo: So-Brazilian Essence
This is the Romero Lubambo album you’ve been waiting for. The Brazilian guitarist is best known for his work as accompanist for Luciana Souza; she always gave him a few songs to perform on his own on stage and crack…