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Darryl Harper
June 18, 2010Stories In Real Time (Hipnotic Records) When was the last time you heard a recording featuring four clarinets not playing in unison, backed by a rhythm section along with a spoken word vocalist and it all worked ...
Claudio Roditi
June 15, 2010Simpatico (Resonance Records) Trumpet veteran Claudio Roditi has never considered himself a composer, but as he explains, “a trumpet player who needed to write–when I wasn’t playing that ...
Almost Back!
June 11, 2010It’s been a crazy month since we last published, but we are almost done with the transition to a new publishing system and will back in a few days to pick up were we left off. Even in the midst of finding the ...
Pharez Whitted
May 1, 2010Transient Journey (Owl Studios) Transient Journey is the first recording from Pharez Whitted in fourteen years. In that time, the trumpet player made a number of changes, including moving from Ohio to the Chicago ...
Jerry Bergonzi
April 28, 2010Three For All (Savant Records) Three For All, the latest recording from saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is a snapshot of trio work at its finest. Bergonzi, who comes out of a generation of New York brass men heavily ...
Tia Fuller
April 16, 2010Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue Records) Saxophonist Tia Fuller proves that her sophomore recording was no fluke. On Decisive Steps she goes deeper into the tradition than on her previous efforts, perhaps swinging a bit ...
Pat Metheny
April 13, 2010Orchestrion (Nonesuch Records) One of guitarist Pat Metheny’s treasured memories as a child was watching his grandfather’s player piano, a 19th-century invention which played on its own using metallic ...
The Ian Carey Quintet
April 9, 2010Contextualizin’ (Kaboocha Records) Contextualizin’, the latest from the Ian Carey Quintet, is the stuff that great jazz is made of, a blend of solid musicianship and writing. Carey’s trumpet and ...
Mort Weiss
April 7, 2010Raising The Bar: The Definitive Mort Weiss (SMS Jazz) For his latest recording, Raising The Bar, clarinetist Mort Weiss accomplishes just that, recording a solo album, something he says has never been done on a ...
Cindy Blackman
April 2, 2010Another Lifetime (Four Quarters Entertainment) Drummer Cindy Blackman returns from her more rock-oriented work with Lenny Kravitz to the inspiration of a mentor, the late, great Tony Williams. Another Lifetime is ...
