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Dan Cray – Meridies
April 13, 2012(Origin Records) On his latest, Meridies, pianist Dan Cray provides a fantastic portrait of contemporary quartet of musicians at work. Cray is joined by a terrific group comprised of Noah Preminger on saxophone, ...
Paco De Lucia – En Vivo Conciertos: Live In Spain 2010
April 10, 2012(Decca Records) Guitarmaster and legend Paco DeLucía puts on a quite show on his latest, En Vivo Conciertos Live in Spain 2010. The 2-disc recording captures DeLucia live in front a very enthusiastic home audience ...
Andrea Veneziani Trio featuring Kenny Werner – Oltreoceano
March 27, 2012(Andrea Veneziani) Oltreoceano is the wonderful self-produced recording debut of bassist Andrea Veneziani. The Italian-born, New York-based musician has a fantastic voice on the instrument and does terrific work as ...
Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society
March 20, 2012(Heads Up International) After becoming the first artist from the jazz community to receive the Best New Artist Grammy award last year, and achieving yet more notoriety, one might have expected Esperanza ...
Cathy Segal-Garcia & Yoonseung Cho – Bohemian
March 6, 2012(Dash Hoffman Publishing) Singer Cathy Segal-Garcia and pianist Yoonseung Cho weave a wonderful tapestry of sound on Bohemian. The duet recording has a ‘live art’ feel to it and not the sometimes ...
Kenny Garrett – Seeds From The Underground
March 2, 2012(Mack Avenue) Grammy-winning, journeyman saxophonist Kenny Garrett is back with his first acoustic studio album since 2006. Seeds From The Underground (due out on April10) picks up where he left off very nicely. ...
Triosence with Sara Gazarek – Where Time Stands Still
February 28, 2012(Charleston Square) Where Time Stands Still brings Triosence, the trio of German-born pianist Bernhard Schüler, bassist Ingo Senst, and drummer Stephan Emig, together with American vocalist Sara Gazarek for their ...
Ruslan Sirota – Ruslan
February 21, 2012(Roxboro) Ruslan,from pianist-keyboarder Ruslan Sirota, is the debut of a talented contemporary composer and musician. His playing is stellar, as are his color-filled compositions on this recording. Sirota sings and ...
The 2012 Grammy Award Winners For Jazz
February 18, 2012Here are the Grammy Award Winners from the ceremonies held in Los Angeles, CA on February 12, 2012. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Chick Corea – “Five Hundred Miles High” from Forever Best Jazz Vocal album Terri ...
Gregory Porter – Be Good
February 17, 2012(Motema) You can count on one hand the number of times you hear an artist these days whose sophomore recording is better than their first. Gregory Porter is one of those rare artists. Porter’s Be Good goes ...