Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping Deluxe Edition There are certain instruments that struggled for attention in the years when the jazz ecology was an overwhelmingly male preserveor rather, when many men perceived jazz to be a male preserve, and a heterosexual, alpha male one at that. Exhibit A, the […]
Painter Of Dreams album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Misha Tsiganov: Painter Of Dreams A mainstay musician in the vibrant and exciting jazz scene of New York City, Russian-born pianist ” data-original-title title>Misha Tsiganov presents his fifth Criss Cross album, Painter of Dreams, which features six original compositions and two familiar reimagined standards, with every piece […]
Everything You Could Be album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Christopher Parnis: Everything You Could Be ” data-original-title title>Kenny Wheeler influences and you have Everything You Could Be, the debut album from Canadian bassist Christopher Parnis bassb.1999 ” data-original-title title>Christopher Parnis. Parnis has been involved as a bandleader and sideman in the Canadian jazz circuit for many […]
Awakening album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Andrew Vogt: Awakening ” data-original-title title>Andrew Vogt‘s Awakening is a profound exploration of the bass guitar’s potential as a melodic and rhythmic force. The album highlights Vogt’s exceptional musicianship and compositional skill as he delves into a rich sonic palette. It is a jazz album that feels […]
Silver Shadow album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Slowly Rolling Camera: Silver Shadow ” data-original-title title>Slowly Rolling Camera‘s self-titled debut (Edition, 2014) to Silver Shadow feels like hearing two different bands entirely. Granted, just about any outfit might sound completely changed after switching from vocal songs to all-instrumental pieces. Besides that obvious shift in tone, […]
Live at the Poster Museum album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Robby Ameen: Live at the Poster Museum There are pluses and minuses to all recordings, the attributes stacking up like cordwood due to the virtuosity of the musicians, the compositional value of the tunes and the basic, primary aim of the leader. In this case, the leader, […]
Lotus Blossom album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Alex Hendriksen: Lotus Blossom ” data-original-title title>Coleman Hawkins. Afterwards the player was asked by his friend whether he had enjoyed the experience. “It was OK,” he said, “but Coleman Hawkins scared the shit out of me.” His friend replied, “Coleman Hawkins is meant to scare the shit […]
Orile To Berlin album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » RAH & The Ruffcats: Orile To Berlin Among the many Afrobeat bands which have emerged outside Nigeria since Fela Kuti passed in 1997, some of them first class, only a tiny few have succeeded in getting close to the sheer majesty of sound that Kuti conjured. The […]
Strum album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » 9 Horses: Strum ” data-original-title title>9 Horses is called Strum because every track features the sound of a strummed instrument. There are over 20 stringed instruments involved, with mandolins, violins, guitars, banjos, basses and pianos, in various combinations, forming the main components. They are strummed, plucked or […]
In Situ album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Alexa Torres: In Situ By Mike Jurkovic June 18, 2024 Sign in to view read count With balletic verve, Latin violinist ” data-original-title title>Alexa Torres goes about her debut disc, the hugely confident, ear and eye opening In Situ, with an inquisitive gusto and aplomb that belies […]