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 […]
Precipice album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Ill Considered: Precipice By Chris May June 13, 2024 Sign in to view read count The British pianist ” data-original-title title>John Tilbury believes that some free-improv musicians play for too long without pausing for literal or metaphorical breath and, to make matters worse, do not listen hard […]
Creole Orchestra Featuring René Marie album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra Featuring René Marie By Chris May June 12, 2024 Sign in to view read count Trinidad-born Etienne Charles has been fortunate in his associates during his development as a jazz musician. One of the first friends he made on arrival in the U.S.A. […]
Inside Out album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out By Neil Duggan June 10, 2024 Sign in to view read count Richard Fairhurst was 19 when he released the first of three albums as the leader of The Hungry Ants. Approaching his 50th birthday in 2024, he has gone on to become […]
Rips and Tears album review @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title title>George Ricci plays both clarinet and saxophone, although here his playing is restricted to clarinet, albeit of various persuasions. Sometimes Ricci does “klezmer meets Country and Western”; but elsewhere, he has a distinctly boppish feel, especially on “All the Things You Are.” The fact that the same recording has a cover of “House […]
Celebrating Sarah Vaughan album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan By Chris May June 7, 2024 Sign in to view read count Zara McFarlane’s fifth albuma recording that actually fits the vogueish description “project”represents a marked change of focus for the singer, from London to New York City and points […]