Places You Go
…o mixed to multi-channel, projecting the musical interplay with greater vividness and involvement than stereo. For more information: garyversace.com, plus the Rainey interview feature and Shepik blindfold test at AllAboutJazz. ***1/2 “An opening up of myriad new possibilities…Shepik and both band members kick out some serious musicality here from…
Everything Forgets
…Bill McHenry, and Eivind Opsvik among others, but his music makes a true statement of its own. More info: joachimbadenhorst.com, simonjermyn.com, willfulmusic.com [Jeff Williams], joesmithmusic.com….
Stories to Tell
…the Lower East Side…passionate performances.” – AllAboutJazz.com “Drummer Noonan’s notion of conflating ‘bardic and griot traditions’ has juice. The Celtic tunes and African grooves retain their singularity, even when surrounded by flashes of fusion.” – The Village Voice “…clever, tuneful and celebratory – and more often than not it just plain rock…
Train Song
…essly span eras and genres, sounding at times like early jazz, modern jazz, impressionist salon music, and late-20th-century minimalism, occasionally all at once. Prismatic in approach and global in scope, with references that extend to progressive rock, West African drumming, and Indonesian gamelan, the tunes Armus and von Tilzer have written for t…
Phoenix
…nd is Music Director of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. For more information: www.patrickzimmerli.com, www.coloradocollege.edu/summersession/musicfestival/ScottYooBio.htm home.earthlink.net/~takeishi/id1.html…
The Book of Hours
…30, 2000), and Twelve Sacred Dances (commissioned by the Jazz Composers Collective; Arabesque, 1998). Among his more than 100 compositions are two piano concertos (both premiered by the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and to be recorded by them); a string quartet; Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra; and Waves, commissioned and recorded by th…
The Well
…e a guitarist and a musician.” — David R. Adler, AllAboutJazz.com “…skillful music performed with taste, precision, and a relaxed sophistication. The confident sound is beguiling…” — Wally Shoup, Amazon.com ****1/2 “…an appealing musical hybrid with inventive playing, composing, and arranging throughout…Every tune is a winner on this standout record…
Grand Laps
…h rhythmic games, melodic rules, colours, etc. It’s just jazz! New compositions hopefully sound good and allow for all kinds of atmospheres, but they [also] contain the rules of the game for the collective improvisation. To make a good piece, the rules should be simple enough, but somehow different. We enjoy playgrounds, frames, in order to spontane…
Tyft
…k in harmonies to maintain balance, only to diverge into an industrial metal on flesh sound.” — Mark Corroto, AllAboutJazz.com “…an interesting and unusual listen…” — Signal to Noise…
Dice Thrown
…ch is the case on Dice Thrown.” — Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com “…the compositions are highly creative improvisations which seem to live in a space neither part of the jazz nor the classical worlds…Houle explores an inspiring of new range of sounds…Delbecq first of all plays a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand – the most audiophile piano with its extra b…
