George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Julie Benko has a sweet gypsy flair to her voice, and uses it well on this flexible release which features her own material and some clever covers. The core team of Jason Yeager/p, Danny Weller/b and Jay Sawyer is supplemented by various horns, strings, etc to create a variety of … Read More
Dave Sumner, Bandcamp By opening with the old-school tune “Spectrum,” Rachel Therrien provides a peek at the jazz tradition through which she came up. By dedicating the rest of her new album WDYT to a wide range of modern expressionism, she’s pointing at the map to where she’s at today. But even the modern pieces don’t turn … Read More
Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad Брайан Линч, известный джазовый трубач и обладатель премии Грэмми за лучший альбом латинского джаза, запускает на своем лейбле Holistic MusicWorks новую серию релизов: Mentor Series. Первым альбомом, выпущенным Holistic MusicWorks в рамках этого проекта стал дебютный диск трубача Джареда Холла Hallways. Это вполне логично: ментором Холла является именно Брайан Линч, именно под … Read More
Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog There is a Dixieland-feel to this songbird’s production on the very first cut of her debut CD. Titled, “Tomorrow is a Day For You.” It’s a joyful composition penned by Benko and she explains in the liner notes that she wrote it as a celebration following the US Supreme … Read More
World-Renowned Drummer Ralph Peterson Returns with The Berklee-Jazz Messenger Big Band at Sculler’s, Boston November 2nd, 2017, 8pm Drummer Ralph Peterson, in partnership with his Onyx Productions Music Label proudly presents The Generation Next (Berklee) Jazz Messenger Big Band’s professional debut performance at Sculler’s, located at 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Boston, on Thursday, November 2nd. … Read More
Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933 is the long-awaited new CD from Argentinean drummer-composer Guillermo Nojechowicz and his jazz ensemble, EL ECO. The disk is being released by Zoho Music, the Grammy-winning New York-based jazz label. Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933 was inspired by a remnant of Nojechowicz’s family history, the passport that his grandmother carried when … Read More
Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog Here is a CD full of compositional diversity. Schneiderman is a prolific songwriter and presents a variety of arrangements that range from Smooth Jazz Funk on “Left Coast Lullaby” to the Latin fused “Footloose Freestyle”. He offers mellow ballads like the standard, “Unforgettable,” to “Distant Memory,” a Straight Ahead … Read More
Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm There’s a wearied soul presence to this compelling duet recording from saxophonist Nick Mazzarella and cellist Tomeka Reid. Perhaps it’s a tone set by the spiritual resonance of “Blues for Julius and Abdul,” but there’s no denying it’s a tonal quality that makes itself felt even within the swirling velocities of “Interstices” … Read More
Progressive Jazz Vocalist Kristina Koller Announces the Release of her Debut Album “Perception” Due Out January 19 2018 “Kristina has proven to be a force in the vocal jazz arena. She is always challenging herself and searching further than what she already knows. This album is a demonstration of her various abilities and how she … Read More
Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad Vandivier – один из проектов гитариста из Сан-Франциско Рика Вандивье, гитарное трио с ударником Лоркой Хартом и басистом Дэном Роббинсом. Есть у него и еще один проект, Primary Colors, с вокалистом Нейтом Прюиттом, в рамках которого Рик выпустил несколько альбомов. А вообще Вандивье – опытный и уважаемый в своих краях музыкант … Read More
