Saxophonist Sam Newsome Continues to Expand the Vocabulary of Soprano Saxophone on Chaos Theory: Song Cycles for Prepared Saxophone Release date: June 3, 2019 Soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome is proud to announce the June 3, 2019 release of his new solo saxophone recording, Chaos Theory: Song Cycles for Prepared Saxophone. This 15-track collection of original … Read More
OUT TODAY: Israeli Vocalist Sivan Arbel Releases “Change of Light”! “Sivan Arbel is negotiating the veritable minefield of music in New York with brazen confidence and appears likely to make more interesting and ever wonderful music as a result.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report Israeli born vocalist and bandleader Sivan Arbel is proud … Read More
Vanessa Rubin: The Dream Is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron (Nibur) A review of the singer’s album celebrating an overlooked modern jazz giant by Andrew Gilbert, Jazz Times More than a labor of love, The Dream of You is a reckoning, a polished-to-a-sheen tribute to bebop’s greatest orchestral mind. Like Tadd Dameron, vocalist/producer Vanessa Rubin came up … Read More
By: Alan Musson, UKVibe It seems appropriate that Dave Liebman should get top billing on this album, as he played on the first side of the original On the Corner which was released in 1972. Early in 1973, Liebman also joined Davis’s touring band. However, the current album is not a recreation of the music … Read More
Harpist Brandee Younger’s Soul Awakening Presents Sonic Snapshot into Infancy, Evolution and Ascent of her Powerhouse Solo Set & The Brandee Younger Quartet Due Out June 7, 2019 Pre-Release Shows: The Blue Note, May 21-May 22 Genre-defying harpist Brandee Younger is proud to unveil her fourth formal release, Soul Awakening on June 7, 2019. Surfacing … Read More
Natalie Cressman and Guitarist Ian Faquini Team Up for a Brazilian Outing Jeff Kaliss, San Francisco Classical Voice The sounds of Brazil prevail in the Bay Area in the first week of April. On Tuesday, April 2, Danilo Brito, a mandolin virtuoso of choro, a balladic genre dating back to the 19th century, plays Yoshi’s, … Read More
Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition There are many thematic elements to Ima Ima, the 57-minute, seven-track album from Meg Okura & the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble. The title has two meanings. Ima is Hebrew for mom. In Japanese Ima can be defined as now or the present time. Other topics in Ima Ima comprise womanhood and motherhood; large-scale … Read More
David Whiteis, JazzTimes If, as critic Larry Kart has postulated, jazz is “a form of self-enactment in sound,” then this “enactment” must become ambiguous, even contradictory, as the very concept of “self” in our culture becomes increasingly fluid and ineffable. Case in point: Stomping Off from Greenwood’s opener, “Metropolis,” which melds influences and identities with shape-shifting … Read More
