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CD Reviews
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Written by Don Berryman
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
 Bach: The Brandenburgs A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane is the Turtle Island String Quartet's tribute to the music of John Coltrane and Jacques Loussier explores the baroque with Bach: The Brandenburg, his interpretation of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos - both on Telarc. Turnabout may be fair play, but these offerings are better than fair, one is quite nice and the other is splendid. None of this is really new, The Turtle Island String Quartet has been illuminating jazz for over 20 years, and Jacques Lossier has been reinterpreting Bach for at least 50. "I am doing what I've always done, which is to explore this music, and -- while remaining respectful to Bach -- finding new, interesting and surprising things to say." - Jacques Lossier |
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Written by Carmel DeSoto
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
 Samson Trihn 23 years old, composer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader, musical director, producer, and saxophonist, Samson Trinh paints a portrait of mastery with his colleagues, friends, cohorts and posse. The definition of painting is; the perception and representation of intensity. Every point in space has different intensity. Painting is one of the basic skills needed by an artist to make masterpieces and works of art. The means of representing this intensity in painting is therefore the shade, nuance, i.e. the span between white and black with all visible gray shades - the difference in intensity. Trinh’s debut Very Strange Night conveys this message with creative compositional intricacies, nuances, shades of sounds and pleasing intensity. |
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Written by Joe Montague
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
 In Clear View Hey, everybody Andrew Neu is throwing a party and it is a big “Celebration”. Neu a Philadelphia native and master of three saxophone voices (tenor, soprano and alto) has just released his CD In Clear View and it opens with a star studded cast of musicians and talented vocalists performing Kool and The Gang’s song “Celebration”. Neu’s initial response after he heard the final mix for “Celebration” was, “We were all sitting in the studio going wow I can’t believe that somebody hasn’t done this before. We were so excited about it. You can’t listen to this track without being pumped up about it because it is so positive. This is such a great tune and it is the time to bring this one back.” |
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Written by Carmel DeSoto
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 Elisabeth Lohninger: The Only Way Out is Up Vocalist/Composer, Elisabeth Lohninger, a New York artist drawing from the sights, sounds and experiences of New York and her originating native land of Austria, has articulately put together an outstanding collection of eclectic and stirring compositions. All songs are written by Elisabeth Lohninger, except track 4 by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman, track 8 by Charlie Smalls, & track 9 by Steve Swallow; all lyrics by were composed by Lohninger. |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
 Bob Mintzer: In the Moment There seem to be two groups of listeners who gravitate to the music of saxophonist Bob Mintzer. One the one hand, he is one of the most prolific and esteemed Big Band leaders and arrangers in jazz history, a graduate himself of the famed Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and a frequent nominee for big band Grammies. One the other hand, he is a 15-year veteran of the Grammy-winning, smooth/funk quartet, The Yellowjackets. It’s not surprising, then, that Mintzer’s name is not often connected with small ensemble, straight-ahead post bop material. Yet, it is this “third face” of Bob Mintzer that shines on his new quartet release, In the Moment (Art of Life Records), a recording that should readily expand the fan base of this eclectic tenorman. |
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Written by Joe Montague
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Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
 Scott Tarulli Every once in awhile a jewel goes undiscovered and gathers dust. Fortunately for me, while surfing the internet one night in December, I discovered the music of New England guitarist Scott Tarulli. The teacher from the Berklee College of Music has released two albums to date, his studio project Transitions and the fall 2004 live recording September In Boston: Live, performed at the Abbey Lounge. If you want to hear how a guitar should be played then you had better grab a copy of this live CD. He pushes out the boundaries beyond those normally explored by jazz musicians. Spectacular keyboard player Dennis Hughes, bassist Jordan Scanella and drummer Michael Iannantuoni join Tarulli on this evening. When recording live projects they often are tweaked so much in the final mixing that they might as well have been recorded in a studio or the ambient noises are so distracting that it detracts from the musicians. However September In Boston: Live escapes all of those pitfalls. Sound engineer Eric Saulnier and Tarulli captured the moment and you the listener find yourself with a front row seat at the awesome September 21, 2004 concert. |
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