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Joe Locke: Makram
by Neil Duggan
One of the leading vibraphone specialists of the 21st century, Joe Locke has won multiple awards and performed with artists as diverse as the Beastie Boys and Ron Carter. It's not just his musicianship on the vibraphone that sets him apart. He is a highly versatile arranger, incorporating soul and international influences. Named after the Lebanese bassist Makram Aboul Hosn, Makram is an eclectic mix of the comforting, the challenging and the familiar. Locke's customary quartet features pianist ...
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by Richard J Salvucci
According to Francis Bacon, some books are to be tasted and others to be swallowed whole. Likewise with recordings. Some are to be sampled. Others are to be thoroughly assimilated. Where the listener lands with Paul Jost will depend on a host of things. Are you political? If so, are you progressive? Then by all means, this recording is for you. Jost's soliloquy, “January 6th: An Appeal for Reason" will no doubt be convincing. If your politics are ...
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by Angelo Leonardi
Vari aspetti distinguono quest'album rispetto alla produzione del mainstream contemporaneo. Per il suo esordio da leader il contrabbassista e compositore Lorin Cohen ha riunito un settetto dall'originale e accattivante tavolozza timbrica, ottenuta accostando i suoni del vibrafono (Joe Locke), dell'armonica (Yvonnick Prene) e dello steel pan (Victor Provost). Autore di tutte le composizioni, Cohen mostra una fresca vena espressiva, presentando un jazz ritmicamente danzante e melodicamente cantabile, in cui troviamo influenze caraibiche, aromi francesi, turbolenze pianistiche tyneriane e ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
What's “home?" Is it where somebody's born and raised? Is it where a person resides at a given time? Or is it any place where an individual finds a high level of comfort, joy, and possibility? For Lorin Cohen, it's all three. This talented bassist-composer makes that fact plainly apparent on this, his leader debut. With Home, Cohen pays tribute to the city that fostered his musical growth and development through childhood (Chicago), the metropolis where he ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
So many great albums came in over the past four weeks, I wanted to wait until month's end to get them all in. Here are 12 gems... Charenee Wade—Offering: the Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson (Motema). Singer Charenee Wade brings just the right level of vocal passion, soulful seduction and sensitivity to songs by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson—a pianist, flutist and Scott-Heron's collaborator. Fabulous chill-groove arrangements frame Wade perfectly throughout. Doug Beavers—Titanes del Trombón (Artistshare). This Latin-jazz ...
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