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The NYChillharmonic: Mean
by Mike Jurkovic
Having toured across five continents, you have to figure that no matter what musical element dares to share physical space within Brooklyn keyboard/vocalist Sara McDonald's brain-bending flight path, it is going to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and turned it into something forceful. Something fierce. Something startlingly her own. Leader of the eighteen piece, (sometimes twenty, sometimes more or less), orchestral-punk-prog-jazz-rock the NYChillharmonic, McDonald unveils the utterly invigorating “Mean," a churning, sawing, simmering shard of ...
read moreSaxophonist Nathan Woodward Delivers Scorching Performance On "A Quartet Session"
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Lauren Rogers
Jazz is often caught in peak form when there are no frills, no studio glaze. The sign of a true musician is one who can excel minus the gimmicks and production makeup. Recorded live with only one microphone in a crowded house, Nathan Woodward’s A Quartet Session (Live from Martin Hall) is jazz served raw, the way it should be. The setting invigorates Woodward, a promising young saxophonist. Although only two tracks, A Quartet Session doesn’t feel lacking of any ...
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