ED DEGENARO Less Is Seldom More

Oct 2,2009
Ed DegenaroLess Is Seldom MoreStylistically varied doesn’t begin to describe the music on this disc. Opening with 1:32 of unaccompanied blues licking, followed by one of several compositions from Chris Taylor that calls to mind More...

RAZL Rotonova

Nov 2,2009
RAZL IS A SPANISH FUSIONISTA with keen chops and an equally keen sense of groove. Playing a Gibson ES-137 Custom through a Fender Blues Deville 4x10, and making good use of a Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere on several tracks, he More...

Henry Kaiser Solo Guitar 2009 Where Endless Meets Disappearing

Mar 9,2010
Bay Area creative music-meister Henry Kaiser recorded most of the improvised pieces on this solo guitar outing in a few hours back in May of 2009, using a very old school Lexicon Super Prime Time digital delay that had been More...

Kenny Lee Lewis New Vintage

Mar 1,2010
This CD shows a different persona of Steve Miller Band guitarist Kenny Lee Lewis, who plays tastefully on a mix of original and cover tunes that lands on the smoother side of the jazz tracks. Revealing his fondness for the More...

Rez Abbasi Things to Come

Mar 1,2010
Rez Abbasi is a significant contributor to both the New York jazz scene and the emerging global jazz-fusion movement, and this latest recording from the Pakistani-American guitarist represents another step forward in the More...

GIANNI GUARRACINO Gypsyland

Jan 25,2010
Besides being a virtuosic acoustic and electric player, Guarracino is a fine composer and arranger and has worked in that capacity with major artists such as Gino Paoli, Edoardo De Crescenzo, Sal Da Vinci, and legendary More...

VIDEO Allan Holdsworth Terry Bozzio Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto Improvising

Jan 19,2010
Allan Holdsworth, Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin, and Pat Mastelotto (HoBoLeMa) played six entirely improvised gigs at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, CA from January 8-10, 2010, as part of HoBoLeMa's U.S. tour. Thanks to Allan's manager More...

FRANK ZAPPA Oeuvre Easy

Dec 8,2009
MAKING YOUR WAY through the more than 70 titles in Frank Zappa’s catalog is a daunting prospect, but those recordings—representing a career that spanned nearly 44 years—contain some of the most outrageous music you will ever More...

DVD EXCERPT Jim Hall Live in 1964 with Art Farmer

Dec 3,2009
PART OF THE EXTRAORDINARY JAZZ ICONS series of DVD releases (now numbering more than 30 titles), this disc presents the Art Farmer Quartet performing live on BBC television in 1964. Backed by bassist Steve Swallow and drummer More...

DVD EXCERPT JIMMY SMITH Live in 1969 with Eddie McFadden

Dec 17,2009
HAMMOND B-3 VIRTUOSO JIMMY SMITH was one of the most accomplished jazz musicians of all time, and also the largest selling jazzbo during the 1960s.  Throughout this excellent performance, filmed in Paris on December 1st 1969, More...

Reviewed: Jermaine Landsberger, Getting’ Blazed

Apr 27,2009
GERMAN-BORN PIANIST AND ORGANIST JERMAINE LANDSBERGER was raised in a Sinti gypsy family, where he was steeped in the music of Django Reinhardt and the Roma gypsies.Originally a guitarist as well as a pianist, Landsberger More...

Reviewed: Charles Mingus Epitaph (DVD)

Apr 15,2009
CHARLES MINGUS WAS, OF COURSE, ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST COMPOSERS, and Epitaph is an epic work for jazz orchestra that remained incomplete and apparently abandoned at the time of Mingus’ death in 1979.  A huge collection of More...

Phil Keagy And Jeff Johnson Frio Suite

Apr 1,2010
Inspired by time spent at a lodge alongside the Frio River in Texas, this lovely music is introspective and pastoral in turns, somehow managing to sound both lush and delicate at the same time. Johnson’s pretty keyboard More...

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