Fusion - CD Reviews (474)
This 2-DVD offering highlights guitar god, David Fiuczynski (The Fuse) and his energetic, "Screaming Headless Torsos," unit performing live in New York (disc one) and Pa…
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Three guys and a lot of creative noise is the best way to describe Alcibiades Jones (Pronounced Al-suh-by-dees). After giving their new CD Refraction Mirage sev…
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Steve Howe is the master of diversity on the six-string. With his new CD he covers the entire musical Spectrum and beyond. The entire album is instrumental and …
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Coffee is a big part of our culture as Americans and the genre of jazz seems to have an inexplicable link to the beverage. Stephanie Sante gives you a taste of many blen…
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Mike Di Lorenzo plays the ivory keys with the passion and grace of modern day jazz magic man. He lets his fingers do the walking and all the talking on a beautiful instrume…
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A lot of different flowers bloom in Jeff Coffin's garden...and not a weed among them. This CD is a collection of different styles and features a lot of different personnel …
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Looking for a blues guitarist in the tradition of Jimi Hendrix? Eddie Turner is probably a good bet! Turner was born in Cuba, raised in Chicago and educated in Color…
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Mike Di Lorenzo plays the ivory keys with the passion and grace of modern day jazz magic man. He lets his fingers do the walking and all the talking on a beautiful instrume…
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Live! (Tone Center) is guitarist Scott Henderson’s newest album with his newly formed blues band. The blues/fusion guitarist whose work with Tribal Tech and collabor…
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I have enjoyed listening to this album so much that I would rather continue the listening process than to write about it. I know it does not sound like something a journali…
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I have discovered a drummer that will knock your socks off, his name is Carl Hupp. He has an incredible CD/DVD set entitled Hyper Statue, recently released to kick o…
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Middletown, Ohio, native Emmett North Jr. shares a bit of his music with his band The Gallery of Groove."The Groove" contains only three songs, but the tracks are…
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Recorded over several days during the Summer Jazz on the Streets in London, England in July of 2003, Nima & Merge’s Live in London is dedicated to their loved o…
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Frank Gambale has a tremendous effort with this album. By his side is the astounding Billy Cobham on drums, and two very admirable bassists: Ric Fierabracci and Steve Bi…
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You have to love men like Paul Thomas Yoder. He goes to work every day just like you and me so he can support his other career, music. When I read about him and found th…
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In the realm of smooth jazz ideology, the lines connecting the dots of where one style of music begins and the other drops off are not clearly defined. That is due in pa…
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There’s an early period of musical development for most jazz and rock players where things start to come together. They start making sense. You’re not making great (or even…
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Sax-and-harmonica-player Jessie Allen Cooper has crafted some highly melodic and pleasurable jazzy instrumental music on his new CD, SOUND TRAVELS.This is his sixth albu…
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Matt Garrison and I have been friends since our days back at the Berklee College of Music in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Since then Matt has become one the foremost expon…
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Outward Bound, one of Philadelphia’s newest ensembles headed by saxophonist Andrew Hanna, released the epic narrative piece Prophecies of War in April 2004. Proph…
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