Lê Quan Ninh’s music is a very personal and intimate. The French percussionist plays a bass drum laid horizontal on a stand, and uses it as a "sound table" for the v…
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This live CD matches veteran German improviser Frank Gratowski with Americans Jerome Bryerton (Chicago) and Damon Smith (San Francisco). The music here is more about mood a…
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06 Apr
Humidity by Matt Wilson
The opener, Thank You Billy Higgins, is a joyful, swinging celebration of the late drum great. Wilson plays a wonderful solo that dances. Swimming In Trees is…
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The Acoustic Jazz Quartet is a pleasantly swinging affair. The music mixes up easy swing, bossa-nova, ballads, and soft boppish tunes. The players are all high caliber. Sax…
This is an intriguing mix where trombonist Roswell Rudd traveled to Mali, Africa and combined his jazz trombone with traditional African music & musicians. His full, brassy…
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