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Trio of Oz - Omar Hakim & Rachel Z

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Jeremy Monteiro/Isaac Holt/Eldee Young: Blues for the Saxophone Club
Earl "Fatha" Hines: Honor Thy Fatha
 

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Wolfert Brederode

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Second album from Dutch pianist Brederode and his international band, with clarinettist Puntin and drummer Rohrer from Switzerland, and Norwegian bassist Eilertsen. The music builds upon the achievements of 2006’s “Currents”, a recording that received high critical acclaim: “What is marvellous about this music [said All About Jazz] is that it combines a moody airiness with intellectual rigor. The romantic emotionality that paints beautiful images of sound has sinews of steel. It simultaneously invites the listener with its surface beauty, only to create bonds that hold on strongly as it weaves its spell.” Brederode’s is music that flows, drawing influences from both the jazz and the classical traditions. It suggests more than it states, and is the more powerful for its restraint.
This is good stuff!
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Jeff Lorber Fusion- Wizard Island on vinyl.

This is one of my favorite jazz/funk fusion albums and it deserved much more recognition than it got, even with it reaching #1 on the jazz charts. It features Lorber doing his usual tremendous work on the keyboards, a tight and dynamic rhythm section of Danny Wilson on bass and Dennis Bradford on drums, and a young Kenny Gorelick, aka Kenny G, on saxophones and flute (before he went all elevator music on us). There is not a dud on the entire album. I particularly like "Reflections," which features Gorelick's sax riffs riding perfectly on top of Lorber's synthesizer work. This is the best I've heard either Lorber or Gorelick sound, and it is the best album from JLF. These guys could have been the successors to Weather Report instead of the Yellowjackets had they stayed together. Alas...
 
critic Michael G. Nastos wrote of the album: "A duet recording between pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall is one that should retain high expectations to match melodic and harmonic intimacies with brilliant spontaneous musicianship. Where this recording delivers that supposition is in the details and intricacy with which Evans and Hall work, guided by simple framings of standard songs made into personal statements that include no small amounts of innovation... At only 32 and a half minutes, it's disappointing there are no bonus tracks and/or additional material for a CD-length reissue, but Intermodulation still remains a precious set of music from these two great modern jazz musicians
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Avant-garde (progressive) jazz.



It is well recorded; the piano (keyboards), the acoustic bass, the guitars (synths), and the drums (percussion, vibes) all sound full, clear, and lively.
...Just like @ a live jazz venue. :cool:

These guys have been around the pro circle. ...On the Heads Up International record label (a division of Concord Jazz). ...Used to be a distribution of Telarc.
Anyway the sound quality and the music at this very moment is rocking my boat just fine and peacefully and comfortably (in my soul like licorice at the circus on a stick and feeling numb on cocaine and heroin).
 
Style of Jazz I grew up with (in my teens). ...Some.



* Recorded in Havana, Cuba. Also from the Concord Music Group (Montuno Prod.) ...And comes with a DVD.
It's good, of course it's good, it's jazz ♪ the way I like it in the now.
 
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