As you’ll have noticed the site’s been very erratically updated in the past year. Thought I’d bring the story up to date with a short post. — Since late January I’ve been working as a proofreader for Bowne, a large (worldwide) financial publisher that has several major sites in Toronto. It’s been an up-and-down but [...]
Jack Wright, Tom Djll, Bhob Rainey, Tim Feeney
Road Signs
Soul on Rice Prods.
Sign 6 / Road / Sign 7 (49:20)
Wright, saxes (ss, as?); Djll, tpt; on 1, 3: Rainey, ss; on 2: Feeney, perc, elec. Tracks 1 and 3: Boston, Sep 2002; track 2: Rochester, June 2005.
West Coast trumpeter Tom Djll is still perhaps better known [...]
David Borgo
Ubuntu
Cadence Jazz Records CJR 1181
This one’s a surprise: usually when American jazz musicians turn to Africa for inspiration, they attempt to bring together jazz and indigenous African musics; it’s much rarer to hear them explore South Africa’s own rich jazz heritage. Saxophonist David Borgo recalls in his liner notes the life-changing effect an Abdullah [...]
Barry Guy New Orchestra
Oort-Entropy
Intakt CD 101
Much of the pleasure of bassist/composer Barry Guy’s writing for the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, the ensemble which he led from the early 1970s to 1998, was in hearing him create structures out of the juxtaposition of disparate musical personalities, from the austere Radu Malfatti to the fiery Trevor [...]
Instinctual Eye (Kevin Norton, Frode Gjerstad, Nick Stephens)
Born in Brooklyn
Barking Hoop BKH-010
Billy Stein
Hybrids
Barking Hoop BKH-011
Born in Brooklyn, one of two new trio releases from drummer/percussionist Kevin Norton’s Barking Hoop label, marks the debut of his transatlantic project Instinctual Eye. His partners are Norwegian clarinettist/saxophonist Frode Gjerstad and UK bassist Nick Stephens, veterans of [...]
Tom Stewart
First Time Over
(no label)
Wintergreen / First Time Over / Maybe Next Time / Sneaky Pete / Spare Changes / Second Hand Knowledge / Fourth Avenue Sharp / Anniversaries / Tribute / Strike 3 / Gas Bag / Last Call (still no answer) (57:25)
Stewart, g; Mark Neuenschwander, b; Sava Boyadjiev, d. Tampa, FL, no date [...]
Joe Magnarelli
Hoop Dreams
Criss Cross Criss 1280
Genét / Division Street / Paris in the Spring / Ask Me Now / Hoop Dreams / I Mean You / Old Folks / Dance Only with Me / Monk’s Mood / Barretto’s Beat (66:05)
Magnarelli, tpt, flgh; Gary Versace, p; Paul Gill, b; Tony Reedus, d; on 3–5, 9, 10: [...]
Ben Winkelman
Stomps Pieces & Variations
Jazzhead HEAD057
Trio Piece in Seconds and Thirds / Bananeiro / Maxine’s Stomp / Scumbag Blues / I Sold You and You Sold Me / No Tengo Un Puto Duro / The Tomasa Variations / Pearls Before Swine / The Game with Mirrors / Study in Seconds and Thirds / The Deadly [...]