Album review: ' augmented reality ' by Roy Assaf, Itzik and Jorge Roeder Ronen "

Pianist Roy Assaf, drummer Ronen Itzik and bassist Jorge Roeder form Augmented Reality and has just released their first album, augmented reality:

"Whether an Assaf original as"Ohel Israel", the piece of Benny Carter"Only Trust Your Heart", or the song of Richie Beirach"Start", each room caused by a melody that lends itself well to be sung or whistled.". Dropping of angularity, Assaf, Itzik and Roeder mine for moods, reservation of intensity for moments of choice..."Read more"

Catch the trio Tuesday May 24 Cornelia Street Caf? in Manhattan for their CD release party. Sets are 8: 30 p.m. and 10: 00 p.m. Cornela Street Caf? is low, so call ahead for reservations.

[Full disclosure: Ronen Itzik is a friend to me and sometimes share us the scene, but is not impair my ability to listen to his music objectively]

Image courtesy of Daywood Drive Records

VINCE, Vaillant (Sofia, May 23, 2011)

I confess that my title is a play on the comic strip character.? But it has a more serious meaning.

With Basie, Goodman, Lombardo, Ellington and others have disappeared, how many people have led a band - not only stirred a stick - more than thirty-five years?? Vince Giordano began his career as a conductor in 1975.? I would not have believed it myself, but Dan Levinson provided this fact last Monday night to Sofia and I hope Dan in the matter.

It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a hero to support an eleven hot musicians so that the length of time.? Hail, Vince!

Vince and Nighthawks hold court - in a more largely affectionately swinging way - to the Cache Club in Ristorante in Sofia (i.e. a flock of steps down, near the tuba at 211 West 46th Street, New York City).

Monday night, was particularly prestigious.? In the audience were George Avakian, Frank Driggs, Leo McConville, Jr. and his wife Linda, Eric Elder, and his significant other drowned, Peter Mintun, Rich Conaty and many others.

Wonderful dancers!? Among them: Sam Huang, Michelle deCastro, Nina Galicheva, Tina Micic, Kathy Stokes, Marty Visconti, Eric Schlesinger, Celia Gianfresco, Jerry Feldman, Carolina Rueda, Eli Charne...

And the band!? Vince, course, vocals, bass, low saxophone and tuba; Mike Ponella and Randy Reinhart on trumpet / cornet. Jim Fryer on trombone. Dan Levinson, Dan Block and Mark Lopeman, reeds. Peter Yarin, piano; Andy Stein violin and baritone saxophone; Ken Salvo, banjo / guitar; Arnie Kinsella, battery.

I was sitting (with the permission of the graceful McConvilles) perpendicular to the Nighthawks table, sort of viewers JAZZ lives will immediately notice the different point of view on the half dozen videos that follow.

Here's IMAGINATION, a "modernist" piece by saxophonist / arranger and composer Joseph "fud" Livingston:

One of the two sessions of jam the evening - it on me BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE gives to.? Admire the dancers spinning approximately three minutes! :

Vince loves stir "new" arrangements for nightjars, which - being in-depth professional - read through them on the first try.? This is a certain change of pace of SWEETIE - a chart of 1920 of a modest promise of fidelity, I will be with you in APPLE BLOSSOM time - with Dan block shown on flute:

There is only nice?

Something much more addition - a romp to BORNEO, where bamboo babies are swaying to the music of Nighthawks.? Echoes of Bix, Tram, and Bill Challis:

And two for Louis, with Mike Ponella, taking solos.? One is BLUE TURNING GREY on you, a pretty Fats Waller mock-lament (Louis recorded in 1931 and then - a beautiful slow tempo - almost a quarter of a century later, a date of registration supervised by our George Avakian, in the audience Monday):

Close this post with a romping BEAU KOO JACK (translated: "lots of money!") originally recorded by Louis with Earl Hines and Don Redman, organizing and playing alto - later Hines took for his own group of Victor and had its section of trumpet play swirling solo of Louis' in unison:

Wishing all my JAZZ live readers good health, continued to happiness, beau koo jack and the ability to get in Sofia of a Monday or Tuesday night to see nightjars and the dancers in person!? (This position is for professors Sammut and Redmile, but you can join in the chorus).

HAZMAT Modine: Cicada - review

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New Yorker Wade Schuman lack of musical ambition. His nine musicians encompasses the history of the America of the New Orleans blues , funk and jazzand adds everything that influences the adjustment; reggae, African and the countries of this second LP. A strong brass section is at the core of their sound (tuba included), but Schuman moan chromatic harmonica is also important along with his swaggering vocals. Singer Natalie Merchant help on the "Child of a Blind Man" poetics and the Kronos Quartet add dead "crow" Chamber strings, but brass parade does most of the work on a surprising, sometimes dazzling record.

Jason Parker Quartet - five leaves left

The British end-songwriter Nick drake is having something of a resurgence of jazz which now extends to this album well executed by trumpet player Jason parkerand, recently, blow by the pianist Brad Mehldau "River Man" coverage. Playing with Parker on this album is the piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, of Vonne Lewis on drums and special guests Michele Khazak vocals Josh Rawlings and Cynthia Mullis saxophone tenor and flute. Five leaves is a solid if this disc a little melancholic and song is well done, with the keys on saxophone and flute, giving the procedure an Astral Weeks air to it. The whole piece is always excellent and although Parker is clearly the leader, it does not go, keeping his solos concise, allowing the band to interpret the songs in their own way. Song of haunting and slightly wracked of Michele Khazak is a key to the success of the album, especially on early tracks, "Time has told Me" and "River Man." The latter is really the centerpiece, with the song languorous weaving in and out of the music that developed in a fine improvisation. Instrumental tracks towards the end of the album are very tight and work of Drake how there is a place of performance is the jazz parameter. Five Leaves Left took time to enter, but when he clicked for me, music hit with the realization that I listened to great songs well interpreted by excellent game. I need to investigate Nick Drake, which I was not familiar with accepting it as a figure in the fringe of the Joe Boyd book. Five leaves left - Bandcamp

Birth of the Cool

2008 edition of the Jazz icon's classic album complete with 11 bonus tracks. Birth Of The Cool was originally released in 1949 and remains one of the best loved Jazz albums of all-time. On the album, Miles is joined by Kai Winding, Junior Collins, Bill Barber, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Haig, Joe Shulman and Max Roach. The bonus tracks on this edition were recorded live during various radio broadcasts. Jazz Track.

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Austin Peralta - endless planets

Young Los Angeles pianist combines modern jazz tradition on her third album. Daniel Spicer 2011-02-24

There is much to say about juvenile energy, but how far can it you get in life? Austin Peralta pianist seems to have a good crack to discover.

20 Years Los Angeles resident (and son of the original legend of skateboarding Stacy) are a former child prodigy who released his first CD, Maiden Voyage (date of the trio with Ron Carter on bass) in 2006 at the age of 15; monitoring, Mantra, followed a few months later (this time above a quintet with bassist Buster Williams veteran). This third album - her first self-produced effort and the first to include all original documents - is published on Brainfeeder, the label run by the musician of portable California Flying Lotus, alias Steven Ellison, grandnephew of John Coltrane himself immortal. Thus, it may wait until it is album coming of age, showing a new maturity, right? Well, Yes and no.

Tunes such as Capricorn and underwater mountain Odyssey are jazz big, noisy, contemporary, acoustic - at heart, Brad Mehldau horns and an injection of rock 'n' roll energy. Drummer Zach Harmon and bassist Hamilton price work a bullish momentum, crash- and even throughout the ballad Ode to love jogging with a restless reader (Note to Harmon: subtlety does not appear to use only brushes). Electronica artist Strangeloop provides discrete concatenation between tracks and the last piece, Epilogue: Renaissance bubbles, is an ambient collaboration largely insignificant with UK trip-hoppers The Cinematic Orchestra and vocalist Heidi Vogel. Yet, despite these nods to modernity, deep down, this is a very old album. Most of the tunes keep about a conventional head-solo-head structure, while Algiers - with an Arabian lilt to his hook low and good taste tablas - even has a somewhat naive stab, the kind of composition jazz "exotic" popularized by the air as Ole Coltrane, the 1960s at the beginning.

But the way most irresistible Interlude - less than two minutes of swinging deeply hard bop that perfectly mixes energy Saracens of Peralta with his respect for the past. Here is hoping that this is a preview of things to come.

Twelves - calculator

Twelves album of the Trio 2008 here comes the Woodman With His fragmented Soul, announced the arrival of a new promising jazz unit, led by bassist Riaan Vosloo and two featuring the biggest frappeurs of the revival of the 21st century Brit-jazz : saxophonist ex-latrines Mark Hanslip and fraud drummer Tim Giles. Has stimulated a quartet with the addition of guitarist Rob Updegraff, Twelves deliver on that promise - and then some.

As on the previous album, the base for adding Machine model is the kind of swinging free-bop illustrated on the album of 2005 quartet bassist of U.S. William Parker, his unit. As Parker, playing the Vosloo holds a warm throb that manages to inject a hint of soul even abstractions more fractured. Girls Party whips up to a loose yet propulsive groove, step unlike Felon Brown of Miles Davis; Although Kerfuffle begins with a short, head Parade before sliding down into a lope tough, bass and drums to be robust closely as gnarled roots. Giles - certainly one of the most talented batsmen of his generation - is on form flaming, overall spoil rhythmic games and on tracks like the opening of many splendor thing: part 1, rolling of time with the muscular audacity of a young Tony Williams.

In the context of this strong rhythmic section, two melodic voices react with surprising, almost counter-intuitive touch lightness. Hanslip quickly became one of the most original voices on the London improv scene - as recently illustrated on his album in duo with percussionist Javier Carmona, DosaDos. Here, he carefully avoids macho assignment or post-Ayler overstating, sticking instead to a clear, straight lyricism, largely the range average Horn of occupation with a stoic, cool maturity. This is an approach that leaves room for Updegraff explore slightly heavier and more extended techniques on electric guitar, echoes of Hendrix him feedback control atmospheric forth with some of the echo-tired of the many underestimated British guitarist Ray Russell.

All this adds to a yet exploratory tight set that carefully balance the brains and brawn. Here is hoping that this is not a One Shot deal of this impressive quartet again.