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31 Days Of Album Reviews #22: Jason Parker Quartet, “No More, No Less”
JASON PARKER QUARTET No More, No Less (BrokenTime) Trumpeter Jason Parker blogs at oneworkingmusician.com, and we follow each other on Twitter. He sent me this CD expressly to have it included in the...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #23: Dan Pratt Organ Quartet, “Toe The Line”
DAN PRATT ORGAN QUARTET Toe the Line (Posi-Tone) Tenor saxophonist Dan Pratt has been leading this group for close to a decade; its debut CD, Springloaded, was released in 2003. Toe the Line is the...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #24: Pete Robbins, “siLENT Z Live”
PETE ROBBINS siLENT Z Live (Hate Laugh Music) Those who’ve been paying attention to the most recent skirmishes in the “jazz wars” may be aware that trombonist Jason Marsalis has voiced opposition to...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #25: Bernardo Sassetti Trio, “Motion”
BERNARDO SASSETTI TRIO Motion (Clean Feed) This album took a while to win me over, and it never fully succeeded. Its first five or six tracks were, frankly, a little boring in that maddening way that...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #26: Trichotomy, “Variations”
TRICHOTOMY Variations (Naim) For some reason, this group operates under the name Misinterprotato in its native Australia; this album came out there in 2008 under that billing. So if you’re a close...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #27: Vinson Valega, “Biophilia”
THE VINSON VALEGA GROUP Biophilia (Consilience) This is the fourth album by drummer/bandleader Vinson Valega, and the first one I’ve heard. It’s a sextet session featuring three horns (alto saxophonist...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #28: David Weiss, “Snuck In”
DAVID WEISS AND POINT OF DEPARTURE Snuck In (Sunnyside) If you name your band after one of pianist Andrew Hill’s best albums, you better come out swinging. This quintet (which has no pianist, by the...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #29: Pharez Whitted, “Transient Journey”
PHAREZ WHITTED Transient Journey (Owl Studios) Pharez Whitted is a Chicago-based trumpeter, teacher and bandleader who’s made three albums of his own (including this one) since 1994, and has appeared...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #30: Dan Willis & Velvet Gentlemen, “The Satie Project”
DAN WILLIS AND VELVET GENTLEMEN The Satie Project (Daywood Drive) Dan Willis is a New York-based multi-reedist. This disc consists entirely of his reinterpretations of music by French composer Erik...
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31 Days Of Album Reviews #31: Alper Yilmaz, “Over The Clouds”
ALPER YILMAZ Over the Clouds (Kayique) Turkish bassist Alper Yilmaz follows up his 2007 debut as a leader (which I haven’t heard) with this relatively cranked-up fusion session. In addition to bass, he...
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