Sean Wayland - Foodland (2016)

Label: Seed Music

Source: My Music Base

Genre: Jazz-Fusion/Soft-Rock

GAB's Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★

Reviewers have said "Music Pours easily from Sean Wayland" : limelight CD reviews

"Superman plays for keeps" : Sydney Morning Herald CD review

His was a musical family, his father's love of jazz enabled Sean to hear the music of Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and others as a young child. His father's mother Muriel Cohen was a concert pianist and the first Australian to perform Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'Oiseax publicly. To this day Sean is still entranced by Debussy and Messiaen. Perhaps intimidated by living up to his family's talent, Sean chose to study the violin as a child. His interest in the piano increased and as a teenager he fooled around on the instrument. The fact that he was already an accomplished fiddler and had a busy schedule playing with school orchestras etc meant that he had little time to practise piano. In his final year of high school Sean met jazz pianist John Bostock. www.johnbostockmusic.com

At the time in Australia it was difficult to find out about jazz and John hipped Sean to the music of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and John Coltrane. After school Sean spent a couple of years at University studying Electrical Engineering, but the seed had been sown and he came to realise that his calling in life was to be a musician. Sean studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1992 and 1993.

He has had numerous piano teachers including Mike Nock, Roger Frampton, Judy Bailey, Paul Macnamara in Australia. In New York he has studied with Barry Harris, Kevin Hayes , Geoff Keezer, George Colligan, Sam Yahel and Bruce Barth. While at the Conservatorium he received the Jack Chrostowski piano award. In 1993 he was a finalist in the National Jazz Piano Awards at the Wangaratta Festival. In 1999 Sean recieved a grant from the Australia Council to study jazz piano in New York which helped him to relocate there.

Sean has worked for a number of internationally renowned musicians including : David Binney, Madeliene Peyroux, Ingrid Jensen, Cornell Dupree, Jesse Harris, Sheryl Bailey, Gerald Hayes, Dale Barlow, Justine Clark, Phil Slater , Jackie Orsascky, Steve Hunter, James Muller and Steve Mckenna...

1. Fried Chicken Modulation 05:53
2. Help Me 04:22
3. The Princess and the Pad 04:59
4. What is it 05:03
5. Foodland 05:13
6. Softly Softly 03:53
7. Thunderbirds 03:56
8. Salad 03:43
9. Im Back 03:58
10.Angourie 06:29
11.Solo piano Brooklyn Recording 06:38
12.Gerry Lopez 03:13
13.Onwards and Sideways 04:35
14.Scum Valley Demo 01:10

Sean Wayland (piano, organ, keayboards)
Nate Wood (drums)
Sam Minaie (bass)
Ben Eunson (guitar)
Kate Kaye - Es (vocals)
James Muller - (guitar solo)
Tim Miller (guitar Solo) 

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Rok Zalokar Trio - Vol. 2 (2016)

Label: Self Released

Source: Rok Zalokar

Genre: Modern Creative

GAB's Rating: ★★★★☆

Rok Zalokar is a pianist and composer from Slovenia, currently living in Rotterdam, leading his trio, playing in experimental pop group Kukushai, playing and singing folk songs with Dvojina(Dual) and much much more!

In 2011 he started his own trio to play  original compositions and they soon gained a national recognition on the alternative scene. The songs that the trio was evolving trough frequent live shows were captured at one point of their existence and the result was debut trio album Vol. 1.(ZARS, 2o13). Since 2008 he was exploring the fusions of rock, jazz & ethno music with a quartet Vsemogocni Mlin, part of their diverse musical universe was released on Arbitrarij ( ZARS, 2012).

His work did not go unnoticed, besides playing some festivals,  Rok was awarded with Jazzon, award for best Slovenian jazz composition and with his trio he won the Jazzon live competition.In the March 2016 he was awarded with prestigious Erasmus jazz prize.

" My musical journey started in the early childhood, I was just one of those kids who really took it seriously with exploring parents' LP and cassette collection. There were all kinds of music, one of them that I was also able to see live a lot, was folk music, so this got me into playing the accordion. The piano and the guitar followed since there was so much different music that I wanted to experience. All those different "musics" along the way were the source of influence for me, and jazz, or more openly - improvised music, offers me a good way to express, connect and evolve those influences. Most of my today's work is oriented or derived from that and playing mostly original music feels like the best choice!"

1. Heart wants to be good 08:30
2. The alternative realities of my father 08:47
3. I hope, soon 05:06
4. I'm... 00:38
5. ...from... 04:41
6. ...old school 04:19
7. Same river 06:53
8. Prelude for towel, sheet and plastic bag 02:03
9. Spartacus 05:57
10.Homebound 09:25
   

Jože Cesar - drums
Dejan Hudoklin - bass
Rok Zalokar - keys 

Andy Fusco - Whirlwind (2016)

Label:

Source: Proper Music

Genre: Post-bop

GAB's Rating: ★★★★★

Veteran altoist Andy Fusco makes his belated SteepleChase leader debut here with this 2003 quintet recording, showcasing his intense and strong command of the instrument in the bebop tradition.

Growing up in New Jersey his interests were music and football. He first studied at the Syracuse University with football scholarship. After almost making it to NFL Fusco diverted his attention to music and landed the lead alto saxophone post at the Buddy Rich Big Band (1978-1983). He has performed and recorded with Gerry Mulligan, Mel Lewis and Walt Weiskopf, to mention a few. Fusco is also a dedicated educator currently a member of the Music Faculty of Kean University, New Jersey.

 "Andy Fusco is a player's player, a steely-edged bopper whose wide swaths suggest Bird as well as Trane." - Chuck Berg, JazzTimes

"We can be grateful for being exposed to yet another substantial jazz man who is on the rise and will hopefully be bringing us much more great music in the coming years." - Andrew Hovan, AllaboutJazz 

01. Acceptance
02. Count's The Thing
03. Waltz For Judy
04. Django
05. The Touch Of Your Lips
06. Whirlwind
07. How About Me
08. In Dominic's Time

ANDY FUSCO, alto sax
JOHN MOSCA, trombone
JOEL WEISKOPF, piano
DENNIS IRWIN, bass
BILLY DRUMMOND, drums

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Joel Weiskopf - Where Angels Fear To Tread (2016)

Label: 

Source: Proper Music

Genre: Hard-bop

GAB's Rating: ★★★★★

Award-winning pianist/composer Joel Weiskopf has long been established in the straightahead jazz scene in the USA and abroad. While he has released a number of leader albums, this is his debut leader outing on SteepleChase.

On this album Weiskopf brings out his time-tested repertoire (all originals plus Bill Evans' "Time Remembered") for a quintet date with his Syracuse compatriots, trumpeter Joe Magnarelli and saxophonist Andy Fusco, plus drumming sensation Jaimeo Brown.

"Joel Weiskopf is a serious jazz pianist with an individualistic style that is an amalgam of a great number of influences from American jazz to Brazilian samba." - C. Andrew Hovan 

01. Patience
02. Breakthrough
03. Came to Believe
04. Love Song
05. Elegy for D Sharpe
06. Lonely Evening
07. Where Angels Fear to Tread
08. Time Remembered
09. Free Fall

Joel Weiskopf (piano)

Joe Magnarelli (trumpet, flugelhorn)

Andy Fusco (alto and soprano saxophone)

Doug Weiss (bass)

Jaimeo Brown (drums) 

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Harold Danko - Lost In The Breeze (2016)

Label:

Source: Jazz Messengers

Genre: Piano Trio

GAB's Rating: ★★★★★

 Harold Danko is a perfect example of a veteran musician who might not be recognized by the average jazz listener but who is composing interesting originals and finding new approaches to others' songs. An underrated but consistently creative modern jazz pianist, Danko has been an asset to many sessions through the years. From the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Lee Konitz, or as the pianist of choice for Chet Baker.

Many of his CDs have been for the Danish label Steeplechase and fans will discover on our website easy access to the wealth of great music that Danko has recorded for the label since the mid-'90s, which features fresh interpretations of familiar songs along with deserving but lesser-known works. This trio session with Jay Anderson on bass, who steps in replacing Michael Formanek – who is currently involved in his on projects like the fascinating Ensemble Kolossus  - and Jeff Hirsfield on drums perform eight original compositions plus two Duke Jordan tunes, "Paula" and "If I Did - Would You?", which Duke performed on his classic 1974 SteepleChase album 'Flight to Denmark'. This is not a typical piano-bass-drums session, but one where all three players are actively engaged in interplay, rather than just a "follow the leader" date.

01. Fall Splits
02. Homing Instinct
03. Big Squeeze
04. Lost in the Breeeze
05. Salt ‘n’ Sugar
06. Stumble Crush
07. Fish Road
08. Paula
09. If I Did - Would You?
10. Singularity

HAROLD DANKO, piano
JAY ANDERSON, bass
JEFF HIRSFIELD. drums

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Playlist Summary for Tom Ossana / Dane Brewer – The Thin Edge – July 13, 2016 MST 7:00 to 9:00p.m.

http://www.kzmu.org/listen.m3u ~ Use this link to access the show online.

Simplicity (Storyville Records 2016) may or may not be the theme of this week's show, but it is the title of our first offering coming from Denmark's the Carsten Dahl Trio performing his "A Minor Mood for You." Lennart Ginman (bass) and Frands Rifbjerg (drums), fellow Danes, complete the piano trio. American drummer Tyshawn Sorey follows with an esoteric three minutes from his new PI Recordings The Inner Spectrum of Variables. Tyshawn's ensemble includes Cory Smythe: piano; Christopher Tordini: bass; Fung Chern Hwei: violin; Kyle Armburst: viola; Rubin Kodheli: violoncello. With an all-star cast, The Power Quintet gives us the hard bop "Look at Here" from their 2016 High Note High Art featuring luminaries Jeremy Pelt- Trumpet; Steve Nelson - vibes; Danny Grissett- piano; Ron Carter- Bass; Billy Drummond- drums. 

Markowitz/Andersson/Mogensen's In Transit (Hobby Horse Records 2016) follows with their musical interpretation of "Paris." The blind Danish bassist Richard Andersson is joined by countryman Anders Morgensen on drums and America's Phil Markowitz's piano. Clifford Brown & Max Roach's Study in Brown (Verve, 1954), a recording cited by The New York Times as "perhaps the definitive bop group until Mr. Brown's fatal automobile accident in 1956," closes this half-hour with Clifford's "Daahoud," featuring the leaders' trumpet and drums with Harold Land (t), Richie Powell (p) and George Morrow (b).

The first three cuts of the second-half revolve around the artistry of pianist Horace Parlan. From tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine1960's Blue Note Look Out! we find Horace as an important sideman and composer in "Return Engagement." George Tucker (b) and Al Harewood (d) provide the underpinning. Us Three, Horace's own 1960 Blue Note release, gives us his penned title track featuring the same rhythm section. US4, a group with one Swede, two Danes and an American, is a Stunt Records/Sundance Music celebration of Parlan in My Scandinavian Blues: A Tribute to Horace Parlan. 

The cover is Parlan's "Us Three." Although stricken with polio at an early age, Horace overcame all odds to become a distinctive jazz pianist; he moved to Denmark in 1972 when he was forty-one. Russian born Yelena Eckemoff, now living in America, performed as a classical pianist in the Soviet Union before embracing the jazz idiom. We'll hear her "Coffee & Thunderstorm" from her new L & H Productions' Leaving Everything Behind with Mark Feldman's violin, Bill Hart's drums and bassist Ben Street.

With trumpeter/pianist Chris Rogers' 2001 Art of Life Records' Voyage Home, just newly released, we get an ensemble that features legendary Michael Brecker in a performance  of Rogers' "Whit's End." Bassist/composer Matt Ulery follows with his new Woolgathering Records' Large - Festival with a 27-piece jazz orchestra featuring violin soloist, Zach Brock, in an unusual cover of Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks," a composition performed by dozens of jazz groups over the years. From the important voice of saxophonist JD Allen we'll hear his ideas about "Lightnin'" from his new Savant Records' Americana.

KZMU Music Director Serah turned us on to Miss Sophie Lee's cover of Robin/Shavers' "Undecided" from Lee's 2016 Traverse this Universe. The Heine Hansen Trio is next with a performance of Denmark's Hansen's "You're Gone and I Remain" from his new Storyville Records Signature. Judy Carmichael & Harry Allen's Can You Love Once More? (GAC Records 2016) follows with Carmichael and Allen's "An Almost Perfect Man." Along with vocalist Judy and Allen's tenor we have Mike Renzi's supportive piano. Roberta Piket contributes to this romantic half-hour with her "Saying Goodbye" from her Thirteenth Note Records' One for Marian/Celebrating Marian McPartland. Roberta's sidemen include Steve Wilson's alto, Harvie S on bass and others. Karrin Allyson gives us wonderfully sensual take on Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma" with lyrics added by Chris Caswell and retitled "Something Worth Waiting For" from her 2006 Concord Jazz Footprints. Bruce Barth's piano is featured. London/Decca's 1948The George Shearing Trio, one of early bop's important recordings, follows with "I Only Have Eyes for You," a popular love song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Concluding this titillating half-hour and the show comes from Jane Monheit's 2004 Sony Taking a Chance, an idea I would recommend to all you would-be-lovers out there. Jane and Michael Bublé have fun explaining exactly why "I Won't Dance." Nevertheless, in the Youtube video they cavort! 

Let's have some fun!

A special thanks to KZMU's Music Director, Serah Mead and the troops @ Republic of Jazz for their help putting the show together: Agenor (BRA), Chris do Brasil (BRA), Domi & Victor (SPA), GAB (BEL), JR (SPA), Javi (SPA), Juan/Jazzzz61 (SPA), Lira (BRA), Luisa, Menos Que un Perro (ARG), Marcos (BRA), Melokan (VEN), Raz (ISR) and Sonia (SPA). Also friend, Raul Boeira, the Brazilian based in Passo Fundo and Spain's Javier Carrete.

EDITION sign Danish pianist, keyboardist and composer Morten Schantz with his new heavyweight trio featuring Anton Eger and Marius Neset.

EDITION sign Danish pianist, keyboardist and 

composer Morten Schantz with his new heavyweight

 trio featuring Anton Eger and Marius Neset

We’re very pleased to announce that pianist, keyboardist and composer Morten Schantz is about to bring his hi-octane, heavyweight new album ‘Godspeed’ to Edition Records, the home of innovative European music.

A founder member of the award-winning pan-Scandinavian group JazzKamikaze, Schantz hits with a fantastic new band featuring long-term collaborators and original JazzKamikaze members Anton Eger (Norway/Sweden) on drums and Marius Neset (Norway) on saxophones.

With ‘Godspeed’ the trio idiosyncratically stamp their bold imprint on the music in typically dynamic and imperious fashion creating music full of euphoric riffs and blissful melodic hooks. Utilising an impressive array of electronics with all the predictable skill and virtuosity at their command this trio generate some of the most vibrant music to burst onto the European jazz scene in recent times.

Founder of Edition, Dave Stapleton said “On my first listen to Morten’s album, I was immediately drawn to the compelling and exciting nature of his music. Of course, the playing demanded the highest virtuosity and skill, but it was compositional power, intricacies and rhythmical complexities that commanded my attention. The Edition team is very excited to work with Morten and help him to build a wider international audience.”

Morten Schantz added “I can't wait to become part of the Edition family. I’ve worked with and followed many of the label’s artists and I’m excited to be part of their story and ambition and looking forward to becoming involved with an already world class group of musicians!”

Those familiar with the work of Eger and Neset (from Phronesis and Marius’ own groups) can expect the usual fireworks, but add the compositional talent and individual skills of Schantz and this trio assumes even greater prominence, bursting at the seams with energy and spirit. It won’t be long before Morten is demanding in his own right the kind of attention the likes of Anton and Marius have garnered in previous years. ‘Godspeed’ is Weather Report (in its original and most creative form) for the techno generation.

NEXT PERFORMANCE:

Morten Schantz will perform with Julian Argüelles and Anton Eger at Sounds of Denmark, a week-long Danish jazz festival at Pizza Express Soho, London on 16th September 2016.

For guest tickets please reply to this email or contact mike@editionrecords.com

Sergio Pereira - Swingando (2016) KARI-ON PRODUCTIONS

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Sergio Pereira - Swingando

Recorded in New York City and Brazil Featuring the finest in Brazilian Jazz

Helio Alves, Marcus Teixeira, Nilson Matta, Mauricio Zottarelli, 

Duduka da Fonseca and Itaiguara Brandao. 

Early Reviews

The songs will take you on a journey of various Brazilian moods: from sipping a ‘Caipirinha’ by the quiet sunset of Leblon Beach to the powerful rhythms of modern Jazz Bossa. It sparkles, glows, and sweeps you onto the dance floor. This is a perfect appetizer for the Brazil Olympics. -Grady Harp, Top 100 Amazon Writer

Some people just have the right touch. Breezy stuff that might finds it’s seeds in samba but doesn’t’ rely on it to make it’s point, this is jazzy, snazzy and delightfully high octane in it’s approach. Joyful playing that really spreads the good vibes, if this is nu Brazil, put us down for more. Well done. -Chris Spector, Midwest Record

BIOGRAPHY 

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sergio Pereira starting playing acoustic guitar (violao) at the age of 8 years old, influenced by his older brother who helped him play his first chords and the bossa-nova giants at the time such as: Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Joao Donato, Marcus Valle, and more, it was a time of personal discovery and what would be Pereira’s journey musically. Growing up in Rio in the 60’s and 70’s contributed tremendously to the energy, groove and rhythms reflected in his music today.

Moving to New York in the 80’s, exposed Pereira to an entirely different “scene.” It motivated the guitarist to not only continuing playing the guitar, but to further enhance his knowledge of the music and the instrument itself, which led him to studying with jazz greats including Chuck Wayne, Sal Salvador and Alex Adrian. Beginning in the early 90’s he has been travelling the world extensively, playing with different groups and at countless venues in many different countries in Europe, Africa and beyond.

In the United States, he has shared music with Gil Goldsten, Cidinho Teixeira, Leco Reis, Luis Ebert, Claudia Villela, Adriano Santos, Helio Alves, Nilson Matta, Mauricio Zottarelli, Lonnie Plaxico, Duduka da Fonseca, Olivia Foschi, Alex Sipiagin, just to name a few. For over 20 years Pereira has been a member of the United Nations Jazz band for which has afforded him the opportunity to perform in various high profile venues throughout New York City.

Pereira also spent time living in The Netherlands from 2003 until 2011, he played with some of top local musicians including Ferial Karamat and Arno Kolenbrander in which he arranged and recorded some of his music as well as participated in various radio programmes in Amsterdam. Together with other friend/musicians he founded the jazz/Brazilian/funk band named “Malandros”.

Again furthering his constant thirst to learn and grow, he began studying guitar with Marcus Teixeira in Sao Paulo, which further broadened his understanding of harmony, improvisation and technique required to be improve his skills as a composer, songwriter, arranger and guitarist.

Music has been his passion from an early age, and now he is able to express his ideas and vision with his first album entitled Swingando. Recorded in New York City and Brazil, the album includes some of the top musicians in Brazilian jazz today, such as Helio Alves, Marcus Teixeira, Nilson Matta, Mauricio Zottarelli, Duduka da Fonseca and Itaiguara Brandao. Swingando brings all of the emotions, energy and dynamics of growing up in Rio and keeping deeply in touch with his culture, along with his life’s journey as a traveling and performing musician, while keeping his foot firmly in the Brazilian tradition, a delightfully authentic listen with a cavalcade of Brazilian heavyweights.

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Music has been his passion from an early age, and now he is able to express his ideas and vision with his first album entitled Swingando. Recorded in New York City and Brazil, the album includes some of the top musicians in Brazilian jazz today, such as Helio Alves, Marcus Teixeira, Nilson Matta, Mauricio Zottarelli, Duduka da Fonseca and Itaiguara Brandao. Swingando brings all of the emotions, energy and dynamics of growing up in Rio and keeping deeply in touch with his culture, along with his life’s journey as a traveling and performing musician, while keeping his foot firmly in the Brazilian tradition, a delightfully authentic listen with a cavalcade of Brazilian heavyweights.

Track Time

1. Chega Ai 5:42

2. Let It Out 6:14

3. My Girls 6:21

4. Leblon 6:38

5. Swingando 5:19

6. Ela 3:34

7. Spring 5:51

All Songs Written by Sergio Pereira

Player and instrument:

Sergio Pereira (acoustic and electric guitar, voice)

Helio Alves (piano)

Nilson Matta (bass)

Mauricio Zottarelli (drums)

Duduka Da Fonseca (drums)

Marcus Teixeira (guitar)

Itaiguara Brandao (bass)

Claudia Villela (voice)

Olivia Foschi (voice)

Candida Borges (voice)

Osmario Marinho (drums)

Felipe Fidelis (bass)

Felipe Silveira (keyboard)

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Eric Hargett Trio - Steppin' Up (2016)

Source & Label: 

Genre: Hard-bop

GAB's Rating: ★★★★★

Steppin' Up features Eric Hargett and his baritone sax truly stepping out

There's certainly something about the baritone sax that gets your attention. The sounds are commanding; they grab and don't let go. They can throttle. They can lurk. They can dominate the soundscape. In the right hands, it's devastating. Eric Hargett has just those hands.

On Steppin' Up, Hargett's remarkable debut as a bandleader, the upstart leader manages to avoid opening night jitters, thanks to a diverse and tasty ten-spot of tunes and the incredible support of Joey DeFrancesco on the B3 and piano, and drummer Gerry Gibbs. Of course, when you've got that kind of seasoned experience behind you, one can only imagine how it'd soothe the nerves.

Right out of the gate, Hargett, DeFrancesco and Gibbs really bring it. There's the raw and sizzling funk of the title track that kicks things off. There's the hard bop of "Woody's Dream, " which starts in high gear and then shifts into overdrive, led by Hargett's charging bari, and the nifty interplay of his rhythm-mates lifting things to a higher elevation. "Baretta" is an homage to '70s TV theme song funk, with Hargett doing some seriously heavy lifting. There is even a handful of tunes—"West, " "Hackensack, " and "Pacific Voyage, " in particular—in which Hargett puts down the bari and picks up the tenor, with excellent results.

On the flip side (not literally), Hargett is not averse to taking it down a notch, smoothing the edges, as he does on his super-tender cover of "You Don't Know What Love Is, " with the B3 laying down a comfortable bed of chord changes and Gibbs urging Hargett with nothing more than sexy brushes. The result is heart-felt, deeply moving … and just the kind of break listeners need in order to jump back into the dirty bari that Hargett serves up for much of the session. The same poignance emerges on the lovely "Myra." Lucky girl, that Myra, to have such a sweet ode written to her. But lest you start thinking Hargett is hopelessly romantic, check out the closer, "Sunday Fog, " a nasty, virtuosic, locomotive of a piece that will leave you breathless and satisfied.

Hargett hails from Houston, got schooled in Austin, and has since moved to LA. He met up with Gibbs after an invite to play in his Thrasher Big Band back in 2006. Hargett later teamed up with Gibbs' father, the vibist and composer Terry Gibbs, in the master's own Terry Gibbs Dream Band. He has clearly gained some savvy and some sophistication along the way, and it shows up grandly on Steppin' Up. From ballads to burning funk, Hargett proves he can do it all, and this, his first real crack at leadership. He's had some good apprenticeships during his brief career thus far, and he's got A-list support to bring it all home, which is why Steppin' Up is an incredible step in the right direction.

 

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