04/01/08
KARI ON PRODUCTIONS
BILL HART/Subject to Change: When you’re a kick ass guitarist already, it takes balls to call Mike Stern and have him sit in with you, but Hart is up for it. An educator for the last 15 years, it’s time to let the dogs out and see how far the jazz goes. Moved as much by muse as by craft, things in Hart’s world are fair game for being turned into music. A nifty date that needs to be heard.
(BHM)
MICHAEL BLOOM MEDIA RELATIONS
DERRICK GARDNER/A Ride to the Other Side: Another in a series of jazz educators that has enough funk in him not to let all that academia go to his head. A mainstay of the Basie band as well as leading his own crew, the Jazz Prophets, for the last 17 years, this trumpet ace knows how to blow up a storm and tip the cap to the 60s funk we all know and love. A wild set that takes no prisoners, Gardner and crew are right on the money making top flight jazz that is hard to ignore. Hot stuff.
121 (Owl)
NEW EARTH
DEUTER/Spiritual Healing: The veteran stress buster is at it again but he’s fattened up and broadened his sound to make that casual Amazon shopper know he’s still in business and still planning to be at the fore of the healing music genre. With reiki and Santa Fe vistas dripping from the tracks, this tranquil take on adult chill goes the distance for anyone looking for massage or introspective music for those special and quiet times when only the right sounds will do. This is the fine side of new age and in the right hands throughout.
2806
KAMAL/Quiet Earth: Nix out the “Wayne’s World” associations with “Dream Weaver” and you get a new cat that pretty much fills the dream weaver bill, sonically. Coming from down under, he brings his own take on nature and the universe to his music and has a knack for sonic tromp de’lil where sounds shimmer and disappear only to turn up where and when you least expect them. Soundscapes that take on a life of their own, this is set for healers to take on to open some new aural vistas for their clients.
2808
TWO FOR THE SHOW MEDIA
TOBIAS GEBB & TRIO WEST/Upper West Side Story: These cats introduced themselves last fall with a debut Christmas album that got things rolling nicely. Here they are back with their first official release and they show themselves to be some dandy jazzbos in a real setting. Originals, jazz classics and Beatles come together in a date that works by these jazzy young men in their pork pie hats. Their sense of humor rolls through the music making this a buoyant, bouncy date that’s easy to come back to frequently. Hot stuff.
917 (Yummy House)
Volume 31/Number 153
April 1, 2008
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