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BLIND RACCOON
DAVIS COEN/Blues Lights for Yours and Mine: The still youngish bluesman mixes some Nawlins into his stew and the gumbo certainly comes across with the right spice for a white boy that wants to be taken seriously. With a cat like Tab Benoit being the standard bearer for the genre right now, he’s got some cats ready to stop bringing up the rear anytime he’s done making his statements. Coming from a real bluesy soul, Coen knows the roadhouse well and knows how to make that sound work for blues fans that came in through the side door and are growing out of their frat boy stage.
1003 (Soundview)
CREATIVE SERVICE COMPANY
TIMOTHY COOPER/Light on the Water: For a guy whose day job is to point out the ills of the world (get paid to be a malcontent?), Cooper comes in with a light, breezy solo new age piano set that seems just proper to have shown up on the first day of summer. A generously stocked collection of miniature piano pieces, the improvs that propel this set can’t possibly come anywhere but from the heart. It might be instrumental music, but there’s something about it that also makes you think.
(New Piano Age Music)
JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
ROBIN McKELLE/Modern Antique: Are McKelle’s records so fun sounding because her look throws off a Rita Rudner vibe? She aims to be a big band vocalist but mixes up the song list with Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra” and “Go to Hell” as well as healthy doses of her own puckishness that just makes you smile. Already an NPR star, a ghetto she deserves to break out of since there a wide world out there that doesn’t get to appreciate her that way, this is just a damn fun, damn fine set that that you just can’t quite pigeon hole since she’s really a spunky, pomo genre splicer at heart. If you’re too young to get your grandpa’s big band groove on but you dig the sound and vibe, this femme non-fatale might just be the running mate you’ve been looking for.
(Cheap Lullaby)
MASSIVE MUSIC
BRIAN ROLLAND/The Tide’s In: The deconstruction of the record biz has send guitar men like Rolland scurrying to the corners where the resourcefulness that carries their music has to carry everything else. This cat wears it well, making the most of the afforded autonomy on all fronts. An easy, breezy guitar date that takes a nice trip around the horn but never gives any of the various modes a short shrift, it’s certainly the kind of world jazz that goes so well with summer, all year long. Not smooth jazz and just what the genre needs to let the good times roll.
2007-01 (On the Full Moon)
TWO FOR THE SHOW MEDIA
EMILIO SOLLA/Conversas (Al Lado del Agua): If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to set those world beat ears in the direction of this Argentinean piano man that’s on his fifth set as a leader. Flexing local muscles that are born in the wake of Piazzolla with a of local jazz and folk music bred into the stew, anyone looking for something new and different with something to say will find this a ready treat and find. The uninitiated will happily call this tango/jazz and enjoy the vibe that flows freely from a sure hand. Check it out.
(Fresh Sound)
Volume 31/Number 233
June 20, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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