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BLIND RACCOON
PAUL RISHELL & ANNIE RAINES/A Night in Woodstock: An off shoot of a docu about Gus Cannon, this live set from this Handy winning duo is rooted in the under the radar folk/blues/good time stuff that have kept them working for the last 16 years on something that seemed like it would never fly. A robust collection of songs for aging children come, this night in Woodstock is good time fun that will take your parents back to their college days. Long, long ago college days. Even when it’s upbeat, this is music to mellow out to.
1950 (Mojo Rodeo)
GO MEDIA
TONY MALABY CELLO TRIO/Warblepeck: Two of these players have been together before, but now they add a Chicago improv refugee to the mix and take it to new levels of experimental jazz that lies just at the edge of the borders. The leader on this date is a sax man, and he moves the chess pieces around the board in an avant garde/pomo way mixing the past and present with anything he feels serves the music at that moment. A right on outing for progressive ears, this is not for the timid, but it is intellectual jazz that grooves.
1574 (Songlines)
BUJO KEVIN JONES & Tenth World/Live: Even if you’ve worked with everyone from Whitney Houston to Randy Weston with stops along the way at the Isleys and others, it doesn’t mean you can’t be a hippie drummer at heart and go off on that ancient/future mode that rides the semi-spiritual tip while encouraging finding the inner funk. Hard to categorize set that mixes funk, space, exploration, fusion and all that stuff for progressive listeners who know who they are. A solid dose of next wave jazz.
20 (Motema)
JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
HOT CLUBE DE NORVEGE/Django Music: Here we are 30 years in with this crew of Django enthusiasts that have so much flying time together they can now fearlessly do their own variations on a theme and make it sound like the real thing. First coming together when gypsy jazz was sweeping European hipsters in the 70s, the music stayed long after the fad left town. Contemporizing Hot Club music is the best way to keep it going for younger tastes to discover and this group knows how to run at the head of the pack. A worthwhile alt.jazz outing that wide ranging tastes will enjoy while even purists will have to acknowledge that the legacy is in good hands.
219 (Hot Club)
M6
PAUL REDDICK/Sugar Bird: At this juncture, Reddick is a blues man largely in that’s the penumbra that fits him best and easiest. This date, which pairs him heavily with producer Colin Linden, is way out there, even by pomo standards, but not out there in an outré way, out there in a are you sure this is a blues record? way. Backed with a bunch of first call blues rockers and Americana pros, Reddick makes edgy blues based music for whitey that likes to get funky. Pretty rocky and raucous at times, this is the kind of set that adults who still want to buy music are looking for. Solid.
50 (Northern Blues)
TWO FOR THE SHOW MEDIA
JAZZ ARTS TRIO/Tribute: So, if you’re a real jazz piano junkie, this crew has undertaken to dissect original tracks and play them exactly as the original tracks were played. Common in classical disciplines, it’s something new for jazzbos and it kicks all those ‘in the tradition’ peeps in the teeth. Well played stuff that might not be everyone’s cup of tea, this is a sure thing for jazzbo geeks looking for piano jazz art.
124 (JRI)
Volume 31/Number 366
October 31, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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