Posts Tagged ‘Adventure Music’
Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg (Adventure Music – 2010)
It is no longer the necessity to use the term Third Stream that Gunther Schuller “invented” to describe the music created by the Modern Jazz Quartet in the 50’s, which was a confluence of the European Classical t...
Lucía Pulido: Time Darkened by Sorrow, Brightened By Passion
The sky darkens, Lorca-like and a primordial wail rips through it. “Ai…leh leh leh.../No sé qué tendrá mi pecho/no sé qué tendrá mi pecho…/que mi voz alevanta,” she sings as she cries… “I don’t know what’s...
Hamilton de Holanda – Brasilianos 2 (Adventure Music – 2010)
The mandolin has barely evolved since its incarnation as a lute in Italy over three hundred years ago. A few more strings may have been added, so that there is now a ten-stringed version; tuning of these strings may have become...
Ricardo Silveira – Até Amanhã (Adventure Music – 2010)
The music of guitarist Ricardo Silveira flows—especially on Até Amanhã/'Til Tomorrow--flows like an interminable river into the proverbial ocean of sound where a world of music mixes and mingles. Yet the idea that...
Mario Adnet & Phillippe Baden Powell – AfroSambaJazz
Truth is told: Had the great Billy Strayhorn been even mildly interested in courting recognition for his contribution to Duke Ellington's music, he would have occupied a much more rarified place in the pantheon of composers and...
Tom Lellis & the Metropole Orch. – Skylark (Adventure Music 2009)
On Skylark, Tom Lellis celebrates the grand age of singers and song. This was probably not his intention at all, but fortunately, it also turned out that way. Lellis is a fine singer, fashioned from quite the classic m...
Daniel Santiago – Metropole (Adventure Music 2009)
Daniel Santiago comes from a long and continuing line of renowned Brasilian guitarists. He has a lively and probing mind and the language of his guitar resonates with sparkling phrases, unusual syntax and an almost full-formed ...
Benjamin Taubkin – Trio + 1 (Adventure Music 2009)
In music – even in a zone of sublime comfort – a small, unexpected ripple can distrub the ebb and flow of the wave, or groove thereby upsetting the complete sense and flow of the ocean of sound. This happens all the time, a...
Eva Scow + Dusty Brough – Sharon of the Sea (Adventure Music)
There is something in the music of Eva Scow that is so unique that the only two other musicians who come to mind when she is playing are Joni Mitchell and perhaps Bela Fleck. And here is why: As a composer and arranger, she hea...
Antonio Arnedo – Colombia – (Adventure Music 2005)
If Lucia Pulido is the doyen of the poetic vocal tradition of Colombian music, Antonio Arnedo is its instrumental ambassador. His cultural collision with the jazz tradition on this remarkable record, Colombia, throws a bright s...
