Artist: Arifa Title: Anatolian Alchemy Label: Mundus Genre: oriental jazz Review by Matt Cole Anatolian Alchemy is a new CD from multinational band Arifa, which consists of Alex Simu (Romania) on clarinets and laptop, Mehmet Polat (Turkey) on oud, Franz von Chossy (Germany) on piano, and Sjahin During (Turkey/Holland) on Afro Anatolian percussion. It is […]
Artist: Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope Title: Mirage Label: BlueLand Records Genre: jazz/funk Review by Matt Cole Mirage is the 5th CD as a leader from composer/low reedsman Brian Landrus. In addition to Kaleidoscope, which consists of Nir Felder on guitar, Frank Carlberg on Rhodes and piano, Lonnie Plaxico on acoustic and electric bass, and Rudy Royston […]
Date: September 18, 2012 Venue: Douglass Street Music Collective (Brooklyn, NY) Concert review by Matt Cole Recently, I reviewed Jaywalkin’, the new CD by NoReduce. As I had a very positive reaction to the CD, I was excited to have a chance to see, hear, and review the opening show of their U.S. Mini-tour this past September, at […]
1. The Old Ceremony @ The Standard, East Village 2. NoReduce NY concert series (feat. Nasheet Waits, dr / Raffaele Bossard, dr / Dave Gisler, g / CI, ts) Dates:
