Tuesday, July 21, 2015

NEW RELEASES: JASON ROEBKE – NO LIMITS; DWAYNE CLEMONS – LIVE AT SMALLS; JIMI TENOR & UMO - MYSTERIUM MAGNUM

JASON ROEBKE – NO LIMITS

One of the few dates as a leader we've ever seen from trumpeter Dwayne Clemons – a player who spent more than a few years on the New York scene, and is right at home here in the Live At Smalls series! The set's got a nice old fashioned live vibe to it – players opening up on a range of jazz classics – each taking their turn in the solo spotlight, getting plenty of space to perform, and matching Clemons' vibe as a leader – in ways that maybe take us back to similar live recordings from vintage years – such as sets at the Lighthouse or Birdland! In addition to Clemons on trumpet, other players include Josh Benko on alto and baritone, Sacha Perry on piano, Murray Wall and Jon Roche on bass, and Jimmy Wormworth on drums – on titles that include "Down With It", "Bean Soup", "Salute To Band In Box", "Roccus", and "Stoned".  ~ Dusty Groove

DWAYNE CLEMONS – LIVE AT SMALLS

One of the few dates as a leader we've ever seen from trumpeter Dwayne Clemons – a player who spent more than a few years on the New York scene, and is right at home here in the Live At Smalls series! The set's got a nice old fashioned live vibe to it – players opening up on a range of jazz classics – each taking their turn in the solo spotlight, getting plenty of space to perform, and matching Clemons' vibe as a leader – in ways that maybe take us back to similar live recordings from vintage years – such as sets at the Lighthouse or Birdland! In addition to Clemons on trumpet, other players include Josh Benko on alto and baritone, Sacha Perry on piano, Murray Wall and Jon Roche on bass, and Jimmy Wormworth on drums – on titles that include "Down With It", "Bean Soup", "Salute To Band In Box", "Roccus", and "Stoned".  ~ Dusty Groove

JIMI TENOR & UMO - MYSTERIUM MAGNUM

Heavenly sounds from the great Jimi Tenor – a Finnish talent who once specialized in cold, calculated sounds – but one who's really opened into some spiritual, soulful territory in the past decade or so! This album wonderfully continues Jimi's great shift – and features his own work on tenor and flute with this very cool larger group that moves with energy that's somewhere between Sun Ra's Arkestra and some of the hipper groups of the 70s Ethiopian scene – awash in all the exotic elements that you'd expect from both references, but also showing a real maturation in Tenor's musical vision too – so that some passages have these sublime soulful arrangements we never would have expected a few years before! Unlike other contemporary projects of this nature, the album's not just a rehash of older 70s spiritual jazz modes – and instead really reflects the continuing elevation of Tenor's talents as the years go on. Titles include "Ghost Warrior", "Blue Ural", "Koneen Sydan", "I Was Here", "Kratera", "Kollaasi", and "Naulamatto". ~ Dusty Groove




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