JAZZ CORNER Presents: Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (2014)
Noura Mint Seymali 'Tzenni' (Glitterbeat, 2014) Tzenni is one of my favorite records from 2014. Ms. Seymali fronts a North African power rock quartet with her beautifully ecstatic...
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JAZZ CORNER Presents: Pat Bianchi
Pat Bianchi is a dominant force on the Hammond Organ. He's one of the leading Organist and an incredible B3 player. He's a very busy man – playing...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Wayne Shorter – Night Dreamer (1964)
Night Dreamer is all that it’s supposed to be ... for me it was as if I had opened the door to my past. I remembered being about...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Pete La Roca – Basra (1965)
What a sincerely fun piece of work this is ... from the onset, there is a nice heavy bottom created by the piano and bass, evoking an intensely...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (1958)
Perhaps I’ve watched too many movies, because I pictured my adventure into the world of Jazz as being more cerebral, more intellectual and more scholarly ... but, to...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Machine Mass interview with Tony Bianco and Michel Delville
Machine Mass is a joint project of well respected drummer Tony Bianco and innovative guitarist Michel Delville. Both of them were part of various music projects, that we...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (1964)
This release is exceptional on many levels, the first and most important, and certainly most satisfying for this listener, is that the whole sounds like the sum of...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Steven Walcott’s introductory column
First off I wanted to thank Klemen for giving me some space on his psychedelic music magazine to write about improvised music/jazz, the most ignored and the least...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Curtis Nowosad
©Rachel Boese Curtis Nowosad is a very busy man. He's a Jazz drummer, composer, arranger and also an educator. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Curtis became recognized as one...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Herbie Mann – Stone Flute (1970)
Artists often fall short when they step out of their trademark sound, but not Herbie Mann, best known for his soulful jazz. Here on Stone Flute, Mann slides...