Offering an atypical approach to the melding of hip hop and jazz, Kassa Overall sets up his own little arts and crafts table in the larger existing field of mostly heavy on the beat, sparse on the jazz music tracks. Overall utilizes jazz motifs as a focal point rather than a background component, and allows the music to freely move around within the loose embrace of his lyrics … [Read more...]
Yes! Trio’s New Album ‘Groove du Jour’ Reviewed
I was introduced to Aaron Goldberg through his Worlds album; I heard him play at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2008 and got really hung up on his version of “Lambada de Serpente”. It’s a playful composition, with sensitive musical interaction between his key work, Eric Harland’s drumming, and Reuben Roger’s bass bowing. The whole record was solid, but that one track with a bounci … [Read more...]