Audio
'REVIEW: Slavic Soul Party!, 'Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite,' Ropeadope Records
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'REVIEW: Jochen Rueckert, 'Charm Offensive,' Pirouet Records
Jochen Rueckert is on a 'Charm Offensive' for his second Pirouet release. Having immigrated to 1990s New York City from his native Germany, he's got some top-notch New Yorkers behind him to fuse classical music from India with jazz to create a whole new sub-genre. Blending ragas with jazz opens up whole new avenues of exploration and this quartet does Ruekert's eight complex originals proud. -
'REVIEW: Peter Brendler, 'Message In Motion," Posi-Tone Records
Another winner from the left coast's Posi-Tone: consider it a 'Message In Motion' by Peter Brendler where six of the tracks feature no chords whatsoever as it's Brendler's bass augmented by Rich Perry's tenor sax, the trumpet of Peter Evans and Vinnie Sperazza with the type of kinetic drumming that continually moves the music forward.