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'REVIEW: Kenny Garrett, 'Do Your Dance!,' Mack Avenue Records
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'REVIEW: Steve Fidyk, 'Allied Forces,' Posi-Tone Records
One realizes just how special 'Allied Forces' (Posi-Tone) by Steve Fidyk is about halfway through Monk opener "Evidence." Dealing with Monk's myriad changes and convoluted thought processes in a shiny new irresistible way has that good new-car smell about it that hooks you right in, and it's like that for the duration, partly because guitarist Shawn Purcell and tenor saxist Doug Webb make the absolute most of their opportunity here. -
'REVIEW: Sebastian Noelle, 'Shelter,' Fresh Sound New Talent
Nothing is what it seems on New York City guitarist-composer Sebastian Noelle's 'Shelter' (Fresh Sound New Talent). Its 10 original quintet tracks in 67:43 surprise and delight when they all seem to morph into something different, many in mid-tune! Influences as varied as German literature, Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal and ragas from India butt heads in this free-wheeling montage of sound.