Jazz/Blues
Sonny Sharrock's Groundbreaking 'Ask The Ages' Rereleased by M.O.D. Technologies [REVIEW]
Drummer Ferit Odman Releases 'Dameronia With Strings' on New Equinox Music CD [REVIEW]
Tadd Dameron [1917-1965] came out of Cleveland a piano-playing teenager and was soon writing and arranging in New York City for Count Basie. It's his "Hot House" that helped make Charlie Parker famous, and he also greatly helped and inspired Dizzy Gillespie. He co-led a 1949 band with Miles Davis in Paris. In 1956, he recorded "Mating Call" and gave an unknown sax player named John Coltrane his big break. 'Dameronia With Strings' (Equinox Music & Entertainment) is the brainchild of drummer Ferit Odman, from Istanbul, Turkey. MPS Exhumes Marvin Peterson's 1976 Thrill Ride 'Hannibal In Berlin' [REVIEW]
Texas trumpeter Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, 67, gained a name for himself in the early 1970s by performing and recording as part of the Gil Evans Orchestra, and in the bands of Roy Haynes and Pharoah Sanders. By 1976, he was fronting his own combos with a curious mixture of tradition and totally avant-garde squeaks, freaks, blips, beeps, grunts, honks, squeals and any other possible sound he could think of. That year he performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and went wild. The set was preserved for posterity and re-released in 2015 as 'Hannibal In Berlin' by MPS Records out of Germany. The dude's a killer on this thrill ride of an album!
