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'REVIEW: Myriad3, 'Moons,' Alma Records

Get ready to take off as Canada's prog-jazz trio Myriad3, for its third CD, sets its sights on the heart of the 'Moons' (Alma Records). If 2012's 'Tell' and 2014's 'The Where' were any indications, 'Moons' is where they want to be: packed with surprise, voluptuous weirdness, classical gas and an eccentric eclectic no-holds-barred vision of instrumental music run amok.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • 'REVIEW: Eric Bibb, 'The Happiest Man in the World,' Stony Plain Records

    On 'Lead Belly's Gold,' Eric Bibb teamed up with French blues-harpist JJ Milteau in tribute to folk giant Lead Belly [1888-1949]. Now, 'The Happiest Man in the World' (Stony Plain), has Bibb wandering off into the English countryside with North Country Far and bassist Danny Thompson for one of the best CDs of 2016 so far.
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • 'REVIEW: Lafayette Harris, Jr.,'Hangin' With The Big Boys,' Airmen Records

    Lafayette Harris, Jr. is 'Hangin' with the Big Boys' on his new Airmen Records release. Actually, the one big boy he's hangin' with is Houston Person, 81, a classic oh-so-lyrical-and quite persuasive-tenor sax man who can elicit goose-bumps with his tone. Harris rightly defers to him yet sprinkles the sweetly swinging session with clusters of notes up and down the 88s in a soulful style bound to woo both jazz fans and lite-jazz fans alike.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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