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'Blogarrhea: Top 10 CDs Best of 2015 List

I love lists. When I was a kid, I made lists of baseball players, professional wrestlers, girls at school I liked, TV shows, movies, cartoons, comedians, super heroes and rock stars. Now, at 64, I'm still making lists. Plus, I did get to have one sterling moment-in-time after thrilling to the music of David Crosby, and that was meeting the man and totally gushing. Here is my top 10 CD of 2015 list to go with that absolutely awesome moment of the year.
  • 'BLOGARRHEA: Synaesthetic Sax Man Ivo Perelman on Smelling Music, Hearing Color and Seeing Smell

    He's a painter and a prophet. This man named Ivo Perelman, compete with synesthesia, comes from Brazil to blow your mind with six CDs this year alone and 25 CDs over the last five years. Call it Saxarrhea. He goes into the studio with no rehearsal, no written music in hand and barely an idea of where the music will take him. Yet he is one of South America's most respected artists both on a canvas and on a stage. Just no sheet music, please.
  • 'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Randy Brecker

    With the release of 'RandyPop!' on Piloo Records, Randy Brecker, age 70, has come full circle. Back in the day, prior to and during an age when he and his Brecker Brother Michael [1949-2007] racked up hit albums on their own, Brecker was the go-to studio guy for, well, everyone. So now, as arranged by Kenny Werner, the famed trumpeter looks back by tackling some of those same songs, only this time with an impressive line-up of drummer Nate Smith, bassist John Patitucci, guitarist Adam Rogers, daughter Amanda Brecker on vocals, saxophonist David Sanchez filling the role his late brother played and arranger Werner chipping in on piano and keyboards.
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