New Releases [Jazz] … for the Week of 7/5/2010

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African American, Jazz, New Releases, The Mark Lomax Trio

Greetings’ jazz aficionados, I’m back with an intricate canvas of what’s –cool– and maybe not so –cool– from a optimistic perspective we don’t usually find in the diet of the chromatic pop music culture. The origin of new music featured each week encompasses various branches of jazz, which exudes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, insinuating textures, immaculate melodies, and relentless rhythms exalted by the definitive voices of creative artists serves up sounds to quench our immutable thirst for quality music.

Featured Album of the Week

The Mark Lomax Trio - The State of America

The Mark Lomax Trio -||- The State of Black America – [Inarhyme Records, LLC, 2010]

In 1998 The Mark Lomax Trio first burst on the American jazz scene as ‘Blacklist’ a group led by then 19 year old composer and percussionist Mark Lomax and featured composer and tenor saxophonist Edwin Bayard in the front line. Through the years the group has gained national recognition for its recordings and tours with trumpeter and former Columbia recording artist Marlon Jordan, and most recently tenor saxophone legend Azar Lawrence! But as time passed the band has undergone several personnel changes, and due to the economics of jazz in America almost ceased to exist. !That is, until Mark scheduled a recording session to which only Bayard and the newest member of the band, bassist and composer Dean Hullett, could attend. !The results, which reinvigorated the road worn trio, gave birth to The Mark Lomax Trio and the upcoming releases “The State of Black America,” and “Ornette’s Theory.”

Flux Music Essentials … [Jones, Marsalis, Moran, Postma & Lung]

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Brandford Marsalis, Jason Moran, Jazz, Lage Lund, Mimi Jones, Tineke Postma

Flux Music Essentials

Greeting’s jazz lovers, I’m back in with another tantalizing yet satisfying blend of original jazz that’s shaken and well stirred to perfection from the shelves of the “Flux Music Essentials.”

Mimi Jones - A New Day

Mimi Jones -||- A New Day – [Hot Tone Music, 2009]

Mimi Jones, multi talented bassist, vocalist and composer, brings her beacon of musical light to the world while embracing a positive future with her inspiring messages. Mimi’s elegant sound is an eclectic mix of genres based in a strong jazz foundation that leave room for funky bass grooves, world beat rhythms, gentle textures and the soulful cries of the Wurlizer. “My music taps in directly to the senses using elements of jazz, folk, rock, blues and different sounds from around the world which have all had such a profound effect on me.”

Her inspiring debut recording, ”A New Day” is bursting with original compositions seamlessly melting from one song to another and caressed by the warmth of Mimi’s sultry voice. The music is a rich assortment of rhythmic statements, musical textures, and compositional variations all flawlessly executed by Mimi Jones (acoustic bass, electric bass, vocals, composer, arranger, and assistant producer), Marvin Sewell (acoustic and electric guitars), Miki Hayama (piano, key board and Wurlitzer), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Lucianna Padmore (drums on tracks 1 and 11) and Ambrose Akinmisure (trumpet). The title of the CD speaks of embracing a changing world with a positive point of view while maintaining the courage to move forward just as the new persona and alter ego, Mimi Jones, was transformed from “side man” Miriam Sullivan in order to fully express her individual messages of change and personal evolution. —CDBaby.com

[Classic Jazz Revisited] … features “Portrait in Jazz” by pianist Bill Evans

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Bill Evans, Jazz, Piano

Flux Classic Jazz Revisited

Greetings jazz aficionados, I’m back to pay tribute to another quintessential voice in the world of jazz. Each week these amazing recordings are complied from their various bodies of work caught in session during their most prosperous and influential years as recording artist in the fifties, sixties and early seventies.

“Classic Jazz Revisited,” spotlights the finest recordings from legendary music labels like Blue Note, CTI, Riverside, Verve, and Prestige Records etc … as always your recommendations are appreciated!

Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz

Bill Evans -||- Portrait in Jazz – [Riverside, 1959]

PORTRAIT IN JAZZ: BILL EVANS TRIO is quite simply GRACE in Trio form expressing itself as Jazz. There is an intensity at the heart of the music on this album – and an effortlessness. There is a BEAUTY revealing itself at every moment of the musical expression on this album by Bill Evans (Piano), Scott LaFaro (Bass), and Paul Motian (Drums). I purchased it on Amazon,and couldn’t be more pleased with it. I’ve never been affected by a pianist as I have by Bill Evans.

His lyricism, touch, the sheer depth of feeling he penetrated into, his introspection as an artist all combine into a quality, a presence – musically, that makes him, quite simply, one of a kind. He found his musical soul mates in Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. They were together for only a moment. But thank whatever that is that brought them together. There’s not much more to say.

PORTRAIT IN JAZZ is musical perfection. Words don’t quite get to the heart of explaining or getting a hold of such a thing as GRACE. All one can really do is to be hungry for it. And, when or if, whatever that mysterious force is, it chooses to present itself to us – receive it. —DH/Amazon.com

Go here, to shim through Bill Evans catalog of music!

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Hilario Durán Trio -||- Motion [ALMA RECORDS]

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Hilario Durán, Jazz, Piano

Hilario Durán Trio - Motion

Hilario Durán Trio -||- Motion – [ALMA RECORDS SPAIN, 2010]

“Motion” is the exciting new release by the Hilario Durán Trio, featuring Roberto Occhipinti on bass, and Mark Kelso on drums. High quality mp3s are available for download. Please visit Alma Records for ordering instructions.

Hilario Durán (Hilario Luis Durán Torres) was born in Havana, Cuba in 1953. He was born into a musical family surrounded by various musical influences. Hilario’s grandmother played guitar; his mother studied piano, and his father, Hilario Durán Senior, played guitar and sang throughout his lifetime. Hilario started playing the piano by ear when he was eight years old. He played the piano like it was a toy, and his mother could not get him away from itso – she had to lock it up and hide the key!

In the 1940s, Hilario’s father was part of the Cuban musical movement called “Movimiento del ‘Feeling’” (The ‘Feeling’ Movement). Hilario Senior used to meet with a group of musicians in Callejón de Hamel. Some of these musicians included Omara Portuondo, José Antonio Méndez, Cesar Portillo de la Luz, Angel Diaz, Ñico Rojas, Frank Emilio Flynn. Hilario’s father introduced the singer Elena Burke to this movement. He was very friendly with all of the musicians of this group. When Hilario was a young boy, the great Omara moved into a home across the street from the Durán house and one day she heard Hilario playing his sister’s upright piano. A few days later, she knocked on the door and presented him with a gift -his very first copy of a musical lead sheet for the song Debí Llorar, by Giraldo Piloto and Alberto Vera.

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