New JAZZ Releases for the Week of 5/10/2011

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Gerald Clayton, Jazz, Mads Vinding, Mezzoforte, New Releases, Steve Khan

Greeting’s jazz aficionados, as always I’m delighted to present the latest jazz releases this week. With each visit, you’ll discover a montage of new jazz recordings featured at Amazon.com that encompasses a generous diet of nuances which includes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, textures, melodies, and rhythms exalted by a host of definitive and creative voices in the world of jazz.

For more details, please visit Amazon.com for a complete list of jazz releases for Tuesday (5/10/2011)!

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Steve Khan -][- PARTING SHOT [Tone Center]

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Anthony Jackson, Bobby Allende, Dennis Chambers, Guitar, Jazz, Marc Quiñones, Steve Khan

Steve Khan - PARTING SHOT

Steve Khan -][- PARTING SHOT – [Tone Center, 2011]

Parting Shot represents a most special moment for Steve, because it is the first time that he has felt ready to present an entire recording dedicated to Latin Jazz.

Anthony Jackson, Manolo Badrena, and Steve are together yet again, alongside their bandmate of 20 years, Dennis Chambers, where, joined by master Latin musicians, Marc Quiñones and Bobby Allende, they have crafted these 10 pieces of music.

It is their hope that everyone will enjoy the recording to the fullest, Vaya!!! –Amazon

Khan’s “PARTING SHOT” is scheduled for release on May 10, 2011!

Track Listing:
1. Chronology
2. Los Gaiteros
3. Change Agent (El Catalizador)
4. Bye-ya
5. María Mulambo
6. Influence Peddler (Traficante de Influencias)
7. When She s Not Here (Cuando Ella no Está)
8. Blues Connotation
9. Zancudoville
10. Just Deserts

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Steve Khan | Got My Mental

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Guitar, Jack DeJohnette, Jazz, John Patitucci, Steve Khan

Steve Khan | Got My Metal – [Evidence, 1997]

Steve Khan, Got My Mental

The problem with assessing the quality of cd’s is that artists often have different phases in their career, or different kinds of output for their talent. Khan, for example, had a “fusion” phase (early Khan material and the band Eyewitness), has a Latin jazz side, is a superlative sideman and session player (look at, e.g., Steely Dan’s Gaucho album), and has real bonafides as a “straight ahead” jazz player.

My favorite format in jazz is the trio, particularly the jazz guitar trio. Khan has done several albums in this vein and Got My Mental is my favorite (it’s more or less a trio). The songs are perfect examples of trio playing where the interactivity is so complete that one almost forgets there are separate players. Khan’s melodies are sing-able (a forgotten art in so much guitar jazz) and his solos speak with phrases both lovely and enigmatic. (Is Khan the Wallace Stevens of the guitar solo? Not a bad analogy.) Here, too, John Patitucci really shines; one of the first albums where he leaves the “hot shot fusion bass player” thing behind and lets Khan’s melodism guide him beyond his technical habits. And Jack DeJohnette–what can be said? He is a drummer’s drummer, the perfect third point in this triangle.

Without a doubt, this is a “Desert Island Disc.” Check it out and you’ll be singing it for the rest of the month. —David Hildebrand

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