Music To Your Ears World Premiere: Rahim Alhaj’s “Fly Away” Albuquerque composer and virtuosic oudist Rahim Alhaj calls his newest composition, “Fly Away,” an unusual piece. Its instrumentation—oud and four guitars, including a [...] Mel Minter \ Jan 15, 2009 Read More
Jazzed: Ajo 2.0 Artistic Director Bobby Shew Leads The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Onto Higher Ground Renowned trumpeter Bobby Shew has come full circle, and the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn’t be happier about it. For Shew, who returned to [...] Mel Minter \ Dec 18, 2008 Read More Little Boy Shew, come blow your horn (... with the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra). (Tina Larkin)
Cd Release: Resonance Patti Littlefield And Mark Weaver’s Daring Duo Vocalist Patti Littlefield and tubaist/didgeridooist Mark Weaver enjoy walking out on a musical limb. Now, with the release of their group’s eponymous CD, [...] Mel Minter \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More Weaver and Littlefield are Resonance
Cd Release: Charmed Twice Over Bitter Suite 7 Haunts The Earways On its second CD, the “twisted folk” duo Charmed—Alicia Ultan and Bambi Wolf—once again take on the darkness and find the light. In [...] Mel Minter \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More Ultan and Wolf: Charmed
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón Finds A New Balance Between The Ordered And The Unexpected Acclaimed Quartet Takes New Roads To Great Jazz The young alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón brings the mathematical rigor and certainty of an engineer, which he nearly was, to his jazz compositions [...] Mel Minter \ Nov 20, 2008 Read More Miguel Zenón
Jazzed: John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet Composer’s Genre-Blind Music Gently Breaks New Ground Drummer/composer John Hollenbeck admits to being a “mixtape guy.” As a kid, he’d raid his brother’s record collection to create tapes featuring a [...] Mel Minter \ Nov 06, 2008 Read More John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet
Un, Deux, Trois Guitarist Stephane Wrembel Takes Gypsy Jazz On A Wild And Wonderful Ride At The Third Annual New Mexico Django Fest French guitarist Stephane Wrembel can almost play faster than ears can listen. Before the brain can really register every precisely filigreed ornamentation, every [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 23, 2008 Read More Stephane Wrembel
Jazzed: Chiara Civello Italian Songbird Opens The Outpost’s 20 Th Season For Chiara Civello, the Italian-born singer/songwriter, pianist and guitarist, a series of happy accidents, long training and the ability to forget have been [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 02, 2008 Read More Signora Civello
17 Hippies At ¡Globalquerque! Unclassifiably Original Band Merges East And West In Dance Grooves Galore When you slide Heimlich, the latest CD from 17 Hippies, into the computer, the disc obligingly gives up the expected data: album name, [...] Mel Minter \ Sep 18, 2008 Read More (Andreas Riedel)
Jazzed: Robb Janov Violinist Stretches Out Under The Stars At Seasons If Robb Janov’s parents had banked their concern about his shyness just a little longer, he might have turned out to be a [...] Mel Minter \ Aug 21, 2008 Read More Robb Janov and his electric violin (Tina Larkin)
