Tag: Jacob Garchik

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Already this year Mary Halvorson has starred alongside Sylvie Courvoisier for the spellbinding and spine tingling Bone Bells where she trifled whimsically with flamenco strums and dove headlong into grungy riffs round and about her familiar circuitous matter while Courvoisier on her piano rose steeply or dashed off runaway keys. Widely experimental, meditative and even moving amid all of...

Hard on the heels of The Magic City, which was compered by Meshell Ndegeocello for release in April, and last year's incendiary pulling apart of 'Nuclear War', the nonprofit Red Hot which combats AIDS and promotes equal access to healthcare through pop-culture collaborations unleashes the most jam-packed volume to date in its ongoing series of reinterpretations of works by...

From Paul Robeson, Otis Redding, Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkel to Tyla, TLC and Boyz II Men there is hardly a shortage of songs which evoke water, literal or figurative, from still pools and rolling rivers to gushing precipices, from contemplative docks to collapsible bridges and from vaporous mists to the muggiest sweats. The parlance of jazz with...