Tag: Herculaneum

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Jan

On Herculaneum

This review appears in the January 2012 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Herculaneum UCHŪ (ind.) By David R. Adler On releases such as Orange Blossom, Herculaneum III and Olives and Orchids, the Chicago sextet Herculaneum fashioned a sound full of urgent, percolating rhythm and well-placed dissonance — a horn-heavy aesthetic with echoes of Blue Note’s ’60s avant-garde

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1
Dec

Six Picks: December 2010

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York, December 2010: Luis Bonilla, Twilight (Planet Arts) Avishai Cohen, Introducing Triveni (Anzic) Patrick Cornelius, Fierce (Whirlwind) Benoît Delbecq, Circles and Calligrams (Songlines) Herculaneum, Olives and Orchids (EF) SFJazz Collective, Live 2010: The Works of Horace Silver (SFJazz)