Wilbert Sostre
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03/10/12 Albums
CD Review: Gabriel Vicéns – Point in Time
It is hard to believe just by listening to Point in Time, that Gabriel Vicéns just graduated two years ago from the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and this is his debut album. Vicéns shows in his music a maturity well beyond his age, all the compositions...
01/11/12 Albums
CD Review: The New World Jazz Composers Octet - Breaking News
Breaking News is the third album of The New World Jazz Composers Octet. Founded in 2000 by saxophonist Daniel Ian Smith the octet was originally a vehicle for a concert series Smith was running entitled Jazz in the Sanctuary. The new release marks the third...
01/09/12 Albums
CD Review: Hendrik Meurkens - Live at Bird's Eye
Recorded live at Bird's Eye Jazz Club in Basel, Switzerland, the new release by German vibraphone and harmonica player Hendrik Meurkens is without a doubt one of the best albums of 2011. Crisp music, full of intensity and emotions, Meurkens and his group...
01/09/12 Albums
CD Review: Duduka Da Fonseca plays Toninho Horta
Instrumental interpretations of popular songs usually have the insipid taste of what people call elevator music, and in the best of cases of poor quality smooth jazz. But Duduka Da Fonseca is not an ordinary instrumentalist. Da Fonseca, in the words of Toninho...
01/03/12 Albums
CD Review: Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence
Music with original concepts, limitless imagination and high energy, that is Radio Silence, the second album from London Neil Cowley Trio.. Their music can be classified as fusion jazz, but it is really more than that. London born pianist Neil Cowley studied...
01/03/12 Albums
CD Review: Kate Reid - The Love I'm In
Just a few seconds into Kate Reid new album The Love I'm In, are enough to see why she is considered one of the best jazz singers out of California. Reid tone is similar to modern jazz singers like Diana Krall but her soulful style and marvelous phrasing...
01/03/12 Albums
CD Review: Jackson Garrett - Let Sleeping Dog Lie
Jackson Garrett is a creative composer who has the ability to borrow from different music styles to create a unique and interesting sound. Garrett has a strong command of the jazz language "High Time", but his music also contains influences of rock, "Let...
01/03/12 Albums
CD Review: Axel's Axiom - Uncommon Sense
Uncommon Sense is the debut album of the German born, now living in New York, composer/pianist Axel Schwintzer. Schwintzer sextet Axel's Axiom is really an international jazz band, tenor sax Aki Nishiguchi from Japan, guitarrist Casper Gyldensoe from Denmark...
01/02/12 Albums
CD Review: The Landrus Kaleidoscope - Capsule
Contrary to Brian Landrus previous recording, this album is more of a collective project. Of course Landrus is the leader but he allows plenty of space for everyone to shines on these collection of outsatnding compositions. Especially Nir Felder on guitar...
01/02/12 Albums
CD Review: Ryan Davidson Trio
The music on Ryan Davidson trio debut album is hard to classify. It has a western kind of country music feel, understandable due to Ryan Davidson experience with many country music artists. Even the Monk classic "Rouns Midnight" receive an interesting country...
01/02/12 Albums
CD Review: Eddie Daniels/Roger Kellaway - Live at The Library of Congress
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway are the kind of musicians with the exceptional ability to cross from classical to jazz. In fact this album recorded live at the Library of Congress feels at times like a classical music recital. Both...
01/02/12 Albums
CD Review: Bob Shimizu - First and Monroe
In the best tradition of 1980's Smooth jazz, guitarrist/composer Bob Shimizu relaxing sound and welcoming tone echoes the style of guitarrist like Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton. All the compositions on First and Monroe are Shimizu originals. Soothing, and...
12/31/11 Albums
CD Review: Rahe - Out of the Box
Out of the Box is a remarkable debut album from Rahe, a Spain native now living in Tucson, Arizona. Rahe is not only a singer with a sweet voice, she is also a pretty good songwriter. All of the outstanding songs on the release are originals. Rahe music...
12/31/11 Albums
CD Review: Cinque - Catch a Corner
The music of Cinque combines different jazz styles all played with conviction and authenticity. The slow funk jazz fusion "Conflicting Advices", the Bebop sounds of "Geppetto's Blues", the funky "Saturday Night Saturday Morning", the bossa-like "Two Worlds...
12/31/11 Albums
CD Review: Lenny Marcus - The Jazz of Beethoven
If classical music can be criticized for something, is for the relegation of rhythm in favor of the development of melodic and harmonic sophistication. It is precisely the rhythmic complexity that comes from Africa, found in jazz and afro caribbean music...
12/31/11 Albums
CD Review: Phil Dwyer - Changing Seasons
Featuring violinist Mark Fewer and recorded with a Big Band and a string orchestra, Changing Seasons is an ambitious project that fuse Jazz and Classical music. The theme of the album is change and each movement or composition is dedicated to a different...
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Freelance Jazz writer and musician with music courses at the University of Puerto Rico and the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico. Professional/voting member of the Jazz Journalist Association. prjazz.blogspot.com
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Wilbert Sostre joined the JazzTimes community on Mar 31, 2010