Audio
It's 'The Third Decade' for the All-Stars of One for All on Smoke Sessions Records [REVIEW]
Henning Sievert's 'Double Quartet' is a Rare Meld of Beauty, Mystery and History [REVIEW]
For his 16th CD, Henning Sieverts' 'Double Quartet' (Pirouet) reaches back over 600 years to research the history of the Bavarian Irsee Monastery in uncovering a mass written in 1614. He then wrote 15 original pieces of music (shortest 51 seconds; longest 12 minutes) for duo, quartet and octet in a similar style but expanding it into modern jazz. No overdubs. Toronto's Kat Kings are 'Swingin' in the Swamp' on Dynamite New Self-Released Party [REVIEW]
Kat Kings leader Kevin McQuade was on tour supporting 2011's 'The Winning Hand' debut when he got the news that his daughter was near death from a car crash. Leaving the road, he wrote "It Came From The Swamp" while in a hospital waiting room, one of 13 tracks from The Kat Kings' self-released raucous 'Swingin' in the Swamp' follow-up.
