by Kabir Sehgal | Apr 6, 2018 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Vigor Tanguero Pedro Giraudo Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Vigor Tanguero is the first tango CD for bassist, bandleader, and composer Pedro Giraudo. After releasing five remarkable albums performed by various formats of jazz ensembles, his gaze was captured by the glint...
by Kabir Sehgal | Apr 6, 2018 | All, Liner Notes, Music
An Argentinian in New York Pedro Giraudo and the WDR Big Band Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal On November 29, 2016, the WDR Big Band performed a program of six of my compositions to a packed house at the WDR Funkhaus in Köln. Here I was, an Argentinean who had come to New...
by Kabir Sehgal | Mar 30, 2018 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Ármame: Songs of Love and Loss Lauren Henderson Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Lauren Henderson’s riveting Ármame is both personal and profound, soulful and stirring. She renders her music with seasoned and kaleidoscopic textures, drawing upon her mixed ancestry, which...
by Kabir Sehgal | Feb 2, 2018 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Habana to New Orleans Jambalaya Brass Band Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal, Jonathan Burton The big, brassy beat of a Bourbon street club spills onto the streets of New Orleans, while in Habana’s glamourous Miramar district, rumba dancers sway to saxophones filling the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jan 28, 2018 | All, Music, Op-Ed
The Grammys are coming to New York City. And Congress just did. On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in the city, where Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy, and the artists Aloe Blacc and Booker T. Jones appeared. They testified...
by Kabir Sehgal | Dec 1, 2017 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Rebel Portraiture The Liberation Music Collective Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Rebel Portraiture is a paean to courage. Not just to those who have exhibited this quality, but to those who aspire to live in such a manner – to listen and march to the beat of their...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 13, 2017 | All, Liner Notes, Music
do for you? Lance Bryant, Christian Fabian, Jason Marsalis Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal do for you? is a sizzling album featuring saxophonist and vocalist Lance Bryant, bassist Christian Fabian, and drummer Jason Marsalis. It showcases original works by Bryant and...
by Kabir Sehgal | Nov 10, 2017 | All, Liner Notes, Music
The Pink Room Rondi Marsh Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal There is nothing more joyful and bittersweet than falling in and out of love. One day you’re seeing the stars, the next you’re cursing the darkness. Rondi Marsh’s “Pink Album” is the soundtrack for modern love and...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 22, 2017 | All, Liner Notes, Music
With Love Dilee Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal A remarkable and creative synthesis of music, melody, and mirth, With Love is an incandescent offering from Diana “Dilee” Maher. That the album spans genres and classifications speaks to Dilee’s multi-disciplinary,...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 18, 2017 | All, Liner Notes, Music
Rediscovered Ellington: New Takes on Duke’s Rare and Unheard Music Dial & Oatts Rich DeRosa The WDR Big Band Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Rediscovered Ellington is a rarity that comes along once every few decades, a trove of mostly unheard music by a music...
