Gadabout Season developed over many months of recording sessions in Brandee Younger’s East Harlem living room.
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When she’s on the road, Brandee Younger enters a hybrid state of action and contemplation. Free of daily distractions — of organizing her workspace, of shopping for groceries,…
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Eddie Palmieri is a dynamo at the piano: digging deep into a solo, rolling out the complex pattern of a montuno, and leaping from his keyboard to urge on his jazz-hot Afro-Caribbean orchestra as it tears through hip harmonic motifs set in rock-steady claves to thrill smart listeners and swirling dancers alike. As he has since the ’60s with such bands as La Perfecta and Harlem River Drive — and with successive generations of jazz players from vibist Cal Tjader to the final alumni of Art Blakey’s college of musical knowledge — Palmieri rejects…
