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Zac Harmon & The Drive - Live - New Release Review

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 I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Live , from Zac Harmon & The Drive and it's super! Opening with soulful, NTRO , Nate Robinson on bass and Gino Iglehart on drums set a solid foundation, with Corey Lacy building on keys and lush guitar work by Zac Harmon and Kingston Livingston really setting the bar. Terrific opener. Blue Pill Thrill has super movement and soulful vocals by Harmon. Lacy on keys works the rhythm with Robinson and Iglehart and Livingston and and Harmon play stinging riffs on guitar really giving this track some kick. Deep blues track, Feet Back On The Ground features Albert King like stinging riffs and super soulful vocals by Harmon. Keeping the music floor low allows Harmon plenty of space to go dynamically from soft to wow quickly adding real emotion to the track. Excellent! Boogie Down is a strong jam with a firm piano base by Lacy giving Harmon plenty of headroom for vocal corralling. Lacy lays in some real tasty keyboar...
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Elena Maque - Feel Again - New Release Review

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 I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Feel Again , from St Petersburg's, Elena Maque and it's a solid compilation of smooth jazzy pop tracks. Opening with funky, original composition, Hey Friend , Maque on airy vocal and sax is joined by Scott Kinsey on keys, Hadrien Feraud on bass, Gary Novak on drums, Leonardo Amuedo on guitar, Alexeu Nikolaey on tenor sax, and Brad Dutz on percussion. On jazz classic, Lover Man , Maque leads the way on vocal and adds a solid sax solo, backed by Logan Kane on bass and nice Rhodes piano by Kinsey. Pop jazz track, Girl From Ipanema really works nicely in Maque's vocal range showing richness and nice dexterity in Portuguese as well as English.  Weightless is a really nice instrumental with mysterious flavored passages. Maque's soprano sax lead, supported nicely by Darin Clendenin on piano and D'Vonne Lewis on drums is one of my favorites on the release. Wrapping the release is heavily Latin influenced, Lik...
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