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Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021

by Geno Thackara
December 31, 2021

Insert the usual cliches here as you see fit: strange times, “new normal," all that stuff. Still, even while some of us give up on terms like “normal" and get used to the idea that there may never be a post-Covid world, great music and art never stops. Amidst another bumper crop of more things than ...

Sunshine Fruit

By Bear Garden

Label: Bolero Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Cherry Tree; Electric Butterfly; New Kid; Invisible Wave; Sunshine Fruit; Liquid Limit; Catching My Childhood Friend.

America, Oh America

Label: Hail Melvin! Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: America, Oh America; Strategies, Pt. I; Big Boys; Stoneman Blues; Two Cities, Two Airports; Forgive Me For Being Such A Simple Man (As Long As I Don't Hurt You); And There I Stood; President; Pink Fish; Parade Day; Honky Tonk; Strategies, Pt. II.

The Calle Stenman Quintet: Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room

by Chris May
November 27, 2019

Welcome to the debut album from the self-proclaimed “roughest jazz group in Sweden," led by trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Calle Stenman. By rough, Stenman's original Swedish text probably meant something akin to “raucous," for there is nothing untutored or blemished about the album, which has been carefully crafted. Four of the tunes—the hard boppish “Jazzkaban," post-boppish ...

Susanna Risberg: Bold As Love

by Ian Patterson
February 25, 2019

Listen to Susanna Risberg playing and it doesn't take long to realize that the twenty-eight-year-old Swedish guitarist is a bit special. Despite her relatively young years Risberg has been gigging for fifteen years already, turning more than a few heads along the way with a style that is unflashy yet exciting, technically impressive yet emotionally keen. ...