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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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Pieces of Treasure

Label: Modern Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Just in Time; There Will Never Be Another You; Nature Boy; One for My Baby; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; All the Way; Here’s That Rainy Day; September Song; On the Sunny Side of the Street; It’s All in the Game.

Album

Olympians

Label: Modern Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Quixote; Esperanto; Miracle Child; Partido Alto; House of Reflections; Barcelona.

Article: Album Review

Rickie Lee Jones: Pieces of Treasure

Read "Pieces of Treasure" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


È stata una relazione lunga e tormentata quella tra Rickie Lee Jones e il songbook jazzistico. Una relazione iniziata con le sue prime esibizioni pubbliche, oltre quarant'anni fa, che va avanti alimentata dall'amore, nonostante tutto. Diciamo questo perché la risposta di pubblico e critica è stata fredda e talvolta feroce. Jazz standards costellano ...

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Song of the Day

Quixote

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Label: Modern Recordings
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:52

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Article: Album Review

Vince Mendoza/Metropole Orkest: Olympians

Read "Olympians" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Eight-time Grammy-winning composer/arranger Vince Mendoza, born and raised in Norwalk, CT, has enjoyed great success overseas--in Europe, to be more precise--since releasing an album with Germany's WDR Big Band in 1994. The following year, Mendoza began collaborating with the Dutch Metropole Orkest and in 1998 was named its principal guest conductor. Olympians is Mendoza's third recording ...

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Article: Album Review

Vince Mendoza Metropole Orkest: Olympians

Read "Olympians" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Many years ago Dizzy Gillespie recorded an album called The New Continent (Limelight, 1965). Whether it was commercially successful is hard to say, but it featured an all-star cast of Los Angeles session players. The recording made a deep impression on some listeners because it was creative, dynamic, exotic and simply enjoyable. Good compositions (by Lalo ...

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Freedom Over Everything

Label: Modern Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1-7. Concerto for Orchestra: American Noise; Consolation; Hit the Streets; Meditation; Justice and the Blues; Freedom over Everything; Finale. 8. To the Edge of Longing; 9. New York Stories.

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Road to the Sun

Label: Modern Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Four Paths of Light (Parts 1-4); Road to the Sun (Parts 1-6); Fur Alina

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Article: Album Review

Vince Mendoza: Freedom Over Everything

Read "Freedom Over Everything" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Freedom Over Everything is a rather tall order, one that New York-born composer & arranger Vince Mendoza has chosen to describe in musical terms—with help from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and a number of guest artists including, on one track, the acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman— via a picturesque seven-movement “Concerto for Orchestra."


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