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Favourite Recordings of 2022
by Maurice Hogue
From an extended all-ECM special last show to close 2022 to this week's favourite shows of 2022 to open a new year. And let me wish you a healthy and productive 2023 while I have the floor. I've picked out music from a goodly number of my favourite releases out of an awful lot of great music released in 2022. The only tracks not on the list are the ones by Maximiliano Kirszner, Javier Moreno and Lisa Marie Simmons, but ...
read moreJeong Lim Yang: Zodiac Suite: Reassured
by Dan McClenaghan
This is bold music. It bursts with freewheeling, chip-on-the-shoulder modernism. It is Korean-born bassist Jeong Lim Yang's take on pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite (Asch Records, 1945). Yang tags her revisitation of the classic piece Zodiac Suite: Reassured. But a revisitation of Williams' original trio renditionto prime the ears for the experience of hearing this new versionsays there was an awful lot of boldness and a big modern lean going on back in the mid-twentieth century. Williams ...
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