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Nebbia/Banner/Andrzejewski: Presencia

Read "Presencia" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 5, 2026

Argentine tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia has emerged as a notable presence in the contemporary jazz landscape since relocating to Berlin in 2020. Her collaborations with Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez and Patrick Shiroishi reflect her adaptability, while solo releases such as Una Ofrenda a la Ausencia and Rastro O Vacío (Relative Pitch, 2023) underscore her introspective bent. On Presencia, she joins British bassist James Banner and German drummer Max Andrzejewski, documenting music forged on European tours in a single live-in-studio session ...

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Nebbia/Banner/Andrzejewski: Presencia

Read "Presencia" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2026

Argentinian tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia wants it known that she is far more than a passing presence on the contemporary jazz scene. Her high-powered, highly personal saxophone voice has become an in-demand commodity, appearing across a wide range of settings and labels. She has collaborated with artists such as Marilyn Crispell, Leo Genovese, Patrick Shiroishi, Angelica Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva and Kit Downes, while also releasing two striking solo statements: una ofrenda a la ausencia (Relative Pitch, 2023) and Rastro ...

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Elsa Nilsson: Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina

Read "Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 3, 2024

Imagine someone coming up to you selflessly offering the gift of time--time to step away from the struggle; to hold a baby high--and that someone is flautist/composer Elsa Nilssonand she is playing her most translucent aria, “The Wind From The North Comes From The West" Some human endeavors are simply more beautiful than others. Nilsson, an active member of the downtown creatives and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant stands alongside ...

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Matt Booth: Sun Prints

Read "Sun Prints" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 5, 2024

Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a wide swath of jazz idioms. Booth's quintet features his frequent associate Oscar Rossignoli on piano and keyboards, along with trumpeter Steve Lands, ...

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Alex Weiss: Most Don't Have Enough

Read "Most Don't Have Enough" reviewed by Robert Middleton

by Robert Middleton
May 3, 2023

This album is really special. It doesn't sound like anything else and every song is engaging and interesting. The titles of the songs are also fascinating. Even the collage cover is great and seems to reflect the music. Tenor saxophonist Alex Weiss started writing Most Don't Have Enough during the pandemic and went deep into writing and practicing. Much of the inspiration came from Chris Speed, as Weiss is a big fan of his writing and his tone. ...

Album Review

Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones

Read "Time Zones" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 13, 2023

The four members of Esthesis Quartet, flutist Elsa Nilsson, pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Emma Dayhuff and drummer Tina Raymond, each live in different parts of the United States, but, as this album shows, when they get together their playing has an easy and natural rapport. With flute as a lead instrument, the group sometimes have the cooler sound associated with West Coast jazz as on the breezy “Hollywood" and the gentle “First Light." However, over the course of ...

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Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones

Read "Time Zones" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2023

Time Zones is the second album by the Esthesis Quartet, comprised of four accomplished women, all whom do indeed reside in different time zones. Flutist Elsa Nilsson, originally from Sweden, lives in Brooklyn, NY; pianist/vocalist Dawn Clement makes her home in Denver, CO; bassist Emma Dayhuff lives in Chicago, drummer Tina Raymond in California, where Time Zones was recorded. The four first met at various festivals, conventions and other sessions around the country, drawn together by a ...

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Shawn Lovato: Microcosms

Read "Microcosms" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 9, 2022

Bassist Shawn Lovato's debut album, Cycles of Animation (Skirl, 2017), possessed a conceptual sophistication that went far beyond an imaginative slice of creative jazz. The same is evident on Microcosms, an album that involves giving his terrific ensemble the chance to develop minute gestures into larger, more determinate shapes. The constant ebb and flow that results is compelling, with a sense of order that periodically takes hold amidst the individual members' freedom to find their own pathways to a common ...

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James Gilmore: Decorating Time

Read "Decorating Time" reviewed by Jeff Kaliss

by Jeff Kaliss
February 4, 2022

"You can find a song that goes with your vocabulary," guitarist James Gilmore has averred. It's not because his album's label, Ears and Eyes, is based in Buenos Aires that the opening title track of Decorating Time speaks in what feels like a new language, or at least a new dialect. Maybe it's something about North Carolina, where Gilmore, bassist Butler Knowles, and drummer Kassem Williams all live and record. That state, like Argentina's capitol city, is said to be ...

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Joaquin Muro: Contracara

Read "Contracara" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 7, 2022

Recorded in the same sessions and presented (digitally only) as the B-side to his first album--the fully careening Oxymoron (ears&eyes, 2021)--Brazilian trumpeter Joaquin Muro, with his high powered, firebrand peer, tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia wailing bravely at his side, sets Contracara ablaze. The music is at its overheating core is a fiery, free jazz rave-up that gleefully and unerringly provides an undisputed respite from the relentless information of our long, recent days. Be the musicians structured as a ...