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Jeppe Zeeberg: Six Additional Pieces of Piano Music
by Karl Ackermann
Over the decade starting in 2014, the Danish pianist Jeppe Zeeberg showcased his talents in a variety of settings, from duos to large ensembles. His first album with a quartet, It's The Most Basic Thing You Can Do on A Boat (Barefoot Records, 2014), featured a mix of swing and daring creativity. Zeeberg's improvisational style is characterized by audacious invention. His debut solo album, Eight Seemingly Unrelated Pieces of Piano Music (Barefoot, 2018), revealed his diverse keyboard skills, incorporating organ, ...
Continue ReadingHirsh / Swell / Clouse / Parker: Out On A Limb
by Mark Corroto
Can déjà vu be contagious? Or at least a particular quality or disposition that is communicable? This might be the question to ask after sitting down with Out On A Limb by the improvising quartet of Steve Hirsh, Steve Swell, Jim Clouse, and William Parker. The music this unit created spontaneously in April 2024 does not appear from thin air, it is a product of a half-century of innovation and modernism in music. Much of that history has ...
Continue ReadingHerbie Hancock and Chick Corea: Maiden Voyage
by Scott Lichtman
Few have played “Maiden Voyage" as beautifully as its composer Herbie Hancock and compatriot Chick Corea live on two pianos for their album An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea (1978, Sine Qua Non). In fact, few improvisational piano duets have ever been performed this engagingly on any jazz material. Their minds are so harmonically fertile and their instrumental dexterity so fluid that the two greats engage and astound the audience for a continuous 13 minutes. The music ebbs ...
Continue ReadingVision Festival 2024
by Luciano Rossetti
A collection of photos from the Vision Festival 2024 in Brooklyn at the Roulette Theatre, from June 18 to June 23, 2024 featuring William Parker, James Brandon Lewis, Dave Burrell, Matthew Shipp, Orrin Evans, Darius Jones, Ingrid Laubrock, Jen Shyu, Ava Mendoza, James Blood Ulmer, Amina Claudine Myers, Isaiah Collier, Marshall Allen Sun Ra Arkestra, Rob Brown, Steve Swell and many others. ...
Continue ReadingUnder The Surface: Joost Lijbaart, Sanne Rambags, Bram Stadhouders
by Ian Patterson
Under The Surface Joost Lijbaart, Sanne Rambags, Bram Stadhouders 100 Pages Self Published 2024 Why wait for your 10th anniversary to release a handsome, hardbound coffee-table book replete with stunning photos and illustrations charting your band's trajectory, when you can do so on your 9th? Then again, Under The Surface, the Dutch improvising trio of Joost Lijbaart (drums/percussion), Bram Stadhouders (electronics/guitars) and Sanne Rambags (vocals), has always done things a little differently. The book's ...
Continue ReadingDom Salvador, Chris Bangs, Harry Beckett, Jenny Scheinman, And More
by Tony Poole
12 brand new tracks... Tony Poole, former BBC jazz presenter, presents his favourite tracks released over the past seven days or so. Jazz, Jazz Not Jazz, you decide! Playlist John Beasley and the hr-Bigband & Frankfurt Radio Big Band “Vulcan Worlds" from Returning To Forever (Candid) 00:00 Sly5thAve “Liberation" (Jamz Supernova & Sam Interface Remix) single (Tru Thoughts) 09:14 The Mantecas “Yes And No" single (Don Fiora Music) 13:47 Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad “Os Ancestrais feat. ...
Continue ReadingUsein Bekirov, Andrew Renfro, Jizue, The Aristocrats and David Preston
by Len Davis
New music from Ukranian pianist Usein Bekirov, New York drummer Andrew Renfro, Japanese band Jizue, and pianist Bill Laurence. Bassist Tony Levin, percussionist Gary Musznski, The Aristocrats, Polish band EABS, and London guitarist David Preston. Playlist Usein Bekirov “Breeze" from Freeway (TLSG Digital) 00:00 Andrew Renfro “Calls" from Primordial (Self Produced) 05:27 Jizue “Republic" from Lotus (Victor) 10:54 Bill Laurence “Ju Ju" from Rhodes MK 8 Sessions (Flint) 16:21 Tony Levin “Bringing It Down To The Bass" from ...
Continue ReadingDetroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very personal and spiritual level. The world's largest free jazz festival removes financial barriers of access and brings the music to the people, whether you ...
Continue ReadingChad McCullough: In These Hills, Beyond
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Chad McCullough started his recording career in Seattle at Origin Records, releasing five albums between 2009 and 2015 under his name or as a co-leader with pianist Bram Weitjers. It was a successful run that earned him the “Rising Star" tag. A move to Chicago to teach, the release of his “Best of Year" pick, 2020's Forward (Outside In Music), and the subsequent starting up of his Calligram Records that has taken his artistry and his career to the ...
Continue ReadingTony Oxley: Unreleased 1974 - 2016
by Chris May
The British drummer and bandleader Tony Oxley passed in 2023, aged 85, after a career which began in the mid 1960s as the drummer in the house band at Ronnie Scott's club. From this prestigious but relatively codified platform, Oxley soon steered into less travelled waters. In 1969 he was in the quartet which recorded John McLaughlin's debut album, Extrapolation (Polydor). In the early 1970s, he began adding ring modulators, tone generators and other fx tools to his assemblage of ...
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