Jazz Articles about Genevieve Artadi

About Genevieve Artadi

Album Review

Louis Cole: Quality Over Opinion

Read "Quality Over Opinion" reviewed by Scott Lichtman

by Scott Lichtman
February 18, 2024

Louis Cole is a chameleonic genius--merging beats, samples and catchy tunes across styles ranging from “metal-funk-fusion" to “pastoral falsettos." His loose incorporation of jazz traits, including syncopation, funk keys and sophisticated horn arrangements, has yielded new validation with a Grammy 2024 Best Alternative Jazz Album nomination for Quality Over Opinion (originally released in 2022). Cole plays fluid keys, guitar, drums, sings and produces. There are twenty pieces on Quality Over Opinion. Practically every tune--the majority clock-in at under ...

Album Review

Quinn Oulton: Alexithymia

Read "Alexithymia" reviewed by Peter Jones

by Peter Jones
August 5, 2022

It was hardly a new sentiment: "Jazz is dead," proclaimed trumpet-player Theo Croker at a recent London gig. What he meant, of course, was that the word jazz is dead, a turn-off for the general public, and a millstone around the necks of those who try to make a living out of playing it. Why can't we just call it music? he wanted to know.This new album by British singer-composer-saxophonist-multi-instrumentalist Quinn Oulton asks the same question implicitly. In ...