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Julius Hemphill: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade For Harmony

Read "The Boyé Multi-National Crusade For Harmony" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 3, 2021

There is something inherently objectionable when a billionaire acquires an artistic masterpiece by say, Leonardo DaVinci or Claude Monet, only to sequester it from public view. You might feel the same about Julius Hemphill's recordings Dogon A.D. (Mbari, 1972) and 'Coon Bid'ness (Arista/Freedom, 1975). Both five star recordings, now out of print, cost a small fortune to acquire. Years ago saxophonist Tim Berne, a disciple of Hemphill, endeavored to rescue the saxophonist's Blue Boyé (Mbari, 1977) by rereleasing it in ...

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Bill Evans: Hey Bill, It's Paul From Abbey Road

Read "Hey Bill, It's Paul From Abbey Road" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 1, 2021

Hot after the release of Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott's (2020), Resonance Records and the Estate of Bill Evans announced an extraordinary find, now in the final stages of being prepped as a two-disc set entitled Hey Bill, It's Paul from Abbey Road. Recorded off the cuff as a sort of mic-set-up time before the session started, McCartney, a natural instrumentalist in the middle of the four who were recording the defiant White Album, two releases are ...

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Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Read "Lost Within You" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 26, 2021

The Franco Ambrosetti Band Band's Lost Within You is a supremely unassuming listening experience. An all-star band helps the trumpeter composer conjure a sensuous mood that only grows progressively engrossing over the course of the seventy-plus minutes playing time of the album. The seductive sensation is an inexorable process that commences with the very first cut. The second-longest track on the record next to “Body and Soul," Horace Silver's “Peace" features drummer Jack DeJohnette at the piano and ...

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Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott's

Read "Live at Ronnie Scott's" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 13, 2021

Bill Evans was always at home onstage. Live at Ronnie Scott's, Resonance Records' fifth Bill Evans archival offering, hits the same high marks as its predecessors--2012's standard bearer Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of The Gate , 2016's Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest, 2018's Another Time and 2019's Evans In England--majestically did. Do not let the dreaded tape hiss limit your listening. Recorded in '68, during a month-long residency at you-know-where, Evans--with the ...

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Bill Evans: Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott's

Read "Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott's" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
February 15, 2021

Dobbiamo ringraziare la determinazione e la perseveranza di Zev Feldman, inesausto ricercatore di perle musicali dei grandi del jazz, pubblicate con fierezza dalla Resonance Records. Lo scavo assiduo riguarda in particolare Bill Evans, del quale sono già comparsi alcuni dischi con concerti inediti, cui si aggiunge questo Live at Ronnie Scott's che documenta esibizioni nel celebre club londinese del luglio 1968, quando per un breve periodo il trio di Evans era composto da Eddie Gomez e Jack DeJohnette.

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Franco Ambrosetti Band: Lost Within You

Read "Lost Within You" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 8, 2021

Swiss trumpeter / flugelhorninst Franco Ambrosetti opens his Lost Within You with “Peace," from the pen of pianist Horace Silver. The original rendition comes from Silver's Blowin' The Blues Away (Blue Note, 1959). It was a composition that Silver stumbled upon when he was “doodling around on the piano, and it just came to me." It featured Blue Mitchell's characteristically brassy trumpet tone. It was unusual in the Silver songbook—an introspective, patiently deployed ballad, instead of the normal hard-charging, romps ...

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Jack DeJohnette: Bill Evans Legacy

by Franz A. Matzner
December 7, 2020

Modern Drummer Hall of Fame inductee, drummer and pianist Jack DeJohnette has shaped jazz drumming for decades. A compatriot of illustrious players like Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, and many more, DeJohnette helped shape a new conception of what the drums could bring to ensembles, including adding color, detail, and fluid interplay. His contributions to the music are legendary and could fill volumes. Reinforcing this impact, Resonance Records has been releasing a series of never-before heard live recordings of ...