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Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State
by Jack Bowers
After spending years as a performer and educator, bassist Alex McLaughlin has recorded his first album, A Brand New State, on which he leads an able quartet whose front-line spokesperson is the renowned trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. At the insistence of its initiator and producer, drummer Ulysses Owen Jr., the album comprises eight of McLaughlin's original compositions, which was either a splendid idea or an unintended misstep, depending on one's point of view. As is true of most ...
Continue ReadingDayna Stephens: Closer Than We Think
by Jack Bowers
A few brief observations: first, New York-based Dayna Stephens is an excellent saxophonist. Second, the other members of his quartet on Closer Than We Think, Stephens' twelfth album as a leader, are similarly proficient. Third, Stephens clearly had a specific plan in mind before entering GB's Juke Joint to record the album in May 2023, one whose purpose, he writes, was to nurture a spirit of togetherness as an answer to today's divisive and fractured landscape. While ...
Continue ReadingJeremy Pelt, Darryl Yokley, Mason Razavi, Fred Hersch and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Jeremy Pelt, Darryl Yokley, Mason Razavi, Fred Hersch, Willie Morris, Tom Wakeling, Rick Roe, Theoretical Planets, Jessica Jones, David Ballis, Larry Vuckovich, Jacob Wutzke, Dan Moretti, Mark Grandfield, Jackson Potter, Joe Syrian, Michel Petrucciani, Allegra Levy, Arturo Sandoval, Harry Drabkin, Carl Allen, Judy Wexler and more. Playlist Jeremy Pelt “Rhapsody" from Woven (HighNote Records) 00:00 Darryl Yokley “Macondo Un Mundo" from En Soledad (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) 06:37 Mason Razavi “Even Keel" ...
Continue ReadingThe Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!
by Pierre Giroux
Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander head up a band called Heavy Hitters, which features a stellar cast of New York's jazz elite, including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Kenny Washington. They have released That's What's Up!, a live recording from Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver, British Columbia in December 2023 that captures the authenticity, spontaneity, and emotive power of a band firing on all cylinders. The set list is an artful blend of ...
Continue ReadingJeremy Pelt: Tomorrow's Another Day
by Alberto Bazzurro
L'avvio non è dei più incoraggianti, lambendo abbastanza pericolosamente la deriva dell'easy listening, ma poi, per fortuna, le cose migliorano e questo nuovo lavoro di Jeremy Pelt, virgulto ormai quarantottenne di certo “nuovo" jazz, riprende abbastanza convintamente la retta via. O meglio la strada maestra, perché è questo il nuovo verbo cui il trombettista californiano fa riferimento, glissando con una certa disinvoltura su tutto quanto avvenuto dopo (o attorno a) l'epoca aurea di suoi colleghi di strumento quali Clifford Brown, ...
Continue ReadingHeavy Hitters: That's What's Up!
by Jack Bowers
Heavy Hitters is a superb New York-based sextet co-led by pianist Mike LeDonne and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. Individually and as a team, the Hitters keep their eyes squarely on the ball, swing for the fences and, more often than not, slam the spheroid solidly out of the park. And on this typically upbeat session they do it in front of an appreciative audience at Frankie's Club in Victoria, British Columbia. A freewheeling groove permeates the concert, ...
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