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Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet

Read "Sextet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Dopo un primo album in trio (2011) e un secondo in quartetto (2019), Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, il gruppo fondato da Tony Jones e Charlie Burnham (qui impegnato nei primi due brani anche alla voce) si amplia a sestetto per questo suo nuovo lavoro (inciso alla fine del 2023), evidenziando specificità di organico (e quindi timbriche e nel contempo dinamiche) assolutamente nuove, raddoppiando anzitutto i sassofoni tenore, che non disdegnano cavalcate a due voci di sicuro appeal (anche senza accompagnamento ...

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Album Review

Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet

Read "Sextet" reviewed by Thierry De Clemensat


Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness is a collective of musicians who stand among the most representative of the New York jazz scene in 2025. Initially formed as a quartet, the group was founded by Tony Jones and Charlie Burnham, two of the most captivating artists of the ensemble, who are later joined by Kenny Wollesen, Marika Hughes, Jessica Jones and Rashaan Carter. Given the group's initial configuration, it is evident that their music and compositions are not meant for ...

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Album Review

Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers

Read "Edible Flowers" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The Jessica Jones Quartet's Edible Flowers can be described as a pair of hot tenor saxophonists cranking things up and shouting out one freewheeling romp (or rant) after another. There is a structure to her tunes, but the improvisation slice of the pie is a big one. Saxophonist Jones is joined by her sax mate, Tony Jones, bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Deszon Claiborne in this “no chording instrument quartet." The group is reminiscent of Ornette Coleman's band of New ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Saxophonist Jessica Jones is on a Continuum

Read "Saxophonist Jessica Jones is on a Continuum" reviewed by UDEiGWE


Jessica Jones Quartet's latest album, Continuum, is the product of an earnest and organic execution of musical creativity. Continuum features Jessica Jones on tenor saxophone, tony Jones on tenor saxophone, Stomu Takeishi on bass, Kenny Wollesen on drums, Devante Dunbar on alto saxophone, Ed Reed on vocals, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, and Mamadou Sidibe on Kamali ngoni. Joins Jessica and me as we talk about the album, the Bay area, cats in Africa, and other not quite related topics. Playlist ...

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Album Review

Jessica Jones Quartet: Moxie

Read "Moxie" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Moxie is both an extension of tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones' previous work and a glimpse back to an earlier point in her career: she continues to explore the possibilities inherent in a piano-less quartet with a two-tenor front line while reuniting with a rhythm duo that she worked with in the '80s--bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Kenny Wolleson. The music that she makes here, with that team and fellow tenor/husband Tony Jones, is predictably unpredictable, grounded yet far-reaching, and irresistibly ...

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Jøkleba: Outland

Read "Outland" reviewed by Vic Albani


Jøkleba giunge al quinto capitolo della propria storia approdando finalmente sulle spiagge ECM. Il più imprevedibile dei gruppi della Norvegia contemporanea omaggia il trionfo dell'enfasi elettronica correlando il discorso musicale a quello (citato iconograficamente nel libretto di copertina) del pittore, compositore e scrittore elvetico Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) che passò oltre metà della propria vita in un ospedale psichiatrico. Il fiume musicale è ricco e minimalista. Parla di colore e pulsione, di collettivo e di ispirazione e sembra voler porre in ...

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Jessica Jones - Mark Taylor: Live at the Freight

Read "Live at the Freight" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Una formazione con il corno francese ci fa inevitabilmente tornare in mente John Graas, specialista di questo strumento rarissimo nel jazz e musicista che ha lasciato pochissimi eredi dopo la morte, avvenuta per infarto nel 1962, quando aveva solo trentotto anni. Tra i suoi continuatori c'è sicuramente Mark Taylor che in questo live dimostra una spiccata personalità, sia come strumentista in grado di fraseggiare con un bell'eloquio senza farsi imbrigliare nei toni ampi e aulici del corno francese, sia come ...


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