Jazz Articles about Joel Newton

About Joel Newton

Album Review

Peter Furlan Project: Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar

Read "Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 20, 2026

The third album by the Peter Furlan Project, the New York-born and based saxophonist's splendid nonet, was recorded Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar in Nyack, NY, on June 20-21, 2025. The concert's nine numbers, all written and arranged by Furlan, travel along a conventional straight-ahead path whose sunny melodic and harmonic byways allow ample room for close group interaction and one or more resourceful solos by every member of the ensemble. While that may be enough ...

Multiple Reviews

Guitarists in the Age of Isolation

by Geno Thackara
July 14, 2022

The Joel Newton Situation New Now Self Produced 2022 Since the first year of Covid had left everyone suddenly making music alone, of course it was inevitable that the trend of isolation albums would eventually give way to the out-of-isolation album as the world moved into partial circulation. For the Joel Newton Situation, that turns out to be more of a halfway step than a full revival. After Out Of and Into (Self Produced, 2020) ...

Album Review

Joel Newton Situation: Out Of and Into

Read "Out Of and Into" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
January 28, 2021

If Joel Newton was stuck at home in isolation during the time of Covid, his imagination apparently never got the message. Exploration and travel still make a bright and refreshing theme on this largely solo affair. Thankfully the feel of adventure and open trails has not left him; Out Of and Into has his guitar work sounding fun and as jaunty as ever, even in a context noticeably smaller than usual. Doing the one-man-band thing at home is ...

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Joel Newton Situation: Crying and Laughing

Read "Crying and Laughing" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
December 7, 2007

How about this--a band that works together regularly, playing music that is an astounding mix of free and composed with dashes of dance, minimalism and group improvisation? Guitarist Joel Newton is the composer here, and he has done up half-a-dozen ways for his band members to show off their best stuff as well as to give life to his rich creations. Let us direct listeners first to the gorgeous “New Day. It's a hymn, it seems, to ...