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The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive
by Jack Bowers
Receptive is the third album as leader of the Sofia Goodman Group by Nashville, Tennessee-based drummer and composer Goodman, following 2018's Myriad of Flowers and 2023's Secrets of the Shore, both on Joyous Records. As on those earlier recordings, Goodman shows her compositional skills with a series of mostly meditative and personal themes designed to entice an audience while enlivening and amplifying her able sextet. The results are mixed, with moments of vibrance and charm countered by ...
Continue ReadingRyan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness
by Jack Bowers
Nashville-based composer, arranger and saxophonist Ryan Middagh salutes apostles of the mid-range wind instrument on Tenor Madness, his second recording as leader of the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. Even so, there are no tenor solos after the first three of the album's half-dozen numbers, on which tenors Don Aliquo and Jeff Coffin ("Wiley Roots"), Aliquo again ("Waiter, Make Mine Blues"), Coffin and New York luminary Joel Frahm--who together galvanize the album's robust title song--are featured. While the ...
Continue ReadingJohn Alvey: Loft Glow
by Chris May
Such is the proliferation of albums which in the 2020s are taking jazz in new and exciting directions--see AAJ's Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition round-up here--that it is easy to pass over albums which have their feet firmly planted in the tradition, and which show no ambition to redefine it, but which are by any standards fresh and first-class jazz. Such an album is Nashville-based drummer John Alvey's debut, Loft Glow. On this love ...
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