Jazz Articles about Michael Moore

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Album Review

Bob Brookmeyer: Live at Sandy’s

Read "Live at Sandy’s" reviewed by Sam Sherry

by Sam Sherry
September 7, 2024

What if a tree fell in the woods, and no-one heard? More to the point, what if, for one weekend, four Guys With Ties wrote the book about how play jazz that balances drive with subtlety, improvisational joy with compositional intelligence, self-awareness with musical wit--and what if the record was released on the You'll Never Hear About It label? Well, that happened this time. For better and for worse, decades later this disc still is news. It's an ...

Album Review

Zlatko Kaućić: Morning Patches

Read "Morning Patches" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 4, 2019

Is there another dimension beyond the 3rd? Past length, breadth, and depth? And if so, can we perceive this fourth dimension? We're talking about sound and where a decent set of speakers creates an imagined material sound space. When you tap into a recording like Morning Patches from the Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič's Quintet, there appears to be something apart from the classically observed three dimensions. Maybe it is the space in which the recording took place, St. Martin's Church ...