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Till Brönner; Pino Palladino, Blake Mills; Aki Rissanen & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 27, 2025

Enjoy a playlist packed with unbridled joy and energy! Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Till Brönner “Il trucido e lo sbirro" Italia (earMUSIC) 0:16 Host talks 4:59 Aki Rissanen “Glitch In The Heavens" Imaginary Mountains (Edition) 6:43 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills “What Is Wrong with You?" That Wasn't a Dream (Impulse!) 9:53 Host talks 14:08 LaMP feat. Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger, Ray Paczkowski “Cosmo" One of Us (Royal Potato ...

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Till Brönner: L'unica chance

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 13, 2025

Never one to rest on the laurels of his gorgeously burnished trumpet sound, German trumpeter Till Brönner is always chasing new ideas and fresh sources of inspiration. Lately, that search has brought him back to the country where he grew up and spent some of his formative years: Italy. The album Italia is the fruit of Brönner's collaboration with internationally acclaimed producer Nicola Conte. Together, they make a compelling case for Italian popular music as part of the ...

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Melody Gardot: Sunset in the Blue - The Deluxe Version

Read "Sunset in the Blue - The Deluxe Version" reviewed by William H. Snyder

by William H. Snyder
May 3, 2021

Henri Matisse, the master of the use of color, said, “Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue." Melody Gardot's Sunset in the Blue: The Deluxe Version shows its mastery, in both the color of its cover design and the execution of its musicianship. Back in the day, Matisse got in trouble with some art critics for his simile. Some listeners might have a similar reaction to Melody's music, but not all. Gardot's ...

Album Review

Melody Gardot: Sunset in the Blue

Read "Sunset in the Blue" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell
January 25, 2021

Melody Gardot emerged from her own smoky shadows of the mid-2000s as if she were some femme fatale emanating from a film noir movie. The plot twist was that she was the good girl, but it was her body that had been damaged in an auto accident. An extensive recovery followed. Her long, lean cane only reinforced her long, lean looks. The shades added just a touch of mystery. If there was anything positive, it was that she confronted the ...

Album Review

Nicola Conte: Other Directions

Read "Other Directions" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 22, 2019

Since debuting with the quintessential acid-jazz suite Jet Sounds on the Milan-based label Schema in 2000, the composer, arranger, producer and guitarist Nicola Conte has released another ten exquisitely beautiful albums exploring acid jazz, spiritual jazz, soul jazz and bossa nova, often all on the same disc. Conte also produces other artists and has curated rare-groove bossa nova compilations for Far Out and modal-jazz compilations for Blue Note and MPS. Everything he does is erudite and lustrous and certain to ...

Album Review

Till Brönner / Dieter Ilg: Nightfall

Read "Nightfall" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
October 1, 2018

Trumpeter Till Brönner is widely lauded in his native Germany and throughout Europe. He has had broad success not only as a jazz composer and musician but also in film music, pop and country genres. Brönner has recorded eighteen albums as a leader and worked with Monty Alexander, Dave Brubeck, Al Foster, Joachim Kühn, Nils Landgren, James Moody, Aki Takase, Ernie Watts and many other noteworthy artists. On Nightfall, he is paired with countryman and bassist Dieter Ilg whose sole ...