Jazz Articles about Tyrone Allen II

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Sullivan Fortner: Leave That In There

Read "Leave That In There" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 28, 2026

Sullivan Fortner has never been an artist short on ideas. But Leave That In There feels different. It is the sound of a musician who has distilled everything he has absorbed from his deep well of Gulf South upbringing, from the piano giants and from spirituals and street parades, into his own language. It is easily his most personal record to date, a musical scrapbook of memories, ancestry, humour, grief, and resilience. The title draws on Spike Lee's ...

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Sullivan Fortner: Leave That In There

Read "Leave That In There" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
July 17, 2026

Pianist Sullivan Fortner is on a roll. Already one of the most respected contemporary jazz pianists, Fortner leveled up in 2025 with the Grammy-winning Southern Nights (Artwork Records, 2025), a tribute to his New Orleans heritage that was a critical and commercial smash. Along with the collaboration albums Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition Records, 2024) (with vocalist Kurt Elling) and Play (ACT Music, 2025) (with trumpeter Theo Croker) and playing to packed houses both as a leader and accompanist, the year was an unqualified success. ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!

Read "Members... Don't!" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 24, 2026

One of the most welcome developments in twenty-first century jazz has been drummer Tyshawn Sorey's enthusiastic turn toward the jazz canon. While he had already established himself convincingly as one of the premier figures in creative music on immersive, challenging works such as The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi Recordings, 2016) and Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017), when Sorey decided to begin his idiosyncratic interrogations of classic jazz repertoire it opened up new facets of his musical identity, especially as an ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!

Read "Members... Don't!" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 7, 2026

Pulitzer Prize-winning, MacArthur Fellow Dr. Tyshawn Sorey may not remember 1968 directly, since he was born in 1980, but he most certainly and unapologetically understands how angry that year was. And he has captured that fiery time with an epic reimagining? rethinking? rebooting? double take of Max Roach's epic telling of that year after the Summer of Love, Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968) Recorded live at the tail end of a four-day stay at the Jazz Gallery ...

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Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Read "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 23, 2026

Nel suo nuovo album per l'etichetta Savant la sassofonista Nicole Glover conferma la scelta del formato pianoless col bassista Tyrone Allen II e il batterista Kayvon Gordon. L'unica variazione riguarda l'ospite che non è più il vibrafonista Steve Nelson ma il violoncellista Lester St. Louis, aggiunto in un paio di brani. Alcune diversità si aggiungono nelle scelte stilistiche, esemplificate forse dal titolo (che riprende quello dell'autobiografia di Carl Gustav Jung, il noto psicoanalista svizzero): a differenza del precedente (estroverso e ...

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James Danderfer: If Not Now

Read "If Not Now" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
November 12, 2025

Clarinetist James Danderfer's If Not Now showcases warmth and craftsmanship. It is the kind of album that affirms jazz's enduring ability to blend tradition with personal expression. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's legendary Englewood Cliffs studio on November 4, 2024, the album features a select group including Steve Davis on trombone, Cory Weeds on tenor saxophone, Atley King on vibraphone, Miki Yamanaka on piano, Tyrone Allen II on bass, and drummer Kush Abadey. All nine compositions are by Danderfer, forming ...

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James Danderfer: If Not Now

Read "If Not Now" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 9, 2025

The clarinet, which once was commonplace in jazz (think Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Pee Wee Russell, Tony Scott, Buddy DeFranco, Jimmy Giuffre, Pete Fountain, Bob Wilber and many others), is all but absent these days save for a handful of adamant diehards such as Paquito D'Rivera, Eddie Daniels, Don Byron and Ken Peplowski. That is one reason why it is always a pleasure to welcome a new voice into the choir, especially one as sharp and talented as ...