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Mark Turner: Grounded in a Spiritual World
This article first appeared in issue no 8 of Music & Literature Magazine.
I remember being at Berklee and listening to Mark in the practice room. A lot of people used to gather outside his practice room at various times and just listen to him. He would be in there ten hours a day, ...
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz
Fred Hersch
307 Pages
ISBN: #9781101904343
Crown Archetype Press
2017
Disclaimer #1: Like the author, I harbor a blood pathogen (he HIV, me Leukemia) that is intent on killing me.
Disclaimer #2: Being of similar ...
Bill Evans: Another Time: The Hilversum Concert
Un altro inedito di Bill Evans con Eddie Gomez e Jack DeJohnette, contenente un concerto dal vivo a Hilversum (Olanda) del giugno 1968, realizzato a 48 ore di distanza dalla seduta tedesca di Some Other Time. Complimenti alla Resonance per l'eccellente lavoro editoriale; giubilo per gli appassionati del pianista, che in poco tempo si ritrovano 3 ...
read moreRoxy Coss: Chasing the Unicorn
The title of the third, and latest release of New York based saxophonist Roxy Coss, Chasing the Unicorn (Posi-Tone, 2017), enables a vision that all artists embrace-that elusive and mythical state of total expression attained by only an elite few, that which not only presents beauty and passion to the universe, but is integrated into the ...
read moreOf Stories, Songs, and Self: Fred Hersch's Good Things Happen Slowly & Open Book
Most everything in Fred Hersch's oeuvre has always miraculously existed as slow read and page-turner all at once. The many phrases, songs, and albums spun from the mind and fingers of this highly expressive pianist-composer have been something to really take time with, to be savored and appreciated for their beauty and depth of creative thought. ...
read moreJoe Henderson: The Elements
Whatever era Henderson you champion or pine for--his dazzling side work with Horace Silver and Lee Morgan or, as a leader, the 60's defiant Inner Urge or Page One, the 70's fusion/funk explorer of Multiple or the revered elder statesman of his later years--The Elements delivers some damn fine head music. With its shifting atmospheres, dynamics, ...
read moreHard Boppin' at Smalls
Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village is a remarkably vibrant music venue that enjoys considerable international renown. It is not the most mannered of clubs with loud and boisterous audiences. Nor is it the most decorous, but does offer a rather distinctive look. The club has a great vibe and is committed to treating its audience ...
read moreBobby Hutcherson: The Kicker
It's unclear why Bobby Hutcherson's The Kicker wasn't released by Blue Note until 1999, despite being recorded
in 1963. The album is flawless as far as I can tell. It swings, it's engaging, the musicians on the session were spectacular and
there don't appear to be any instrumental errors or microphone snafus.
If I were guessing, I'd ...
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Kevin Hays / Lionel Loueke: Hope
New York/Paris-based Newvelle Records, the vinyl-only subscription label, is well into its second season of six planned releases. The second of these albums is the Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke duo outing, Hope. Pianist Hays plays with his namesake trio as well as the Bill Stewart Trio and has worked with Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Ron ...
read moreMoers Festival 2017
Moers Festival
Moers, Germany
June 5, 2017
Most questions and concerns regarding the present or future state of the Moers Festival could probably be answered just a few steps inside the staging grounds by looking at the smiling swarms.
At the same time last year, such a scenario was much ...
