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Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Neil Duggan
When writing a review, an album receives intense, repeated listening. Once the review is completed, attention swiftly shifts to the next musical work. During breaks from critical listening, these albums remained favorites, enjoyed simply for the pure pleasure they brought. Albums by Oded Tzur (reviewed here) and Lynne Arriale (reviewed here) could also be added to ...
Bill Laurance and Michael League: Keeping Company
by Neil Duggan
Bill Laurance is one of the UK's most inventive pianists. His compositions and arrangements have involved multiple formats, including trios, duos, orchestras and solo piano, but he is best known as a member of the 19-piece jazz-funk-fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy. He joined the band at the invitation of their founder, U.S. multi-instrumentalist Michael League. They have ...
Lars Danielsson, John Parricelli and Verneri Pohjola: Trio
by Neil Duggan
Château Palmer is a wine estate in Margaux, in south-west France. Those that know about these things rate their wines as among the best anywhere in Bordeaux. If you are going to record a jazz album outside of the recording studio, then a light and airy wood-paneled salon at the château with French windows overlooking the ...
Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa: Inner Spirits
by Neil Duggan
They are probably not the most obvious pairing, but pianist Jan Lundgren from Sweden and guitarist Yamandu Costa from Brazil comprehensively prove that the obvious is not always the best. Their album, Inner Spirits, displays a rare kind of chemistry and mutual understanding that defines the concept of musical partnership. It is often the ...
Genera: Active Observation
by Neri Pollastri
Primo disco di Genera, trio di improvvisatori che arriva a questo traguardo dopo un lavoro di ricerca e di affinamento svolto in studio e dal vivo. La formazione è un tradizionale piano trio, “arricchito" timbricamente dall'uso, da parte del pianista Luca Venitucci, anche di melodica e sintetizzatore; accanto a lui, Dario Miranda al contrabbasso e Ermanno ...
Iiro Rantala HEL trio: Tough Stuff
by Neil Duggan
There has always been a hint of playfulness evident in the work of Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala. That was clear in his much-admired recordings with Trio Töykeät. That trio called it a day in 2006 after multiple worldwide tours and 20 years together. Since then, the multi-talented Rantala has been involved in a range of activities, ...
Daniel García Trio: Wonderland
by Mike Jurkovic
On their third release for Germany's ACT Music, pianist Daniel Garcia, bassist Reinier El Negrón and drummer Michael Olivera display in spades why they have moved to the fore of the fiery foment of Spain's spirited and trailblazing jazz scene with the imaginative and highly approachable Wonderland. Fired by eleven Garcia originals of expansive ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023
by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...
Stormy Beauty
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: About the Moment of Beginning; Unexpected Love; Symphony for the Rain; Finding Your Place; Late
Change; Stormy Beauty; Final Run; Wild Leaves Falling; Song for a Golden Blossom.
Your Requests
By Laila Biali
Label: Empress Music Group (North America) / ACT Music (Europe) / CORE PORT (Japan)
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; Blame It On My Youth; But Not For Me; My Funny Valentine; My Favorite Things;
Corcovado (Quiet
Nights of Quiet Stars); Pennies from Heaven; Autumn Leaves; The Nearness of You; All the Things You
Are.
