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Marius Neset: Geyser
by Chris May
Geyser is Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset's third album with new-music ensemble London Sinfonietta. The piece was commissioned for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where this recording was made on September 3, 2022. As on the two previous albums, the Sinfonietta are joined by Neset's high-voltage jazz quintet with pianist Ivo Neame, vibraphonist Jim ...
Joe Pass: In Hamburg
by Jack Bowers
Blues, ballads, bossas, burners--it made no difference to the late Joe Pass, an uncompromising perfectionist who took them all in stride and was, if anything, almost too flawless to arouse in the listener an earnest emotional response. Listening to Pass, one quickly gains the impression that there wasn't anything he couldn't do--an impression that is borne ...
Shalosh: Tales of Utopia
by Mike Jurkovic
If we are the sum of the stories we riff to ourselves then podcast to others, then Tales of Utopia is a grand narrative by the Israeli trio of pianist/keyboardist Gadi Stern, double bassist David Michaeli and drummer Matan Assayag. Tales of Utopia, like the young, agile trio's 2020 album Broken Balance (ACT Records), ...
Emma Rawicz: Chroma
by Tom Spargo
There are only so many times that one can use phrases such as “emerging talent" or “upcoming star" before one must concede that the artist in question has in fact made it into the major league of jazz. With the August 2023 release of her second full-length album Chroma on the label ACT, this is precisely ...
Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty
by Mike Jurkovic
Anyone can be excused for making the early assumption that the vibrant elegance of Stormy Beauty is the effort of a well-travelled, veteran bassist and his trio. It is not. But it sounds as if it is. Strikingly concise, persuasive and effective, the young German bassist and composer Nils Kugelmann's debut is an eye-opening ...
Laila Biali: Your Requests
by Dan Bilawsky
While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential. Instead, it's the musicians who make it a point to communicate who tend to forge the strongest bonds with those on the receiving end. Laila ...
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles
By Theo Croker
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pinocchio/Milestones; Footprints; My Funny Valentine; So What; Miles Ahead Suite; Sketches of Spain Suite; Porgy and Bess Suite; All Blues.
