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The Electric Years Box Set

Label: Columbia Records / VMP Anthology
Released: 2023

Article: Live Review

Litchfield Jazz Festival The Frederick Gunn School Washington CT July 28 to July 30, 2023 It's fitting that a festival set in a location as venerable-sounding as the Litchfield Hills deeply respects tradition. That commitment starts with the music styles it presents. While the Litchfield Jazz Festival isn't averse to going ...

Article: Live Review

William Parker New Heart Trio at The Chapel

by Roy Strassman
May 24, 2023

William Parker New Heart Trio The Chapel San Francisco, CA May 15, 2023 William Parker is a free jazz phenom, as his current New Heart Trio heartedly demonstrated. Accompanied by the legendary William Hooker on the drum set and firebrand Isaiah Collier on tenor saxophone and hand percussion, Parker, attired in ...

Article: Interview

Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
May 22, 2023

Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has a long, ongoing association with the Mingus Big Band organization, including a Grammy for Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music, 2010). His career also includes a special relationship with trumpeter Tom Harrell, with whom he has played for many years. All that is enough to ...

Article: Journey into Jazz

Record Store Day 2023 Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 13, 2023

Record Store Day, which started in 2007, is a biannual event designed to promote independent record stores. Every Record Store Day drop features limited-edition vinyl releases in practically every genre of music. The releases, however, are offered on a limited basis, and they are available for one time only. As a result, collectors often wait in ...

Article: Liner Notes

Steve Davis: Correlations

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 21, 2023

Surely it must be considered a milestone to chalk up Correlations as Steve Davis' 20th session as a leader. Just contemplate how much the world has changed since the trombonist started turning heads as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers back at the start of the '90s. The record business in particular occupies a vastly ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 That's What Happened 1982-1985

Read "The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 That's What Happened 1982-1985" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 19, 2023

Eventually the steam roller that is the Miles Davis Bootleg Series was going to trundle into the trumpeter's 1980s comeback era. The preceding six volumes in this series have all been uniformly excellent--essential listening for the Davis completist. Volume 7, however, does not reach those heights. It is an uneven bag, much like Davis's 1980s output ...

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Reflections

By Al Foster

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. "T.S. Monk" 2. "Pent-Up House 3. "Open Plans" 4. "Blues on the Corner" 5. "Anastasia" 6. "Six" 7. "Punjab" 8. "Beat" 9. "Alone and I" 10. "Half Nelson" 11. "Monk's Bossa"

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Out and Out Jazz

By Arkadia Jazz All-Stars

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cram ‘N Exam, White Caps, Fast Forward, Still Life, Airegin, Windsong, Pulp, Shadows and Light, James Eagle Eye, High Tea for Stephany, Encounter

Article: Multiple Reviews

Tony Williams and Al Foster: Give The Drummers Some

by Doug Collette
September 21, 2022

Are drummers the most colorful members of the jazz community? Certainly as the keepers of the beat, the bands in which they play rotate around them, whether they are at center stage or off to the side in performance or behind baffles right alongside them in the studio. And the assertive and authoritative likes of such ...