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Bill Evans: In Norway
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Bill Evans' career lasted from the late 1950s until his passing in 1980, but beginning around about 20 years into the 21st century CD releases under Evan's name have been rolling along at a brisk clip, thanks to the Resonance, Elemental and Ess- thetics Record labels. Zev Feldman, often called “The Jazz Detective," has played ...
Gil Evans Remembered: Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)
by Jack Kenny
Few people have a better right to remember Gil Evans than these musicians. The serrated wail of this band enraptured, touched and torched the listeners. It is easy to see why musicians from the Monday Night Band would want to play, creating under Evans' beatific musical vision. It must have been inspiring. Most of the musicians ...
Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights on a Satellite
by Joshua Weiner
As befits a being whose life encompassed much of the Solar System, from his origins on Saturn to his long earthly sojourn that ended in 1993, Sun Ra composed, played and recorded an astronomical panoply of musical styles across six decades. Lights On A Satellite, a new double album released by Germany's In+Out Records, presents a ...
Kresten Osgood Quintet: Live At H15 Studio
by Mark Corroto
For a reader of contemporary fiction, sometimes you wade through some fine literature with skillful writing by authors who have honed their craft but have failed to give you a plot. Then, some books tell stories that seize your imagination. You can't put them down. There is a parallel occurrence in modern jazz. There are virtuous ...
Café: Café
by Richard J Salvucci
Reviewing an archival album is always a challenge. To do something justice is a matter of both gaining and losing perspective: to hear it as an audience first did, and then, presumably, to find its influence, if consequential. Verifying a band's authenticity is usually not difficult but Café presents just such a problem. Its single release ...
Daniel Sommer / Arve Henriksen / Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences
by Nenad Georgievski
Danish drummer Daniel Sommer's Sounds & Sequences is the second part of his Nordic Trilogy, a captivating project that aims to explore the breadth and depth of Nordic improvisation across three distinct ensembles. This follow-up to As Time Passes continues Sommer's commitment to presenting different facets of Nordic music, while avoiding any repetition of sound or ...
B.B. King: In France: Live At The 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival
by Ian Patterson
By the time B.B. King arrived in France in the autumn of 1977 he could already reflect upon a good year. After a string of misfiring crossover albums, the Indianola blues musician had returned to studio form with the mostly straight-ahead blues of King Size (ABC, 1977). An invitation to Yale saw King become only the ...
Tiziano Tononi, Emanuele Parrini: Other Interactions... On July 5th
by Neri Pollastri
Non sbagliano un colpo Emanuele Parrini e Tiziano Tononi: forti di mille collaborazioni, dopo The Many Moods of Interaction, il loro lavoro in duo di un paio di anni orsono, adesso allargano le interazioni e la formazione, accogliendo il contrabbasso di Andrea Grossi, il sax soprano di Roberto Ottaviano e il trombone di Steve Swell, regalandoci ...
Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 1
by Alberto Bazzurro
Aperto e chiuso da brani a firma di due dei compagni di viaggio di Gato Barbieri in questo inedito (in studio, il che ha del sorprendente) della primavera 1968, rispettivamente Giovanni Tommaso e Franco D'Andrea, il disco in oggetto è innegabilmente pervaso dall'ombra lunga di Miles Davis (i due temi-cardine di Kind of Blue, più “Nardis" ...
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 ...
