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Billy Lester: High Standards
by Richard J Salvucci
This is a very difficult recording to evaluate. If Billy Lester is living in Italy, the Italians are lucky. Someone has to be beyond sophisticated to pull off what Lester has done. He has, in essence, taken the GAS (Great American Songbook) and, with perhaps one exception, has improvised to the chord changes over the tunes. ...
Soft Machine: Floating World Live
by Glenn Astarita
Keyboardist Mike Ratledge's “The Man Who Waved at Trains" emerges as a highlight from Soft Machine's 2025 remastered album Floating World Live, representing a crucial period in the Canterbury legends' evolution during their pivotal era with guitar great Allan Holdsworth . Moreover, Drop (MoonJune, 2025), drawn from a 1971 concert, also receives the remastered treatment for ...
Julia Úlehla And Dàlava: Understories
by Neri Pollastri
Album molto particolare, questo della cantante, compositrice e artista multidisciplinare Julia Úlehla, oggi residente a Vancouver, studi in molti paesi del mondo (Italia inclusa), ma origini morave che qui mette a frutto in modo davvero singolare. Il programma prevede infatti in prevalenza rielaborazioni di canzoni popolari del paese della Moravia slovacca di cui era ...
Bob Dee's Cosmosis: New Moon
by Glenn Astarita
Bob Dee's Cosmosis releases New Moon as an instrumental album that explores modern creative jazz with soulful undertones. Led by guitarist and composer Bob Dee, the project features seven tracks that blend exploratory melodies with rhythmic depth, displaying the group's considerable technical abilities. The opener “Prajñā," sets a radiant tone with John Isley's luscious ...
Michael Dease: Flow
by Dan Bilawsky
Michael Dease is always on the go. A flurry of activity seems to surround the prolific trombonist, composer, bandleader, sideman, educator, and doubler. Yet he's always operating in the moment, never distracted by all of the spinning plates. Dease absolutely personifies the flow state, fully immersing himself in every one of his pursuits. This, his 11th ...
Dream Manifest
by Karan Khosla
Dream Manifest: Theo Croker's Studio Invocation Theo Croker is a trumpeter whose career zigzags across genres and continents earning Grammy nominations, platinum credits, and a reputation for erasing boundaries. With Dream Manifest, he pushes farther than before: a studio album built on layers, detail, and a spirit of relentless curiosity and collaboration. For this ...
Craig Taborn / Nels Cline / Marcus Gilmore: Trio Of Bloom
by Jack Kenny
The concept of a musical “supergroup" is hardly new. It could be argued that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's assembly at Massey Hall in 1953 was an early example. This legendary bebop concert, despite the undeniable talent on stage, famously showcased clashing egos, particularly with a less-than-healthy Bud Powell. Charles Mingus even had to re-record his ...
Satchmocracy: Satchmocracy vol. 2
by Richard J Salvucci
It is not easy to keep up with all the new jazz being recorded. It was perhaps easier in the 1950s or 1960s, when a couple of major labels did the bulk of the recording. An artist either made it that way or went unheard except in his or her hometown. For ...
Joseph Nowell: Themes and Variations
by Marco Iacoboni
In un panorama jazzistico spesso dominato da formazioni complesse, l'album per pianoforte solo di Joseph Nowell emerge come un'opera di raffinata intimità e profonda introspezione. Lontano dal virtuosismo fine a se stesso, questo lavoro si rivela un'esplorazione meticolosa del suono e della struttura, in un dialogo continuo tra composizione e improvvisazione. Pubblicato inizialmente in ...
Craig Taborn / Nels Cline / Marcus Gilmore: Trio Of Bloom
by Mike Jurkovic
Maelstroms come and maelstroms go, but the maelstrom generated by a pumped-up Marcus Gilmore on Ronald Shannon Jackson's “Nightwhistlers," the concussive kicker that jump-starts Trio of Bloom, holds its storm-warning, jazz-rocking, course. That guitarist Nels Cline--cranked by the spirit of Jimi Hendrix via Bill Frisell circa late '87; and keyboardist Craig Taborn (himself a modern acolyte ...
