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Vasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home

Read "Feels Like Home" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan

The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape ...

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Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil

Read "A Kiss for Brazil" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

A Kiss for Brazil is Kansas-bred Grammy-nominated singer Karrin Allyson's third release to feature Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio, Concord, 1999; Imagina, Concord, 2008), and her first to showcase Brazilian musicians: Vitor Gonçalves on piano and accordion, Rafael Barata at the drums, plus the acclaimed singer-guitarist and songwriter Rosa Passos. First-call New York-based guitarist Yotam ...

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Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog

Read "The Crazy Dog" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Bay area composer and saxophonist Raffi Garabedian is the descendent of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. These life defining events have had a major impact on family lore and on cultural expressions primarily in the form of literature. Garabedian draws inspiration from these oral and written stories to craft the cohesive eight part suite ...

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Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound To Out To Lunch Revisited

Read "Outward Bound To Out To Lunch Revisited" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Il valore incalcolabile dell'opera di Eric Dolphy sta passando un po' in secondo piano nel nostro tempo di ascolti rapidi e deconcentrati. Ben venga allora questa edizione, anche se rimane la perplessità dell'accorpare due dischi che pochissimo hanno in comune e che sono comunque ancora a disposizione negli ottimi originali. Dal 1960 al 1964 ...

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Yvonnick Prené & Geoffrey Keezer: Jobim's World

Read "Jobim's World" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

If there's such a thing as casual sophistication, Yvonnick Prené has it in spades. That aspect of this chromatic harmonica pro's playing has shown itself to varying degrees across his discography and it's highly pronounced in these gorgeous and intimate duo performances with pianist Geoffrey Keezer. After releasing Listen! (Sunnyside, 2023) to great ...

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Daniel Bennett: Mr. Bennett's Mind

Read "Mr. Bennett's Mind" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

In the grand saga of his tenth album as a leader, we tiptoe into the whimsical wonderland of saxophonist Daniel Bennett's mind. He does not just wield the saxophone; he also performs on the flute, clarinet, guitar and keyboard, all while basking in the fervent performances of his bandmates. From the saucy saxophone solos ...

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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Angular Tuesday

Read "Angular Tuesday" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra seldom pauses for breath on Angular Tuesday, its third album under director Tommy Poole. The ensemble enters as though shot from a cannon on Don Menza's frenzied “Time Check," and keeps on swinging and swaying through a lively program that encompasses sunlit compositions by Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer, Thad ...

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Camille Bertault, Paul Bertault: Songs For My Daughter

Read "Songs For My Daughter" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

La relazione musicale più durevole ed empatica di Camille Bertault è quella col padre Paul, pianista per passione e noto ingegnere del suono per professione. I suoi stimoli hanno motivato Camille verso il canto jazz e il piacere di accompagnare la figlia al piano non s'è mai interrotto. Quella partnership casalinga diventa ora pubblica ...

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Daniel Janke Winter Trio: Available Light

Read "Available Light" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Canadian pianist Daniel Janke calls the trio responsible for his Available Light the Winter Trio. The leader manages piano duties, accompanied by bassist Basile Racola and drummer Ariel Tessier. The inspiration for the name was Janke's home base, Whitehorse, Yukon, a city of thirty thousand hearty souls at sixty degrees north latitude, in the rain shadow ...

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Sean Fyfe: Stepping Stones

Read "Stepping Stones" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

In an era when the echoes of jazz legends resonate through the ages, pianist Sean Fyfe emerges as a torchbearer of the hard-bop tradition with his latest release Stepping Stones . This album is a testament to the power of collaboration, as Fyfe is joined by the dynamic ensemble of tenor saxophonist Dave O'Higgins, drummer Matt ...


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