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Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: A Blue Time
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Joe Syrian's spit-shined Motor City Jazz Octet keeps driving emphatically forward on its second recording, A Blue Time, using an impressive arsenal to scurry through a generally agreeable lineup of more or less familiar themes that have been given fresh coats of paint by seven astute and talented arrangers. Even with the various ...
Richard Bliwas with Daniel Carter: Insomnia
by Mike Jurkovic
There is something very, very Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) about Insomnia, an ear-catching mind-bending excursion through the virtuosity, imagination, and humanness of pianist/drummer/synthesist Richard Bliwas and elder empath, saxophonist and free jazz mentor, Daniel Carter. Maybe the alluring title opener, or “Ottawa WaWa," and the most lucid “You Went Into A Mesmerizing Trance," ...
Billy Childs: Triumvirate
by Neil Duggan
Billy Childs earned a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album for his 2023 release The Winds Of Change (Mack Avenue Records). Triumvirate arrives as the follow-up. Accolades are not unusual for Childs. He holds six Grammys in total, along with numerous nominations, reflecting his exceptionally high standards both as a jazz pianist and classical composer.
Bobby Sanabria: Arsenio and Beyond
by Jack Bowers
Much of the music on Arsenio and Beyond was written by the trailblazing Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez, a master of the mandolin-like Cuban tres guitar who is credited among other innovations with creating the musical design that became known as son montuno. Rodriguez, drummer and bandleader Bobby Sanabria writes, was “the true Father of Mambo and ...
Nils Berg & Norrbotten Big Band: Paid To Cry
by Maciej Stasiowski
When faced with the trauma of loss, we stifle. Tears flow when the defense shields are eventually down or the dam is allowed to overflow with emotion. Crying out loud--pardon the pun--turns into a performance that comes with its own measures of mastery in feigning the lament for the screen or--as in the case of Nils ...
When I Return: The Weight of Bloom
by Daniel Mège
In an ample, John Coltrane-like gesture, the primordial song takes flight, ultimately culminating in the sublime “Part III: Rise." At this point, the sounds are capable of drawing us back to the beginning of the album. But let us rewind. When I Return is a septet whose singular voices met in the early 2020s ...
Boris Savoldelli: Extrasensorial Songs
by Neri Pollastri
Un vero e proprio esperimento artistico, questo Extrasensorial Songs di Boris Savoldelli: il cantante e compositore ha chiesto all'Intelligenza Artificiale di comporre dei testi ispirati alle modalità di scrittura di James Joyce e William Burroughs, dopodiché li ha utilizzati come ispirazione per una sessione musicale quasi interamente improvvisata, accompagnato da Stefano Zeni al violino e all'elettronica ...
Kenny Barron: So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon
by Andrew Schinder
By the mid-1990's, piano icon and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron had completed his transition from being a dependable, workhorse pianist-for-hire that elevated any group that had the good sense to engage him, to one of the most revered musicians in the business, and a living bridge between hard bop tradition and 21st century jazz modernity. ...
Ted Chubb: Live at The Statuary
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter, composer and educator Ted Chubb leads a blue-chip quintet on Live at The Statuary, recorded during four concert sessions in March 2025 at the historic Jersey City, New Jersey, site that Chubb co-owns with his wife, Rachel Ryll. This is wall-to-wall hard bop jazz wherein Chubb and his front-line partner, alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, tread ...
Emie R. Roussel: TERR
by Hrayr Attarian
Over a career spanning a bit more than a decade, award-winning Canadian pianist Emie R. Roussel has developed a unique style. It draws on both the Western classical tradition and jazz. Furthermore, her captivating music is a deft mix of exciting spontaneity and a poetic undercurrent. Her fourth release as a leader with her working ...
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