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Siril Malmedal Hauge & Kjetil Mulelid: I Remember Oranges
by John Eyles
Norwegian jazz pianist and composer Kjetil Andre Mulelid was born on February 4th 1991, in Hurdal, Norway. In 2014, he completed his studies at the Jazz program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Thereafter, he has been active with such bands as Kjemile, Wako and others, as well as his own work with ...
Chris Potter: Alive With Ghosts Today
by Kevin Poindexter
The history of America is haunted by ghosts of the past. These ghosts transform our present-day landscape, our everyday lives, and inform the very core of our existence. On Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition Records, 2026), saxophonist Chris Potter steps away from the normal high-adrenaline jazz that has signified his recent outings and has instead put together a ...
Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch: Feebles, Fables And Ferns
by Neil Duggan
Feebles, Fables and Ferns captures a rare duo session between guitarist Mick Goodrick and pianist Fred Hersch. Recorded in August 1988 at Hersch's studio in New York, the album provides an intimate display of the superbly matched improvisational skills of two musicians in full flight. During his career, Goodrick perfected the art of avoiding ...
Elsa Nilsson: Liminal
by Mike Jurkovic
If, for just 52 minutes, one needs to step away from the breach, do not hesitate to push play on Liminal. A Brooklyn conceptualist by way of Sweden and Seattle, Andetag" (Swedish for breath") opens flautist/composer Elsa Nilsson's Liminal. But, all things considered, it could have been sequenced anywhere in the playlist given Nilsson's nod ...
Christine Fawson: It Could Happen to You
by Jack Bowers
A trumpet player who sings or a singer who plays trumpet? Christine Fawson puts those questions to the test (again) on It Could Happen to You, the fifth recording under her leadership, playing trumpet and singing on every one of the album's 11 carefully-mined selections from the Great American Songbook. The obvious answer is that Fawson ...
Alex Wintz: Collage
by Joshua Weiner
Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex Wintz is not only a frequent performer, both with his own group and with artists such as the trumpeters Etienne Charles and Jeremy Pelt and trombonist Nick Finzer, but also an educator on the faculty of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jazz for Teens program and a clever composer. Collage features six ...
Eli Howell: Steps Taken
by Jack Bowers
Picture this: Having assembled a supporting cast, finalized the playlist and booked a studio, you are ready to make the debut recording as leader of your own ensemble, only to learn that, hours earlier, said studio in East Lansing, Michigan, had been devastated by a tornado. That is exactly what happened to trombonist Eli Howell in ...
Dawn Clement: Dear Ms. Dearie
by Paul Rauch
In giving this album a listen, it is difficult not to jump between the original recordings of the great Blossom Dearie, and those newly recorded by modern-day pianist/vocalist Dawn Clement. After all, those who have followed Clement's career have heard the comparisons between the two, particularly the vocal style that those critiquing Dearie referred to as ...
Satoko Fujii-Myra Melford: Katarahi
by Doug Collette
The connection(s) between pianist-composers Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford transcend the usual truisms. Not kindred spirits in creativity or even mirror images in technique, the pair are more like twin sisters of different artistic mothers, distinctly their own individuals in style yet complementary as such in almost ineffable ways. Hence this album title, a Japanese term ...
Irene Giuliani: Paracadute
by Marco Iacoboni
Con Paracadute (Barly Records) la pianista, cantante e compositrice Irene Giuliani presenta un esordio discografico in trio che bilancia sapientemente il rigore tecnico con una distintiva leggerezza espressiva. L'album si impone per il suo approccio programmaticamente ottimista e per le sue geometrie sonore, che sfruttano al meglio la dinamica che si crea innestando la voce cantata ...


