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Tingvall Trio: Birds
by Neil Duggan
There seems to be a strong desire to place music into a defined category: swamp blues, emo rap, indie-folk etc. Sometimes this can be useful, but occasionally an artist comes along who can blur those boundaries and be successful in many areas. One example would be Ludovico Einaudi, who has opened up classical music to many, ...
Vicente Archer: Short Stories
by Mike Jurkovic
Bassist Vicente Archer may be a Grammy winner with a long grand vintage (Nicholas Payton, John Scofield, Kenny Garrett, Norah Jones) but he has not revealed his own particular harvest as he does on the amicable and resilient Short Stories. Accompanied on what is technically his debut, fellow Scofield and Payton alum, drummer Bill Stewart and ...
Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Beatrice Arrigoni: Songs And Poems
by Neri Pollastri
Album che sconvolge le linee di demarcazione tra generi e stili, Songs and Poems vede all'opera il trio Blend 3 del contrabbassista e compositore Andrea Grossi (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del precedente CD Lubok), al quale si aggiunge la voce di Beatrice Arrigoni, negli ultimi tempi molto attiva in progetti trasversali e innovativi. Il ...
Tim Lin: Empathy
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Tim Lin, still fresh enough on the scene to be described as a “young lion," tips his horn to a number of his mentors on Empathy, his second album as a leader, following 2021's Romance on Formosa. As on that earlier album, Lin, a first generation Taiwanese-American (from Fremont, CA), has chosen a charming blend ...
Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Continuing
by Karl Ackermann
Tyshawn Sorey listeners who were weaned on his Pi Recordings, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (2016), Verisimilitude (2017), and Pillars (2018), were probably unprepared for the swinging trio outing Mesmerism (Pi, 2022). With the multi-instrumentalist Sorey on drums, Aaron Diehl on piano and Matt Brewer on bass, the group delivered one of the best piano trio ...
The Rob McConnell Sextet: Old Friends / New Music
by Pierre Giroux
Rob McConnell was a valve trombonist, arranger, composer and leader of the big band called the Boss Brass, which set a new standard for jazz writing through the use of complex passages and close section harmony, and in 1983 won a Grammy. In this digital-only release by Cornerstone Records, McConnell leads a sextet comprised of Guido ...
The Cry: The Cry
by Mike Jurkovic
Like a seance, the French improvising trio of pianist Christine Ott, keyboardist Mathieu Gabry and drummer/percussionist Pierre-Loïc Le Bliguet, collectively calling themselves The Cry, manage to seep into one's crowded consciousness with an ethereal language spoken before, but just not quite like they speak it on their eponymous debut outing. Is it jazz? Who ...
Clifford Jordan: Drink Plenty Water
by Dave Linn
In August 1974, Clifford Jordan entered the studio for what was to be the follow-up to his acclaimed 2-LP set, Glass Bead Games (1973) for his third album on the Strata-East label. Sadly, the label folded in 1975, and the album was never released. Now, 49 years later, Drink Plenty Water, has finally seen the light ...
Matt Peterson: Better Worlds
by Hrayr Attarian
Chicago pianist Matt Peterson is a versatile artist who defies genres. He is both an accomplished, bop-based improviser as well as a sensitive interpreter of the Western classical tradition. Both elements of his style come together on the exuberant and captivating Better Worlds, a collection of 10 of his originals as well as a unique arrangement ...
Vlatko Stefanovski: Greatest Hits
by Nenad Georgievski
Guitarist and songwriter Vlatko Stefanovski has led a life of constant artistic evolution. Not standing still has served him well and given us a corpus of works in which no two are the same. The material on this Greatest Hits record encompasses the period between 1994 and 2021, when he launched his solo career following the ...
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