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Pat Thomas Chris Sharkey Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths

Read "Know: Delirium Atom Paths" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

Delirium Atom Paths sounds exactly as one might hope, expect, or suspect the willing abandon of UK master innovator, keyboardist Pat Thomas, guitarist Chris Sharkey, and drummer Luke Reddin-Williams to sound like: a fearless dialogue of ideas without dogma, ambitions without greed, creation without regret. Captured live at Leeds at the big bang moment ...

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Keith Jarrett: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Read "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Keith Jarrett's affinity for the classics is well known. His solo piano and keyboard recordings in the genre include the music of Mozart, Shostakovich, Barber, Gurdjieff, Handel, Bartók, and others. The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is Jarrett's sweet spot with eight recordings--mostly two-disc sets--dominating his classical portfolio. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, features the work of ...

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Emiliano D'Auria Quartet feat. Luca Aquino: In-Equilibrio

Read "In-Equilibrio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Disco piuttosto tradizionale, che alterna momenti ora giocosi, come l'iniziale “Le cirque des regardes," ora malinconici, come “Sergej," ora più schiettamente lirici, come “In-equilibrio" e “Mindfullness," tali da mettere a frutto le qualità narrative dell'ospite Luca Aquino, ma anche quelle pianistiche del leader della formazione, Emiliano D'Auria. Le atmosfere vengono vivacizzate da un impasto di colori ...

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Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter: SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree

Read "SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

As Shakespeare said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter follow up their Grammy-nominated 2021 album, SuperBlue (Edition), with another sublime blend of jazz and groove. As on the first disc, jazz is represented by Elling, groove by Butcher Brown keyboardist DJ Harrison and drummer Corey Fonville. Hunter, who has had ...

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Adrián Demoč: Neha

Read "Neha" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

The last Adrián Demoč album release was Hlaholika (Another Timbre, 2021), featuring the title composition, which was one of Another Timbre's four “quarantine commissions" from different composers, commissioned at the beginning of the Covid 19 lockdown. Recorded in August 2020, that piece was played by five members of Apartment House, presumably because larger ensembles were not ...

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Artie Roth Quartet: Resonants

Read "Resonants" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert

Although composed during the Covid pandemic, the ten tracks on Artie Roth's Resonants give no ground to despair or gloom. Rather, the Toronto- based bassist aims for a more hopeful register here and, with the help of the sympathetic members of his fine quartet, he delivers. A strong lyrical sensibility and an ability to find a ...

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Jeb Patton: Preludes

Read "Preludes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

A jazz quintet performing eight classically-inspired Preludes and Duke Ellington's wistful “Prelude to a Kiss"? How could that possibly work? In the capable hands of pianist Jeb Patton (who wrote the Preludes) and his quintet, quite well, actually. Patton, who grew up in a household where listening to classical music was the norm, never forgot those ...

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Orrin Evans: The Red Door

Read "The Red Door" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

A most generous craftsman, composer and bandleader, pianist Orrin Evans never fails to bring out the best of whoever he chooses to create with. The Red Door is gratefully, and gracefully, no exception to that rule. Whatever musical setting Evans chooses to practice his sinewy, r'n'b inflected post-bop in--sideman, big band, trio, quartet, duo, ...

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John McLaughlin and Shakti: This Moment

Read "This Moment" reviewed by Dave Linn

by Dave Linn

John McLaughlin was known for his work with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) and with Tony Williams' Lifetime before forming his groundbreaking fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra. He then shocked people with his next project, John McLaughlin and Shakti, an acoustic fusion of the Carnatak music of South India combined with some Western influences. After ...

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Ivo Perelman: Reed Rapture in Brooklyn

Read "Reed Rapture in Brooklyn" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz

by Jeff Schwartz

Is this album fundamentally unreviewable? Are there jazz fans who do not immediately know if they need an 11-hour collection of 103 improvised duets between Ivo Perelman and a dozen saxophonists and clarinetists? It is at least describable. Perelman is faithful to his tenor, while his partners bring examples of nearly every type ...


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