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Vince Guaraldi: It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown
by Joshua Weiner
The winsome series of pianist Vince Guaraldi's soundtracks for the original Peanuts television specials is a gift from Lee Mendelson Film Productions that keeps on giving. Arriving just in time for “spooky season" is the premiere release of music from 1974's It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown, with three colored vinyl pressings unique to individual retailers (Urban ...
Andy Sheppard: Salt Catchers
by Neil Duggan
Since discovering John Coltrane as a teenager, tenor and soprano saxophonist Andy Sheppard has forged a remarkable career, earning multiple British Jazz Awards, international acclaim and even a place in the UK pop charts. His musical range is equally impressive: alongside jazz giants George Russell, Gil Evans and Carla Bley, he has worked with artists as ...
Ivan Valentini: Camera Funky
by Jack Bowers
Modena, Italy-based saxophonist Ivan Valentini's quintet traverses a wide range of styles on Camera Funky, from African-oriented themes to funk, rock, free and contemporary straight-ahead jazz. As Valentini wrote and arranged every number, the album's charisma rests for the most part squarely on his shoulders. Are those shoulders strong enough to carry the load? ...
Tara Minton: The Devil Invites You To Dance
by Neil Duggan
With themes from Aztec mythology and Latin American traditional dance, Tara Minton's The Devil Invites You To Dance follows a soul's journey through the underworld of shadows and desire. The Australian harpist, vocalist and composer wrote the album over two weeks in Mexico City's Coyoacán borough, immersing herself in its culture, music, street art and dance. ...
Michael Rabinowitz Jazz Quartet South: Reunion
by Jack Bowers
Although the words “jazz" and “bassoon" rarely appear in the same sentence, that is something North Carolina-based jazz bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz would like to help change. Yes, Rabinowitz is a jazz musician, and the bassoon is his instrument of choice, which must have led to some interesting conversations: “Hey, would you like to join ...
Irene Schweizer: Piano Solo: Prelude To A Kiss And More
by Mark Corroto
It might be a touch of hyperbole to say the world wasn't ready for Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer's 1986 recording Piano Solo: Prelude To A Kiss And More. Yet listening to it some 40 years later, that may well be your first thought. Schweizer (1941--2024) had already established herself as a formidable improviser through recordings such ...
WDR Big Band with Sean Jones: Jagged Edges Elegant Lines
by Pierre Giroux
The release Jagged Edges Elegant Lines: The Music of Ayn Inserto is hardly decorative. This live recording by the WDR Big Band, featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, presents an evening of Inserto's compositions that seem determined to keep two things going at once. First, the music can be angular, interrupted, and rhythmically unpredictable; second, it always has ...
Technocats: Passionata
by Jack Bowers
The Technocats are a Michigan-based co-op septet devoted for the most part to performing the music of fellow Michigander Gregg Hill, who composed every number on the group's 2026 recording, Passionata, including its sure-to-please “bonus" track, “Double Play." The first of Hill's compositions, “Normality," sets the enterprise in motion but in so doing lands ...
Psoas: Satori
by Neri Pollastri
Lo Psoas è un muscolo addominale che collega la colonna vertebrale alle gambe, responsabile dell'equilibrio e della deambulazione, che in alcune culture orientali viene considerato il “muscolo dell'anima" per le importanti funzioni che svolge a livello psicofisico. A esso ha scelto di dedicare il proprio nome questo trio milanese pianoless, che giunge al suo secondo lavoro, ...
Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier: Talamanti
by Mike Jurkovic
It is more than fair to say--right from the start of their kinship in early 2023, in the Sylvie Courvoisier 4 with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss--that there was something innate, and perhaps more importantly, intimate, between road-clearing pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and rascally vibraphonist Patricia Brennan. Talamanti proves that big time.
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