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Jason Stein / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Five Nights in the Midwest
by Mark Corroto
Their tour did not pass through the Rattlesnake Speedway in the Utah desert. Still, the improvising trio of bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Damon Smith, and drummer Adam Shead conjure a similar sense of a gathering force, like the superstorm evoked in Bruce Springsteen's 1978 song “The Promised Land." “There's a dark cloud rising from the ...
Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan
by Jack Bowers
On Jackson Plays Dylan, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, an admirer of Bob Dylan, aims his jazz arsenal toward the iconic singer and songwriter in hopes of reworking Dylan's folk/pop music into a framework that jazz enthusiasts might consider creative and pleasing. So how does that play? For the most part, rather tediously, which is ...
Charles Tolliver: Right Now... And Then
by Andrew Schinder
While jazz fusion dominated the commercial jazz scene during the 1970s, beneath the surface many musicians eschewed current market trends, and continued to develop and push forward the hard bop, modal, and spiritual sounds established during the previous decade. Many of those artists recorded for Strata-East Records, the now-seminal label co-founded by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist ...
Living With Tollways: Eponymously Titled
by Glenn Astarita
Living With Tollways emerged from Chicago's South Side music scene, where multi-instrumentalist and educator Matt Riggen has spent years mentoring young players through improvisation and open collaboration. The chord-less trio--Riggen on double bass, Randy Trubitt on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, and Kevin Almazan on drums--draws directly from that environment. Their debut, Eponymously Titled, distills years ...
Tierney Sutton and Tamir Hendelman: Spring
by Pierre Giroux
There is a quiet courage in making an album like Spring, with just two seasoned musicians sitting with the material and letting it develop. In unsettled times, it feels almost revolutionary. Tierney Sutton has long understood that the heart of a song lies in its words. Here, she treats the lyrics as truths to be uncovered. ...
Barry Greene: Giants
by Jack Bowers
The Giants singled out by guitarist Barry Greene on his recording of that name include a number of musicians who served as role models and helped shape his singular musical voice. Pat Martino is one, as are Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Russell Malone and Pat Metheny, each one a stepping-stone on Greene's upward path toward self-identity ...
Jon Gold: Things Are Looking Up
by Jack Bowers
On Things Are Looking Up, California-bred pianist and composer Jon Gold uses a dozen able musicians in groups of various sizes from duo to quintet to add color and spice to his generally harmonic and accessible post-bop themes. Four of these themes are tributes to those who have influenced Gold musically or personally, and ...
Brew 4tet: Bell Movement
by Neri Pollastri
Formazione dal forte dinamismo e dai molti colori, il Brew 4tet vede le ance di Giuseppe Giroffi e il vibrafono di Gianluca Manfredonia dipingere scenari lirici, sostenuti dal contrabbasso di Luca Varavallo e dalla batteria di Alex Perrone. Le composizioni sono in prevalenze di Manfredonia (cinque su otto), ma la cifra, pur nella varietà, è comune ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!
by Mike Jurkovic
Pulitzer Prize-winning, MacArthur Fellow Dr. Tyshawn Sorey may not remember 1968 directly, since he was born in 1980, but he most certainly and unapologetically understands how angry that year was. And he has captured that fiery time with an epic reimagining? rethinking? rebooting? double take of Max Roach's epic telling of that year after the Summer ...
Laura Altman: Holy Trinity
by Hrayr Attarian
The Australian clarinetist Laura Altman is an innovative artist. Her third solo release is also her first, full-length, thematically unified one. It was recorded at the Holy Trinity Church in York. and is named after the venue. On it, Altman weaves haunting improvisations that resonate against a serene ambiance that she peppers with the sparse clutter ...
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