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Convergence: Reckless Meter
by Jack Bowers
Even though the contours and boundaries of jazz have been substantially altered and recast through the years, it is good to know that some aspects of America's classical music remain basically unchanged, especially the propensity to design and use melodic, harmonic and rhythmic concepts as a springboard for group interaction and personal improvisation. On Reckless Meter, ...
John Pizzarelli: Dear Mr. Bennett
by Pierre Giroux
John Pizzarelli has long been one of the most refined interpreters of The Great American Songbook, a musician who understands that this repertoire thrives not only on reverence but also on personality, swing, and storytelling. With Dear Mr. Bennett, Pizzarelli offers a heartfelt tribute to the incomparable Tony Bennett, whose phrasing, warmth, and commitment ...
Hannah Horton: Stories On The Wind
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Hannah Horton is a rising star on the U.K. jazz scene, for many good reasons. For Stories on the Wind, her third studio recording, Horton has written a series of eloquent and picturesque narratives, all of which she plays with an abundance of warmth and charm on tenor or baritone sax. Much of ...
Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan
by Pierre Giroux
With Jackson Plays Dylan, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson delves into one of the great sources of modern song, the work of Bob Dylan. He treats it with reverence, imagination, and a strong respect for jazz tradition. This is not a clever concept album but a heartfelt musician's dialogue with timeless material, influenced by tradition and deep ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Rosendals Garden
by Doug Collette
Rosendals Garden is yet another chapter in Yelena Eckemoff's ongoing historical narrative devoted to people and places both real and imagined. Recorded in 2024 at RMV Studio, Stockholm, Sweden, by engineer Linn Final, with mixing and mastering by Stefano Amerio, the audio is as colorful and detailed as the musicianship and the packaging. Remarkably, ...
Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus
by Vincenzo Roggero
Nato a Panama nel 1938, Carlos Garnett è stato sassofonista, compositore e bandleader, noto ai più per la partecipazione al classico On the Corner di Miles Davis, benchè le sue frequentazioni fossero sempre improntate all'eccellenza (Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus per citarne alcuni). Sull'onda del Davis elettrico, Garnett incide per la ...
Shawn Lovato: Biotic
by Troy Dostert
On his two previous releases, bassist Shawn Lovato revealed an inventive compositional approach that made excellent use of his ensembles. His debut, Cycles of Animation (Skirl Records, 2017), harnessed a formidable quintet while his sophomore effort, Microcosms, was more ambitious still, channeling his creative vision through a sextet format (ears&eyes Records, 2022). For Biotic, in contrast, ...
Paul Cosentino's Boilermaker Jazz Band: Everything is Jumpin'
by Jack Bowers
An Artie Shaw songbook with “Grabtown Grapple" and “Jumping on the Merry Go Round" but without “Begin the Beguine" or “Stardust?" Well, anything is possible. On Everything Is Jumpin'!, Paul Cosentino's six-member Boilermaker Jazz Band from western Pennsyvania pays tribute to the legendary clarinet maestro with new versions of 18 numbers recorded either by Shaw's Gramercy ...
Alexa Tarantino: The Roar and the Whisper
by Mike Jurkovic
If there is one true sound to describe the sound of luminous liberation, young veteran saxophonist/flautist/composer Alexa Tarantino captures it handily and shares it profusely with her band and everyone else within earshot of The Roar and the Whisper. Tarantino, whose star continues to flare via her ongoing gig at Jazz At Lincoln Center ...
Ona: Traces of Brazil Voices of Toronto
by Konstantin N. Rega
Jazz-classical crossovers are not so unique, but they can still mesmerize with their fluidity and breadth of sound. Traces of Brazil, Voices of Toronto by the Ona Ensemble is a short yet robust selection of tunes. Their style of Brazilian chamber jazz is not in your face; rather, it sits back and lets the listener glide in ...
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