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Mark Masters: Sam Rivers 100
by Jack Bowers
Sam Rivers 100 is the first of two homages recorded in 2023-24 by arranger Mark Masters and his blue chip southern California-based ensemble. This one pays tribute to the music of the late saxophonist Sam Rivers on the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! salutes the music of tenor saxophonist Billy ...
Ginetta's Vendetta: Fun Size
by Richard J Salvucci
Sometimes, it is best to ignore a recording's graphics and just concentrate on the music. This is really the case with Ginetta's Vendetta Fun Size which well-intentioned or not, is apt to lead to a double entendre misunderstanding. Ginetta Minichiello may be short of stature, coming in at 5 feet (1.5 meters) ...
James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note, March 26, 2005
by Jack Bowers
When it comes to having fun, few events can compete with a birthday party. Fun is clearly at the summit of the agenda on 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note, recorded at the famed New York City nightspot on March 26, 2005, to celebrate saxophonist James Moody's eightieth birthday, and released on the same ...
Ryan Truesdell: Shades Of Sound
by Pierre Giroux
Ryan Truesdell's Shades of Sounds: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 is a triumphant continuation of his lovingly curated Gil Evans Project--a musical venture focusing on both preservation and revelation. With this latest volume, Truesdell guides us through Evans' well-known sonic landscape and deeper into the vaults, unearthing four never-before-recorded arrangements that offer ...
Enrique Thompson & Revirado Project: Song for Someone - Canción para Alguien
by La-Faithia White
Enrique Thompson is a saxophonist, composer and producer whose music bridges jazz, tango and global influences. His early exposure to classical music, Argentine folk traditions, Latin American sounds and artists like The Beatles and Joan Manuel Serrat shaped his eclectic musical identity. Born in the Argentine countryside, at 10 years old he began playing saxophone and, ...
Matthias Müller / Andreas Willers: Matthias Müller / Andreas Willers
by Glenn Astarita
Matthias Muller and Andreas Willers craft a bold sonic adventure with their improvised soundscapes, rooted in Berlin's vibrant experimental scene. Muller wields his trombone not for traditional melodies but for sonic exploration, coaxing out breathy whispers and guttural growls. Willers answers with an electric guitar that dances between delicate, spidery lines and distorted noise. Together, they ...
Phi-Psonics: Expanding to One
by Andrew Hunter
Expanding to One, Phi-Psonics' third album, was recorded over six live sessions in front of a small audience in a record shop in Pasadena, with the core quartet of Seth Ford-Young (leader and bass), Josh Collazo (drums) Sylvain Carton (sax and flute) and Randal Fisher (sax) supplemented by 11 additional musicians including Jay Bellrose (recently heard ...
Champian Fulton: At Home
by Richard J Salvucci
Champian Fulton is just fun to hear, no question. There are so many singers and, Heaven knows, even more pianists, so finding one who never really disappoints is no small feat, especially after nearly 20 recordings. Paired here with Stockholm-based reed player Klas Lindquist, Fulton sings and plays her way through various 'songbook' material that bubbles ...
Ed Palermo: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
by Jack Bowers
Well, if it walks like a big band and talks like a big band...chances are it's a big band, even though, in the case of Ed Palermo's New York-based 18-piece ensemble, it neither walks nor talks much like any other big band on planet earth. On Prog Vs. Fusion, Palermo casts aside many established harmonic principles ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
by Frank Housh
New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style. Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz's siren song. Her first four albums: Obsession (Sony Music, 2011), Incomplete Soul (Sony Music, ...
