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Jake Leckie: The Abode

Read "The Abode" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Bassist Jake Leckie, born in Boston but currently living in Los Angeles, describes the eight songs on this, his first album, as “a meditation on migration, understanding and empathy." He says they pay tribute to the people and places that have contributed to his identity and are intended to evoke a sense of place and home--his ...

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Article: Album Review

The Comet Is Coming: Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Read "Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery" reviewed by Chris May


In 2018, saxophonist and clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings' Sons Of Kemet became the first British band to be signed to the canonical US label Impulse. That partnership has now been augmented with the futuristic trio The Comet Is Coming, in which Hutchings goes under the alias King Shabaka. Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery is ...

Article: Album Review

Peter McEachern Trio: Bone Code

Read "Bone Code" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il veterano trombonista del Connecticut Peter McEachern dedica questo bell'album in trio all'illustre collega Roswell Rudd, scomparso sei mesi dopo la sua incisione (dicembre contro giugno 2017). Per farlo si accompagna a due prime firme di basso e batteria quali Mario Pavone, con cui vanta un rapporto quasi quarantennale, e Michael Sarin, incontrato invece nei primi ...

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Article: Under the Radar

Women in Jazz, Part 1: Early Innovators

Read "Women in Jazz, Part 1: Early Innovators" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


"Lil Hardin [Armstrong]...often imagined herself standing...at the bottom of a ladder, holding it steady for Louis as he rose to stardom." (Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, 2012). “The all-female band is an anomaly in music, one that must constantly prove itself as a 'band,' and not just 'girls playing music together.'" (Mary Ann Clawson, 1999). Everything ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bass Is the Place!

Read "Bass Is the Place!" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Where do rhythm and harmony intersect? Where do you feel the beat, not just with your ears but your whole body? Bass is the place where it all comes together. This week we celebrate some beloved jazz bass players, from riveting soloists to groundbreaking composers and consummate sidemen. Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme ...

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Article: Year in Review

2018: The Year in Jazz

Read "2018: The Year in Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...

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Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros Studio Recordings

Label: Real Gone Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD1: Spiritual Eternal; Wisdom Eye; Los Caballos; Om Supreme; Morning Worship; Spring Rounds; Govinda Jai Jai; Ganesha; Prema Muditha; Hare Krishna. CD2: Om Namah Sivaya; Radhe-Shyam; Vindavana Sanchara; Transcendence; Sivaya; Ghana Nila; Bhaja Govindam; Sri Nsrimha.

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Article: Album Review

Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II

Read "Perspectives II" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


The spiritual jazz tradition, as exemplified by John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, has been having a resurgence over the past few years in places like Los Angeles and Great Britain. Now here is evidence that some musicians in New Orleans are going down that path as well. Billie Davies is a drummer from Belgium ...

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Article: Album Review

Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros Studio Recordings

Read "Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros Studio Recordings" reviewed by Chris May


The most arcane albums in Alice Coltrane's catalogue are not, as is widely supposed, the post-Impulse! mid-1970s discs collected on Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros Studio Recordings. They are instead a series of cassettes Coltrane released in limited editions on her Avatar label during the 1980s and early 1990s, when she had retired from the ...

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Maisha: There Is A Place

Read "There Is A Place" reviewed by Chris May


The London jazz scene, which is in 2018 more active and characterful than it has been since the jazz-dance movement of the 1980s, offers up another jewel with this debut physical-release by spiritual-jazz septet Maisha. The band, led by drummer Jake Long, surfaced in 2016 with the download-only live album Welcome To A New Welcome (Jazz ...


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