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Mayo, Ramamurthy, Fedchock, Novoa And More
by Bob Osborne
A selection of brand new jazz releases kicks off with a wonderful vocal performance from Los Angeles based Michael Mayo. The debut on Greenleaf from Arun Ramamurthy Trio presents musical practitioners at the height of their craft, seamlessly blending Carnatic traditions with jazz, pushing both genres forward in exciting ways. There is also music from the ...
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
by Jack Bowers
Some eighty-odd years ago a handful of trailblazers led by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing bebop as a successor to trad jazz and swing and radically transforming the music's landscape and perspective. Their terminology remained pretty much intact for a number of years, with partisans choosing a path ...
Tracy Yang: OR
by Jack Kenny
Darcy James Argue and Maria Schneider have produced music in recent years that is setting new parameters. They have broadened the scope of jazz by mining inspiration from unlikely sources: Argue finds inspiration in politics and conspiracy theories; Schneider looked at the data world, both artists revivifying the large jazz orchestra. A new name can be ...
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
by Angelo Leonardi
Su queste pagine abbiamo seguito il percorso discografico di Jihye Lee a partire dal suo esordio (April, 2017) ed il successivo Daring Mind (Motéma 2021), co-prodotto con Darcy James Argue. La collaborazione con quest'ultimo si ripropone anche nel nuovo Infinite Connections, registrato nell'ottobre 2023, che evidenzia un significativo passo avanti nella sua sintesi ...
In Winter Blooms
Album: Exuberance
By Christopher Zuar
Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Duration: 8:15
Erica Seguine: The New Day Bends Light
by Angelo Leonardi
Impegnandosi nel ruolo di produttore, Darcy James Argue dà particolare considerazione al debutto discografico di quest'ensemble, fondato nel 2011 a New York dalle compositrici Erica Seguine e Shon Baker. La prima è anche arrangiatrice e guida dell'orchestra, la seconda entra nel cast come sassofonista. Dopo varie esibizioni in locali chiave della Big Apple, ...
The New Day Bends Light
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Reel; States; Tangoing with Delusion; In Dreams; Ose Shalom; …and the Tire Swing Keeps Spinning…; The New Day Bends Light.
Holidays
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snowbound; My Favorite Things; Solstice; Blue Xmas; What Are You Doing New
Year's Eve?; Sleigh Ride; A Child is Born; The Christmas Song; I've Got My Love to
Keep Me Warm
Open Spaces
Label: Cellar Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; How Many Roads; Ahead by a Century; Shenandoah; I
Hear; Jib Set; Canadian Folk Song; Rentrer; Sarracenia Purpurea; Red River Valley.
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces
by Jerome Wilson
The subtitle of this album is “Folk Songs Reimagined" and Daniel Hersog uses a very liberal meaning for the term “folk song" here. He includes traditional folk songs on this album, in addition to familiar tunes by Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot and his own folk-based compositions. All are given a glistening polish in the sweeping ...
