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Album

Disciplinary Architecture

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: An Aged Flamingo in a Dried-Up Pool; And Then We Towed New Zealand Out to Sea; Lighter-Complected Invaders from The North; Ricin Beans; Nuts and Bulbs (For Drenka); Defeating the Porpoise; The Word for Moonlight Is Moonlight; Disciplinary Architecture; Vile, In the Sunshine Crawling.

Album

Planetarium

By Ben Monder

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
Ouroboros II; The Mentaculus; 1973; Li Po; Planetarium.
CD 2:
Globestructures: Option II; Ataraxia; Onsulian Spring; Where or When; 3PSC.
CD 3:
Urobo; Ouroboros I; Noctivagant; Collinsport; Wayfaring Stranger.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Steve Coleman, Berne/Formanek & Arthur Blythe

by Maurice Hogue
November 26, 2024

If you are as big a fan of Steve Coleman as I am, you will most definitely dig his latest release, Poly Tropos/Of Many Turns, which captures Steve and Five Elements tearing it up at live performances in France earlier this year. Toronto electric bassist Rich Brown contributes an amazing pulse throughout, and Coleman's on fire ...

Article: Album Review

The Bad Plus: Complex Emotions

Read "Complex Emotions" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 4, 2024

For those out there who may have inadvertently thought The Bad Plus had nothing major left to say after two-plus decades of saying major things, guess again. Because Complex Emotions--their sixteenth statement of purpose--doubles down and ups a hundred. Proof positive is how guitarist Ben Monder's valedictory “LiPo"--equal parts biblical wind and prairie sandstorm--sleigh ...

Article: Album Review

Ross McHenry: Waves

Read "Waves" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
October 1, 2024

One of the reasons jazz is so intriguing is its wide range of styles and unpredictability. It has always been tricky to define. It is a genre that is constantly evolving, picking up influences along the way, and adapting in ways that can blur the lines between styles. While the term jazz often suggests something hard ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Saxophone Meets Guitar: The Dynamic Duo of Jazz

by Robert Middleton
September 11, 2024

Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with the nimble, melodic lines of a guitar. This rare instrumental combination is a hidden gem in the world of jazz that deserves more attention. Jazz is not just a genre--it is a universe with galaxies of swing, bebop, ...

Article: Jazz in Long Form

Roots to Branches: Broadway, Jazz, and David Bowie?

by Kurt Ellenberger
August 28, 2024

In 10th grade, I had a classmate in my French class named Morvan, whom I didn't know at all (in fact, I doubt I ever ever talked to her). She was quiet and introverted but also somewhat defiant and aloof. She always dressed in what was quite outlandish fashion at the time. She was somewhere in ...

Article: Catching Up With

My Conversation with David Binney

by Glenn Astarita
August 14, 2024

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 1999. New York City-based saxophonist and composer David Binney has been getting lots of well-deserved attention over the last several years. Three excellent CDs with the unique and hard driving band Lost Tribe, stints with Medeski Martin & Wood, Drew Gress' Jagged Sky, Aretha ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ben Monder, Joao Lencastre & Emile Parisien

by Maurice Hogue
August 12, 2024

The much-respected guitarist Ben Monder took ten years to painstakingly craft the music on his latest release Planetarium. It's Monder at his finest, filtering through various moods, technique and sonic surprises. There's new music from Europe as usual--the German trio Brom, French soprano sax wizard Emile Parisien and his quartet, and Portuguese drummer Joao Lencastre and ...