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Article: Year in Review

Most Read Album Reviews: 2018

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2019

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2018. After The Fall Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette by Karl Ackermann Published: February 13, 2018 Music IS ...

Album

Music IS

By Bill Frisell

Label: Okeh
Released: 2018
Track listing: Pretty Stars; Winslow Homer; Change in the Air; What Do You Want?; Thankful; Ron Carter; Think About It; In Line; Rambler; The Pioneers; Monica Jane; Miss You; Go Happy Lucky; Kentucky Derby; Made to Shine; Rambler (bonus, alternate version).

Album

Strata

By Skúli Sverrisson

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Sweet Earth; Instants; Vanishing Point; Ancient Affection; Came to Light; Side B: Cave of the Swimmers; Amedeo; Afternoon Variant; Segment; Her Room.

Article: Live Review

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams at Zellerbach Hall

by Harry S. Pariser
December 29, 2018

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA December 6, 2018 It isn't often that a pedal steel guitar is found in a jazz ensemble. And it is even less frequent that a country music singer-songwriter joins one on vocals. But this iconoclastic collaboration had its genesis ...

Article: Live Review

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams at UMS

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 26, 2018

Charles Lloyd and The Marvels with special guest Lucinda Williams Michigan Theater University Musical Society 25th Annual Jazz Series Ann Arbor, Michigan December 8, 2018 Memphis native Charles Lloyd has seen a lot in his eighty years on the planet. His own musical voyage is the stuff of legend and ...

Article: Year in Review

Il meglio del 2018 secondo Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 26, 2018

Ogni linguaggio che partecipa alla multiforme scena del jazz contemporaneo ha espresso dischi eccellenti, equiparabili per valore artistico . Dal mio punto di vista, accanto alle opere di veterani sempre creativi come Henry Threadgill, Kenny Barron, Bill Frisell e Franco D'Andrea, ho ammirato i lavori di quaranta/cinquantenni come Jamie Saft, JD Allen, Michael Leonhart, Edward Simon ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cale Brandley & Triptych Myth and Philip Zoubek

by Maurice Hogue
December 26, 2018

Master drummer Andrew Cyrille turned 79 in November. His wonderful new recording Lebroba, following on the heels of his acclaimed The Declaration of Musical Independence proves age has little to do with creativity. You'll hear two tracks from the new release which features Bill Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith, another septuagenarian at peak powers.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions & Those Who Remain

by Doug Collette
December 22, 2018

Since coming to some renown in New York City during the Eighties and Nineties, Wayne Horvitz has developed a career almost as eclectic as it is esoteric. Performer, composer, educator and entrepreneur comprise just a few of the roles he has assumed in near-fifty years of audacious enterprise and these dual releases vividly illustrates the range ...

Article: Year in Review

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2018

by John Kelman
December 19, 2018

Once again, the chronic health problem that has reduced my writing pace to a crawl continues without any respite. My best of the year lists have traditionally been predicated upon having reviewed the releases chosen, but with only a relative handful of reviews to choose from this year (and with those choices, more than ever now, ...

Article: Year in Review

Jerome Wilson's Best Releases Of 2018

by Jerome Wilson
December 18, 2018

It may be unwieldy to keep a large jazz ensemble together for economic reasons but this year was still full of outstanding big band recordings, whether done through commissions, arrangers working with established orchestras or even actual working ensembles. Several of the releases on my list are examples of that. Also this year had the usual ...