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Morten Schantz Trio: Passenger
by Ian Patterson
It might be tempting to view Morten Schantz's Passenger as a lockdown album, recorded as it was during those strange times of isolation, but the music can perhaps better be understood as the culmination of personal and musical growth stretching back over more than two decades. Schantz first led a piano trio whilst still ...
Jacob’s Ladder
By Brad Mehldau
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: -maybe as his skies are wide-;
Herr und Knecht (Master and Slave);
(Entr'acte) Glam Perfume;
Cogs in Cogs, pt. 1: Dance;
Cogs in Cogs, Pt. II: Song;
Cogs in Cogs, Pt. III: Double Fugue;
Tom Sawyer;
Vou correndo te encontrar / Racecar;
Jacob’s Ladder, Pt. I: Liturgy;
Jacob’s Ladder, Pt. II: Song;
Jacob’s Ladder, Pt. III: Ladder;
Heaven: I. All Once – II. Life Seeker – III. Würm – IV. Epilogue: It Was a Dream but I Carry It Still.
Long Gone
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Long Gone: Disco Ears: Statuesque: Kite Song: Ship To Shore: Rejoice.
Doug Hall's Best Jazz Albums of 2022
by Doug Hall
So many new jazz releases and so little time. If I could lock myself away in a listening room for a month with food and water only, I could begin do justice to all the significant, creative and enlightening recordings that have been offered in 2022. Phew!!! Charles Lloyd Trios ChapelBlue ...
Arild Andersen Group: Affirmation
by Karl Ackermann
For almost half a century, Arild Andersen has been a pillar of Manfred Eicher's ECM label. His ECM albums have traversed dissimilar territory, from the brooding Shimri (1976), the folk-influenced Sagn (1990), to the orchestral grandeur of Live at Belleville (2008). At seventy-seven, the Norwegian bassist offers the almost entirely improvised Affirmation. Andersen is joined by ...
Ain’t But a Few of Us
by AAJ Staff
The following is an excerpt from the section “Magazine Freelancers" taken from Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story edited by Willard Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2022). Magazine Freelancers by John Murph John Murph has successfully channeled his voracious appetite for modern music into a keenly social outlook that takes ...
Take Five With Lisa Hilton, Revisited
by AAJ Staff
Meet Lisa Hilton Lisa Kristine Hilton is a composer, pianist, producer and bandleader. Growing up on California's beautiful central coast, Hilton was so entranced with the piano that she taught herself to play with a colored keyboard guide and composed simple songs before beginning piano lessons. Attending college in San Francisco, she missed the creativity she had ...
John Patitucci, Michael Blake, Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Marco Pacassoni & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this set we focus on Hammond jazz, brass-heavy projects, North-European bands and a series of albums that have John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter and Terri Lyne Carrington as common threads.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jupiter “Stratos" The Wild East (Moserobie) 0:16 ...
Doruzka/Wylezol/Ballard: Andromeda's Mystery
by Doug Collette
Drummer Jeff Ballard has kept himself busy and productive while his long-time collaborator, pianist/composer Brad Mehldau, has been engaged in projects other than the trio in which they share membership. Ballard lent his finely-honed percussion technique and instinctive empathy as a musician to the Fabian Willman Trio's Balance (CYH Records, 2022) as well as appearing on ...
Who Are The Stars Today?
by Joseph Vella
The other day a friend asked me the all-important question: Who are the new “stars" in jazz today? Some names that came to mind were James Francies, Oded Tzur, and Julian Lage but would I call them “stars" of the music? Technically proficient artists? Yes. Stars? Not sure. Today, there is no shortage of ...
