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John Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell: Good Night Songs

Read "Good Night Songs" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Good Night Songs is an intimate live recording of three masterful improvisers in a relaxed, contemplative mood. Serene yet challenging, this double album is the culmination of lives spent under the radar exploring free jazz as imperative expression. Saxophonists John Tchicai and Charlie Kohlhase and guitarist Garrison Fewell converged on a late December evening ...

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Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs

Read "Spirit Songs" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling

Primarily working outside of the major league jazz spotlight, but not far from it by any means, Anthony Branker is crafting some of today's finest compositions--and has assembled the sextet Ascent to bring them to musical life. Spirit Songs consists of tunes Branker has written since 1997, performed by a rather formidable unit: ...

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Mark Elf: Liftoff

Read "Liftoff" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Several musicians have found their muse in John Coltrane, and Mark Elf joins the group with Liftoff. The guitarist takes the chord changes to Coltrane's “Countdown to create the title piece. Word play notwithstanding, Elf can turn a tune to his advantage. His notes are crisp, even as they zip along at feverish pace, and that ...

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Jamie Stewardson: Jhaptal

Read "Jhaptal" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

Guitarist Jamie Stewardson's new album, whose title refers to a ten-beat rhythmic cycle frequently used in Indian music, brings together a talented ensemble to explore nine original compositions. With Stewardson are tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, vibraphonist Alexei Tsiganov, bassist John Hebert and drummer George Schuller. Stewardson studied under John Abercrombie and Mick Goodrick at ...

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Pete McCann: Most Folks

Read "Most Folks" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Pete McCann confesses to a love of music from several different streams which influenced him as he was growing. The guitarist opens up a few of those influences on Most Folks with a skill which reveals him to be not only a good listener, but also a writer with the ability to build a striking composition ...

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Pete McCann: Most Folks

Read "Most Folks" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Pete McCann, a ridiculously versatile guitarist, takes his varied interests to extremes on this Omnitone debut. McCann's third album as a leader is his most diverse collection of songs yet. He explains his stylistically unbound aesthetic this way: “I like music; I like all different types of jazz.... I love it all. I don't like to ...

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Reuben Hoch and Time: Of Recent Time

Read "Of Recent Time" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

Drummer/composer Reuben Hoch was born in Brooklyn, New York at about the same time that Miles Davis was putting the final touches on Kind of Blue across the bridge at Columbia Studios. As an Orthodox Jew, he attended Jewish parochial schools and graduated from Yeshiva University; he also prayed in the various Chassidic synogogues in Brooklyn.

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Reuben Hoch and Time: Of Recent Time

Read "Of Recent Time" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Drummer Reuben Hoch takes time to go to church on Of Recent Time, literally. His fine piano trio--featuring pianist Don Friedman and bassist Ed Schuller--recorded the set of familiar modern jazz tunes at the Community Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, getting some warm and expansive resonance into their artistry.It's all a church, of ...

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Reuben Hoch and Time: Of Recent Time

Read "Of Recent Time" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

This drummer-led piano trio comes full circle on a strong program of tunes from a diverse band of composers, plus an original from the leader. The playing is compact, giving rein to improvisation that stays in the mood while adding enough tonality to render the proceedings interesting. Reuben Hoch pegs the rhythm into the groove, and ...

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Bud Shank: Bouncing with Bud and Phil - Live at Yoshi's

Read "Bouncing with Bud and Phil - Live at Yoshi's" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

This document from a 2004 tour stop at one of the West Coast's best-known rooms finds two septuagenarian saxophone players revisiting and reshaping songs they have been performing throughout the years, often as duets. Play close attention to their rendition of Eden Ahbez's beautiful “Nature Boy, which Bud Shank introduces as a slow-tempo ballad, until the ...


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