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Threeway with special guest John Etheridge: Harken!
by Neil Duggan
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Threeway. This chamber jazz trio without drums consists of bassist Ben Crosland, pianist Steve Lodder and Steve Waterman on trumpet and flugelhorn. They have released three previous albums on the Jazz Cat label: Conversations (2005), Songs of the Year (2009) and Looking Forward, Looking Back (2013). For this recording, they ...
Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out
by Neil Duggan
Richard Fairhurst was 19 when he released the first of three albums as the leader of The Hungry Ants. Approaching his 50th birthday in 2024, he has gone on to become one of the most distinctive pianists and composers in the UK. He presents his ideas on Inside Out in a piano trio arrangement. This is ...
Bill Dixon: With Archie Shepp, 7-Tette & Orchestra Revisited
by Giuseppe Segala
È benvenuta questa pubblicazione nel catalogo ezz-thetics Revisited, collana che prosegue con risolutezza nella riproposta di lavori importanti, spesso fondamentali del jazz contemporaneo, concentrando in particolare la propria attenzione sugli anni Sessanta e abbinando in unico CD registrazioni storiche, opportunamente restaurate e corredate di inedite, meticolose note di copertina. Protagonista di questa uscita ...
I poeti del piano solo: Fred Hersch e Gregory Privat
by Neri Pollastri
Fred Hersch, Gregory Privat Sala Vanni I Poeti del Piano Solo Firenze 10-11.5.2024 Quinta edizione della rassegna fiorentina “I Poeti del Piano Solo," che ogni anno, grazie alla direzione artistica di Stefano Maurizi, porta sui palcoscenici cittadini una selezione dei più interessanti pianisti jazz della scena internazionale. Quest'anno i concerti ...
New Releases, Mothers In Jazz, Birthday Shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
The Mothers Day broadcast includes new releases from Win Pongsakorn, Nicki Parrott, Brenda Earle Stokes, Yelena Eckemoff, Luke Sellick & Andrew Renfroe, Meg Okura, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers and Haile Loren, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Tania Maria, Nadje Noordhuis, Judi Silvano, Andrea Superstein and Allegra Levy, among others. ...
Sol Sol: Almost All Things Considered
by Chris May
Ever since the untimely passing of the pianist Esbjörn Svensson in 2008, and the consequent diminution of his trio's radio-friendly but lightweight style, Sweden's then predominant place in Scandinavian jazz has ceded ground to Norway. So, anyway, do the results of a statistically totally invalid survey of observers in this parish suggest. But ...
Angles + Elle-Kari With Strings: The Death Of Kalypso
by Chris May
As a genre, jazz-opera is thinly populated. The recorded archive is marked more by quality than quantity, with albums by Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden to the fore. But the best ever jazz-opera, in this parish anyway, predates anything by these musicians. Composer Todd Matshikiza and lyricist Pat Williams' King Kong ...
RSD Releases, My Fair Lady, Steph Richards
by David Brown
This week we check out some Record Store Day archival release from Brother Jack McDuff, Cannonball Adderley, Yusef Lateef and Art Tatum. New music from Afro-Cuban Pianist Zaccai Curtis, pianist Noah Haidu, Trumpeter Steph Richards and Philly's own Kenny Barron. We will then the revisit My Fair Lady which opened on Broadway 68 years ago this ...
A Belated Tribute to Carla Bley
by Jerome Wilson
Better late than never, this show is in tribute to composer Carla Bley who passed away in October 2023. It features Bley's work with her various small and large groups as well as with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. It also had her compositions performed by collaborators and admirers such as Billy Drummond, Nels Cline, Gary ...
Roswell Rudd, Minnie Riperton, Tomoko Omura and Others
by Jerome Wilson
This vintage show from October 2021 has the usual eclectic mix of artists, including Roswell Rudd, Minnie Riperton, Herbie Hancock, Tomoko Omura, Denis Charles, and much more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John Nyerges ...
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