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Scott DuBois: Winter Light
by Dan Bilawsky
The journey from morning to night, from the dark and promising wintry dawn to the gelid day's goodbye, is one fraught with possibility. At least that's how guitarist Scott DuBois sees it. On Winter Light, Dubois tells the story of a single frigid day. It's as wondrous, chilling, atmospheric, and powerful as can be.
Jon Davis: Changes Over Time
by Blaine Fallis
Jon Davis plays with a richness of soul, exhibiting a well versed jazz character that can go from Jaco (whom he worked with for several years), New Orleans swamp, and freedom jazz dance, to Stevie Wonder, and back. Although he doesn't try to sound like Bill Evans, he did pen a tune called Waltz for U, ...
Tyler Kaneshiro: Amber of the Moment
by Dave Wayne
First impressions mean everything. Amber of the Moment, trumpeter / composer Tyler Kaneshiro's debut album opens with a cloying cover of Bjork's “Who Is It." While nicely rendered, and suitably arranged, Kaneshiro's version plays it safe, replacing all of the oddness of the original with slick nu-jazz gloss. The cover of Bon Iver's “Holocene" fares better, ...
Jon Davis: Changes Over Time
by Dan Bilawsky
While there are no liner notes to accompany pianist Jon Davis' third date for the Posi-Tone imprint, there's a quote inside the package, attributed to author Anne Rice, that gets to the heart of the matter: “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are." So is personal evolution and ...
Peter Paulsen Trio: A Few Thoughts
by Karl Ackermann
Bassist and composer Peter Paulsen is not reticent in his willingness to quote the bible. He specifically cites Matthew 13: 31-32 in stating an approach to creating music rooted in observation and execution through improvisation, communication and impulsiveness. He references a line regarding the mustard seed, saying it is..."the least of all the seeds; but when ...
Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New
by Jeff Winbush
When your first or last name is “Miles" and you play jazz and you make an album dueting with a trumpet player and you call it Kind of New, you're opening yourself up to all sorts of assumptions and expectations. Well, let's get those expectations out of the way. Kind of New is not ...
CEO Experiment: CEO Experiment
by Ian Patterson
CEO Experiment's eponymous debut, merging jazz's more traditional roots with a modern aesthetic, is proof not only of a fine trio in the making but also of Dublin's thriving cosmopolitan jazz scene. Born of a jam session in The International Bar--one of the city's most renowned jazz sanctuaries--in 2013, the palpable chemistry felt that day between ...
Jose Gurria's Gurrisonic Orchestra: Three Kids Music
by Dave Wayne
Accompanied by a richly illustrated, full-color 46-page booklet (with notes by Jeff Tamarkin, the Associate Editor of JazzTimes Magazine) and packaged in a lush trifold paper sleeve, Three Kids Music by José Gurría and his 21-piece Gurrisonic Orchestra projects a sort of hugeness and importance whose portent is completely fulfilled by the quality of the music ...
Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen
by Hrayr Attarian
Over a period spanning eight years (2001-2009) Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger has radically reinterpreted the works of medieval composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut. Holliger calls the resulting disc, Machaut-Transkriptionen “transcriptions" but in fact it is much more than that. By changing rhythmic structures here, time signatures there, even improvising on de Machaut's themes ...
Jazzedelics: Jazzedelics
by Graham E Peterson
Opening with the burning re-harmonization of Jimi Hendrix's “Fire," the Jazzedelics incorporate all of the rhythmic intensity of the king of psychedelic rock's massive sound while reimagining the song in fresh and new harmonic territory. The band sets out to take some of the 1960's most notable recordings and recreate them as if jazz musicians had ...
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