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Van Morrison: The Essential Van Morrison
by Nenad Georgievski
Here is a compilation that truly lives up to its name--a generous collection of 37 singer Van Morrison's classic gems, covering a period of several decades of immense creativity and musical journey, from his earliest classics with the band Them up until songs from his later recordings like Magic Time and Pay the Devil. Blessed with ...
Liberation Music Collective: Siglo XXI
by Jack Bowers
Siglo XXI ("21st Century" in Spanish) is big-band jazz with a conscience, cerebral music capably performed by the Indiana-based Liberation Music Collective, a successor to Charlie Haden / Carla Bley's similarly high-minded Liberation Music Orchestra from the '70s and beyond. Interspersed among the nine musical selections are brief interviews with alto saxophonist Matthew Setzler, baritone Durand ...
Oscar Peterson: Exclusively For My Friends
by Bruce Lindsay
An 8-CD set of recordings from the great Oscar Peterson, beautifully recorded, sumptuously packaged and accompanied by a 60-page booklet full of informative writing: Exclusively For My Friends is a treat for ears and eyes. All of the recordings on this set were made between 1963 and 1971. The sessions took place in the home of ...
Yoshie Fruchter: Schizophonia: Cantorial Recordings Reimagined
by Dave Wayne
A stalwart of New York City's astoundingly creative Judaic music scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Yoshie Fruchter specializes in one thing: moving on from what he's already accomplished. Though he has two genre-smashing albums of edgy, Judaic jazz- rock-prog fusion on John Zorn's Tzadik label under his belt (Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, Tzadik Records, 2011, and ...
Josh Maxey: Celebration of Soul
by Mark Sullivan
Celebration of Soul is the tenth and final album in a series of recordings made in just three years by guitarist/composer Josh Maxey. Such a uniquely prolific output did not happen by accident. Maxey says “The key to the series has been having a goal beyond what I would have considered reasonable." The series is a ...
Marco Castelli: Porti di Mare
by Neri Pollastri
Esperto sassofonista e eccellente compositore messosi in luce negli ultimi anni con la BandOrkestra 55, originale organico allargato che coniuga la banda popolare e la big band jazzistica, Marco Castelli si presenta qui alla testa di una formazione tipica e presenta--come in BandOrkestra--un repertorio eclettico, che spazia da Jelly Roll Morton alla musica latinoamerica, fino alla ...
Andrew McCormack: First Light
by Vincenzo Roggero
L'origine britannica e la residenza newyorchese costituiscono il fil rouge che attraversa First Light album nel quale il pianista Andrew McCormack fonde in maniera convincente l'aplomb, la compostezza, l'eleganza anglosassone con la vivacità, la memoria storica, lo sguardo curioso di chi guarda al futuro tipici della scena della grande mela, scena da cui provengono peraltro il ...
Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are The Drum
by Dan Bilawsky
While drummer Kendrick Scott's namesake outfit--Kendrick Scott Oracle--has been around in some form since 2006, it's a band that's really come into its own in the last few years. With the arrival of Conviction (Concord Records, 2013), Scott made a major statement on a high-visibility label; jazz listeners and critics both took note. With We Are ...
Michael Bisio: Accortet
by Mark Corroto
There is a cartoon circulating the internet that depicts a criminal suspect being interrogated by police. Also in the room is a jazz bassist. The detective tells his partner, “he'll talk, everyone talks during the bass solo." That may be true, unless the bassist is Michael Bisio. Whether performing with pianist Matthew Shipp or saxophonist Ivo ...
Anna Gourari: Visions Fugitives
by Hrayr Attarian
Prodigious pianist Anna Gourari brings her unique touch to Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's twenty miniatures on Visions Fugitives. The series has infrequently been recorded in its entirety and rarely with the wit and elegance that Gourari brings to it. She tiptoes gently on the nocturnesque “1.Lentamente," brings a lively spontaneity to the effervescent “11. ...
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