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Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles

Read "Alternate Moon Cycles" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 1, 2015

The first half of the decade has seen cornet virtuoso and composer Rob Mazurek through significant achievements and personal losses, often linked inextricably through his creative processes. In and around the passing of his mentor and colleague, the trumpeter Bill Dixon in 2010 and his mother in 2013, Mazurek has found inspirations that are unique even ...

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Annie Lennox: Nostalgia

Read "Nostalgia" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
January 31, 2015

You can't fault Annie Lennox if she gives the impression Nostalgia is her first swipe at a “serious" jazz record. Back in the 90's she entered the scene as the gender-bending vocalist of the Eurythmics turning out perfect synth pop. Lennox turned 60 this year and along with her closely-cropped grey hair, she displays the full ...

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Jonas Kullhammar: Gentlemen

Read "Gentlemen" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 31, 2015

Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar continues to capture the late-fifties and early-sixties Blue Note sound. That magic golden age of jazz, when legends roamed roamed the earth, and recorded their music at Rudy Van Gelder's studio. His music conjures names like Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. The twelve compositions recorded here are the ...

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Tony Mastrull: The Tony Mastrull Project

Read "The Tony Mastrull Project" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 31, 2015

In the late 1960s, the story circulated in Las Vegas that Elvis Presley caught aural wind of an original composition written by a young arranger and which piece was used in the Vegas production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The King was so taken by the tune's emotional power that he offered to buy ...

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Gebhard Ullmann/Basement Research: Hat And Shoes

Read "Hat And Shoes" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 31, 2015

Without a doubt, German multi-woodwind ace Gebhard Ullmann is one of the busiest artists within the global jazz network. Hat & Shoes celebrates his Basement Research band's 20th anniversary and the artist's 50th CD as a co-leader and leader, including his other ensembles --Conference Call and the Clarinet Trio. The all-star quintet ups the ...

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Jeff Hamilton Trio: Great American Songs Through the Years

Read "Great American Songs Through the Years" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 30, 2015

Jeff Hamilton, by any measure one of the more tasteful and talented jazz drummers on the scene, has kept his working trio (Tamir Hendelman, piano; Christoph Luty, bass) together for more than a decade. There's a good reason for that: Hendelman and Luty are kindred souls, and as accomplished in their own way as Hamilton is ...

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Tomasz Stanko: Leosia

by Budd Kopman
January 30, 2015

Recorded in 1996 and released in 1997, Leosia is not only one of the high points of trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's forty-year career, but one of the absolute gems in the ECM catalogue, twenty years removed from his first ECM recording, Balladyna. The album itself is one of those things that just seems perfect from ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Shiki

Read "Shiki" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 30, 2015

Satoko Fujii è una delle figure più versatili e creative della scena musicale contemporanea. Dall'inizio degli anni Novanta ha prodotto un corpus di opere quanto mai vasto e articolato, comprendente molti capolavori. Com'è noto, uno dei suoi ambiti prediletti è la conduzione orchestrale, che ha portato avanti con regolarità e che nel 2014 ha ...

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Riccardo Chiarion: Sirene

Read "Sirene" reviewed by Luca Casarotti

by Luca Casarotti
January 30, 2015

Il chitarrista friulano Riccardo Chiarion ha alle spalle un solido percorso di studi musicali: allievo, fra gli altri, del conterraneo Glauco Venier e di Roberto Dani, è a sua volta didatta e autore di manuali e lezioni online. In questo Sirene, per la prima volta, esegue unicamente sue composizioni. Con lui ci sono Michele Polga al ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Worker

by Dave Wayne
January 30, 2015

Of all the bands playing jazz-rock, or fusion, or whatever-you-want-to-call it, the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (or JFJO as they're known by their fans) is the one that comes closest to embodying Joe Zawinul's dictum regarding Weather Report's modus operandi: ..."nobody solos, everybody solos." The similarities stop there, however, though JFJO's careening omnivorous creativity, like Weather ...