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Paul Jost: Breaking Through

Read "Breaking Through" reviewed by Peter McLaren

by Peter McLaren
October 15, 2014

Paul Jost's second outing on Dot Time Records is an eclectic collection of standard repertoire performed in a fresh and exciting manner that leaves no doubt this artist is a creative force that deserves to be added to the list of great male jazz vocalists of all time. The album opens with a version ...

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Eric Schugren/Vin Scialla/Brian Charette/Mike DiRubbo: Wake Up!

Read "Wake Up!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 14, 2014

Wake-Up! is one of those surprises that jazz lovers live for. The names--four of them on the very well-designed, 1960s Blue Note Records-like cover--aren't top shelf in terms of profile. They might even be completely unfamiliar to the less than fanatical jazz fans. But what a band! What a set! There's just something that ...

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JP Soars: Full Moon Night In Memphis

Read "Full Moon Night In Memphis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 14, 2014

The blues have proven to be a most durable musical genre. They are also quite fertile and productive, providing the basis for infinite interpretation. This is good and bad. It is good for all of the exceptional music that has been made atop the rugged 12-bar harmonic structure. It is bad for all of the bad ...

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Tohpati: Tribal Dance

Read "Tribal Dance" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2014

Indonesian composer, producer and guitarist Tohpati continues his march toward dominating the jazz-rock fusion guitar world with Tribal Dance. Written and produced by the guitarist, this electrifying Dance was recorded live in a Los Angeles studio then finished in Indonesia, and is credited to “Tohpati featuring Jimmy Haslip and Chad Wackerman." Haslip and Wackerman previously worked ...

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Cortex: Live

by Glenn Astarita
October 14, 2014

As the marketing info implies, this Scandinavian quartet summons remembrances of the Ornette Coleman ensemble featuring Don Cherry performing on cornet. Yet by no means are these gentlemen copycats. Hence, each composition imparts a different story, whether the artists are melding an open-air sound with bursting breakouts and idiosyncratic intonations or generating aggressive free-form escapades on ...

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3D: Dąbrowski Davis Drury: Vermilion Tree

Read "Vermilion Tree" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 14, 2014

The international 3D trio was initiated by Polish, Denmark-based rising trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski during his 2012 visit to New York that already yielded a duo with drummer Tyshawn Sorey (Steps, For Tune, 2013). Canadian, New York-based pianist Kris Davis and American drummer (with Nordic roots) Andrew Drury join Dąbrowski in a set of eight concise, snapshot-like ...

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Nicola Conte: Free Souls

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2014

Tutta l'anima di Nicola Conte. Inconfondibile. Mettiamo un po' in ordine gli elementi. La sua passione per la black music è vera e consapevole, ormai da anni: jazz, soul, latin, bossanova, funk, sono elementi di un vocabolario che ha le pagine un po' ingiallite come si conviene a chi si bagna nei ...

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Lena Bloch: Feathery

Read "Feathery" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
October 14, 2014

Moscovita di nascita ma giramondo per natura dopo un primo trasferimento alla volta di Israele datato 1990, Lena Bloch è una solida tenorista formatasi studiando, fra gli altri, con Yusef Lateef, Joe Lovano e in fondo più di tutti Lee Konitz, che l'ha introdotta all'estetica tristaniana, forgiando per sempre il suo linguaggio (e la sua pronuncia, ...

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Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Read "OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2014

While it may be hard to believe, the reality is that the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is nearing the end of its first half-century together. Formed in 1966 as the Thad Jones -Mel Lewis Orchestra, it continued on after Jones' departure as the Mel Lewis Orchestra, then as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra after Lewis' death in February ...

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Madeleine Peyroux: Keep Me In Your Heart For A While: The Best Of Madeleine Peyroux

Read "Keep Me In Your Heart For A While: The Best Of Madeleine Peyroux" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2014

Vocalist and composer Madeleine Peyroux has a stylistic reach well beyond that of jazz. Her only peer in this respect is Nora Jones. True, she has a great fascination with Billie Holiday, but she has managed to assimilate this influence into her own presence and parlay it into the para-jazz realm with intelligent programming and song ...