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Mike DeiCont: DeiCont | Philips Collective

Read "DeiCont | Philips Collective" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

Mike DeiCont and Allison Philips are the kind of players who don't want to just give you something unusual to listen to, but hopefully take you on a trip as well. It's unclear exactly where--probably to them as well as you--since the results are in territory so abstract it's off the map. Sometimes it's not even ...

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Jambalaya 37: Cooking Groove

Read "Cooking Groove" reviewed by Jim Olin

by Jim Olin

Cooking an amazing meal is a little bit like making music with a band. You have to know what ingredients harmonize well together, and you have to understand what it takes to add just the right spice to come up with a truly mouthwatering end result. It's about the magic of chemistry, how various pieces develop ...

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Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis

Read "Y-Otis" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Conosciuto principalmente per il suo decisivo contributo all'ottimo Speak Low di Lucia Cadotsch, il sassofonista e compositore Otis Sandsjo debutta per l'etichetta finlandese We Jazz con un quartetto di tutto rispetto ed un album dagli intriganti contenuti che non può lasciare indifferenti. Se si esclude la batteria, il resto del quartetto fa ampio uso dei sintetizzatori. ...

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William Parker, Stefano Scodanibbio: Bass Duo

Read "Bass Duo" reviewed by Francesca Odilia Bellino

by Francesca Odilia Bellino

Ci sono CD che sono storici perché contengono un unicum musicale. Bass Duo rientra nella tipologia dal momento che documenta l'unico incontro musicale mai avvenuto tra i contrabbassisti William Parker e Stefano Scodanibbio realizzato nell'ambito dell'Udin&Jazz Festival del 2008. Due giganti del contrabbasso moderno, molto diversi per modo di suonare e per formazione, ...

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Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth

Read "Heaven & Earth" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

Taking inspiration from his 2017 release Harmony Of Difference, Kamasi Washington has once again employed the use of strings and choir on this gargantuan release. The sonic augmentation has the effect of rendering many of the tracks like a cross between John Coltrane and Carl Orff or perhaps Sun Ra and Sir Karl Jenkins.

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Eddie Daniels: Heart Of Brazil

Read "Heart Of Brazil" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When Resonance Records' George Klabin pitched Eddie Daniels on this project saluting Egberto Gismonti, the legendary reedist was enthused yet somewhat trepidatious. Gismonti's music--a sui generis form of fantasia that proves evocative in its blending of Brazilian forms, a jazz harmonist's argot, and European classical languages--is no easy nut to crack or translate. But Daniels, of ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Tallitsch: Wheelhouse

Read "Wheelhouse" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

Tom Tallitsch's Wheelhouse is a recording in which something honest and genuine springs from the soil of a long established, familiar jazz style. Although pinning a hard bop label on the music is fairly accurate, ultimately it amounts to a quick, glib, descriptive fix that may distort or diminish the character of the record. The same ...

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Christian Windfeld/Julius Schwing: Rhubarb

Read "Rhubarb" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Bruny Island sits off the coast of the Australian state of Tasmania--the adopted home of guitarist Julius Schwing. With its iconic lighthouse, large populations of endangered bird species and spacious, uninhabited regions, Schwing, upon his first visit, found it an inspiration. Originally inhabited only by Aborigines, it is home to wallabies and penguins and provides an ...

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Bongwool Lee: My Singing Fingers

Read "My Singing Fingers" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch

Much has been written about the different creative processes engaged between classical and jazz musicians, more specifically, as applied to the collective worlds of jazz and classical piano. New York based pianist Bongwool Lee has an intimate relationship with these perceived differences. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, she was exposed by her parents to a ...

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Article: Album Review

Eric Wyatt: Look To The Sky

Read "Look To The Sky" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Look To The Sky is a story of family, navigating the world of jazz, and extolling those who helped light the way. To call it a tribute record would be to frame it inaccurately, but it's most certainly built around the personalized song of praise. Saxophonist Eric Wyatt, a brawny Brooklynite with a ...


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