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Christina Dahl: Life's Carousel

Read "Life's Carousel" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
June 2, 2014

Christina Dahl, wife of Carsten Dahl, Denmark's No. 1 jazz pianist, is that rare phenomenon: a woman saxophonist. She is a very forceful player, guilty perhaps, on occasion, of over- compensating for her femininity. Still, the saxophone has always tended to encourage extremes of expression, from the raucous, macho honking of rhythm 'n' ...

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Max Johnson: The Prisoner

Read "The Prisoner" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 2, 2014

NYC-based bassist Max Johnson already boasts an impressively strong discography, after just two entries: Quartet (Not Two, 2013) and Elevated Vegetation (FMR, 2012). With a new crew on board for The Prisoner, he tackles that hoary chestnut the concept album. Except of course that in the medium of jazz, this doesn't mean a string of banal ...

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Angles 9: Injuries

Read "Injuries" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
June 2, 2014

What's to love about this CD is the musicality that's thrown into the maelstrom of styles and attitudes. You've got a hint of early, experimental jazz from the mid-60s with the opening number, “European Boogie" (think Bobby Hutcherson with Eric Dolphy or Archie Shepp, the vibes being paramount); that's until they all start into a kind ...

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Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord: Liverevil

by Dave Wayne
June 2, 2014

Blessed with one of the most talented and exciting backing bands in jazz today, guitarist Jon Lundbom returns with a mammoth 2-CD live epic. Liverevil captures the band in performance on their hometown stomping grounds, Brooklyn Fire Proof, in front of a rightfully enthusiastic crowd. Easily able to sustain interest over the course of a double ...

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Max Johnson Quartet: The Prisoner

Read "The Prisoner" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 2, 2014

Double bassist Max Johnson's new suite The Prisoner is inspired by the futuristic British cult TV series from the end of the sixties by the same name. This series was a source of inspiration for many artists, among them The Clash, Iron Maiden, and avant-garde sound artist David Shea. New York-based Johnson assembled a quartet of ...

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Irene Schweizer - Pierre Favre: Live in Zurich

Read "Live in Zurich" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
June 2, 2014

Come dice Ekkehard Jost nel suo fondamentale volume Europas Jazz (Fischer Verlag, 1987), “Negli anni attorno al 1970, in un fase storica relativamente breve, il Jazz europeo trovò se stesso." Gli elvetici Irène Schweizer e Pierre Favre sono tra coloro che contribuirono fortemente all'identità europea di una musica che fino a quel momento aveva vissuto quasi ...

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Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 2, 2014

Questo splendido lavoro vede due protagonisti dell'avanguardia attuale (il pianista Matthew Shipp e il batterista Jeff Cosgrove) in libero confronto collettivo assieme al contrabbassista William Parker, concreta connessione con le rivoluzioni musicali degli anni sessanta. In particolare due eminenti figure di quella stagione si pongono come ideali riferenti per questa musica e sono i ...

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Jangeun Bae: JB

by Ian Patterson
June 1, 2014

Since her debut, The End and Everything After (Kang Music, 2006), Korean pianist Jangeun Bae has largely followed her personal muse, writing original compositions and reworking Korean folk tunes, with the occasional jazz standard thrown in for good measure. She's also refashioned Mozart on Mozart and Jazz (Universal Music, 2007) and recorded with saxophonist Greg Osby. ...

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2013: A Tribute to Donald Byrd

Read "A Tribute to Donald Byrd" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2014

When Fred Irby III took the reins as director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble in 1975, one of his earliest and most pivotal decisions was to usher the ensemble into a recording studio once each year to produce an album designed to offer a musical vignette of its proficiency at that point in time. From ...

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Marko Djordjevic & Sveti: Something Beautiful

Read "Something Beautiful" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
June 1, 2014

Drop the “needle" down anywhere on Something Beautiful and you're likely to find ... something beautiful. There's some hidden spirit that carries this music along from track to track as drummer/composer Marko Djordjevic takes his merry band of four (when it's not a trio) through 12 hearty originals, all of them Djordjevic's. After listening ...