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The Bari Session

By Paul Wertico
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Circular Motion; Toms For Talia; Cowboys & Africans; It Seemed That Life Was So
Wonderful; Train Bossa; What Would The World Be; Tuning Song
December 2021

by Pat Youngspiel
Johannes Luley Follow Your Heart My Sonic Temple 2021 The likes of of Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie and Kenny Wheeler are closely linked, not only musically but most of all because a majority of their recordings was released on ECM Records. They're also quite the musicians to look up ...
Marieke Koopman: Chapter One

by Jack Bowers
Vocalist Marieke Koopman grew up in a musical family in The Netherlands. Although the music was baroque (her father is a percussionist, her mother a harpsichordist), Koopman was somehow drawn toward jazz, especially swinging jazz. The first time I saw a big band perform live, I was mesmerized," she writes. And she made a promise to ...
Ricardo Pinheiro: Turn Out The StarsThe Music Of Bill Evans

by Pierre Giroux
Much has been written about pianist Bill Evans and the influence he had on the development of new piano voices following his emergence in the 1950s. Evans infused his style with eloquent lyricism, coupled with harmonic transpositions and modal improvisations, all of which lead to an easily recognizable sound. It should be no surprise that his ...
Martial Solal: Coming Yesterday: Live At Salle Gaveau 2019

by Chris May
In 2010, a British writer travelled to Paris to interview the pianist Martial Solal. The address he had been given was in the affluent suburb Chatou. On arrival, Solal's house struck the writer as something quite unlike the home of any other jazz musician he had ever visited, an haute bourgeoisie villa surrounded by an ornamental ...
UASSYN: Zacharya - Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 87

by Glenn Astarita
This young Swiss saxophone trio spawns a democratic effort where each musician stands out as a contributor throughout the rather brief (32- minutes) timeframe. Thus, no one hogs the limelight from a holistic viewpoint. Moreover, the press release states that, Now Uassyn is taking their long overdue next step and recorded their debut album Zacharya" for ...
Up Jumped Spring

Album: The Song Is You
By Lilly Hertzman
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 06:14
Carla Marciano: Psychosis - Homage to Bernard Herrmann

by Jerome Wilson
On this CD Italian saxophonist Carla Marciano pays tribute to a lifelong influence, the music of film soundtrack composer Bernard Hermann. Hermann wrote a lot of significant scores in his time but Marciano concentrates on his music for thrillers. She mostly deals with his scores for Alfred Hitchcock, but also tackles his music for Martin Scorsese's ...
Julia Karosi: Without Dimensions

by Jerome Wilson
Julia Karosi is a Hungarian vocalist and composer who, in this set, leads her group through sparkling music steeped in the traditions of her country's folk music and two of its most prominent 20th century composers, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly. She interprets the work of both men as well as playing her own original music. ...
Joost Lijbaart: Free

by Mark Sullivan
When a drummer/percussionist records a solo albumespecially one with the title Freea potential listener's first expectation would likely involve long, abstract drum solos. Nothing could be further from the truth. Dutch musician Joost Lijbaart took the opportunity offered by Covid-19 downtime to craft a suite of short pieces characterized by a rich variety of timbres (including ...