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Kelly Green: Volume One

Read "Volume One" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 12, 2018

If we were talking baseball, pianist, vocalist, and composer Kelly Green would be highly touted as a three tool player. And she deserves to be. From every angle she hears breaks and stops, harmonic and melodic whoops, swoops and vocal dips and dives that the rest of us maybe don't until the artist makes them as ...

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Dmitry Baevsky / Jeb Patton: We Two

Read "We Two" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
December 9, 2018

Alto saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky and pianist Jeb Patton constitute a crackerjack, precision jazz instrument, stretching and bending the fundamentals of bebop into full-blown statements that render the absence of a bassist and drummer superfluous. The individual heroics that one expects of bop are in evidence, but it's the ways in which the duo maneuvers as a ...

Article: Talking 2 Musicians

The Multifaceted Mike Seal

by Alan Bryson
December 8, 2018

He's an extraordinarily talented guitarist whose musical interests range from jazz and bluegrass to classical music. Mike Seal has been active on the Southern music scene for over a decade and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. His grandfather was a gifted self taught gospel guitarist in rural Virginia, and his older brother, Rob Seal, is a ...

Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases Of 2018

by Dan McClenaghan
December 6, 2018

The music keeps moving forward, evolving to higher levels. My search for the best jazz recordings of 2018 led me to these marvelous CDs. Satoko Fujii Satoko Fujii Solo Libra Records A person's sixtieth birthday serves as a milestone, more so in Japan--where it is referred to as “Kanreki"--than elsewhere. ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part XI

by C. Michael Bailey
December 6, 2018

Kris Adams We Should Have Danced Self Produced 2018 There is a special significance to Kris Adams's release We Should Have Danced. The recording features Adam's original lyrics with arrangements by pianist Tim Ray, of compositions of the late Steve Prosser, Adams' former husband and Berklee College of Music professor. ...

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Frank Morgan and George Cables: Montreal Memories

Read "Montreal Memories" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes

by Peter J. Hoetjes
December 6, 2018

Montreal Memories is a duet album recorded at Theatre Port Royal on July 1, 1989, featuring two of the most talented jazz artists of any generation: alto saxophonist Frank Morgan; and pianist George Cables. This is the second duet album they've released, the first being Contemporary's Double Image in 1987. A jazz duet is ...

Article: Under the Radar

Big in Japan, Part 2: Osaka & the Eri Yamamoto Connection

by Karl Ackermann
December 4, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 In Part 1 of Big in Japan we looked at the early history of jazz music in that country--a history that dates back to the same time frame as the Jazz Age in the United States. The influence of American dance music was indisputable but it came to Japan ...

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Helena Kay's KIM Trio: Moon Palace

Read "Moon Palace" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
December 1, 2018

Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year 2015, Helena Kay is joined on her debut album by Ferg Ireland on bass and David Ingamells on drums. Kay studied for a BMus Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 2016 with First Class Honours. She was also awarded the Anjool Malde ...

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Charlie Parker: Now's The Time

Read "Now's The Time" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
November 30, 2018

In the pantheon of jazz saxophonists, Charlie Parker has been among the most transformational of artists, despite not living nearly long enough to fulfill his potential. Parker's lifetime, as a principal architect of bebop, and a self-destructive force, has been documented ad nauseam but his music continues to significantly influence new generations. Since Parker's death in ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Massimo Colombo: Italy's Erudite Jazz Pianista

by Jim Worsley
November 26, 2018

Nestled in Northern Italy, the city of Milano is steeped in artistic tradition. Revolutionary in the historical sense in literature, music, art, science, and other scholarly endeavors, Milano is still today a hotbed of innovation and a source knowledge and creation. Enter one Massimo Colombo to the forefront of the conversation. A gifted jazz ...