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Even Odds

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: It Is What It Is; The Children of Uvalde; Bu; Rising; Recover the Mindset; M and M; Horizontal Lifestyle; Vertical Lifestyle; Five to Nine; Ititrefen; Too Many Outs; Runner-Runner; Nineteen to the Dozen; Max Roach; Bribes and Ultimatums; Royal Beatings; Fathers and Daughters; Peculiar Pathos of Self Importance; Conversing With Stillness; Nusrat.

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Dan Weiss: Even Odds

Read "Even Odds" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Drummer and composer Dan Weiss turns his experiments and percussion exercises into compositions on this trio recording Even Odds. In other words, he composes, not on a piano, but with his drum kit for the twenty tracks heard here. That fact may not be groundbreaking except that Weiss recorded those tracks and sent the music to ...

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It Is What It Is

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Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Duration: 3:38

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Dan Weiss: Even Odds

Read "Even Odds" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


To say that “It Is What It Is"--regarding drummer/composer Dan Weiss's feverish first track on the fervently episodic Even Odds--misses the whole point entirely. It could be anything. And within its spacious yet oddly claustrophobic three-and-a-half minutes, evolutions come and go in real time. And real time is a bitch if you cannot keep up.

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Live in Brooklyn

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Thisness (Part One)/Kudzu; Lush Life/Dog Star; Mischief/Caduceus Steps; Thisness (Part Two)/Rise and Shine.

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Trickster: Live in Brooklyn

Read "Live in Brooklyn" reviewed by Troy Dostert


If one is looking for an artist whose ambition and indefatigable spirit seemed destined to withstand the rigors of the Covid pandemic and its deleterious impact on the jazz community, guitarist Miles Okazaki could be near the top of the list. A prolific and well-recorded musician before 2020, he maintained a rigorously creative schedule after it ...

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For Tim Smith

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Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:39

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Dedication

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: For Tim Smith; For Vivienne; For Nancarrow; For George Floyd; For Jacob; For Andrei Tarkovsky; For Bacharach; For Elvin; For Grandma May.

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Dan Weiss Trio: Dedication

Read "Dedication" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Approaching any Dan Weiss album requires a willingness to be challenged. From head-scratching time signatures to fascinating shifts in mood and texture, Weiss gives intrepid listeners a number of pathways into his music, and his releases always justify repeated encounters. Dedication, his latest with his regular trio partners pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Thomas Morgan, is ...


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