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Ethan Philion: Gnosis
by John Chacona
When it comes to making memorable entrances, Ethan Philion is on a par with Seinfeld's Kramer. The Chicago bassist burst into the scene with Meditations on Mingus (Sunnyside Records, 2022), an audacious debut recording on which he arranged familiar selections and deep cuts from the towering jazz bassist Charles Mingus. On Gnosis, the forces are smaller ...
Some of the Things You Are
Album: Four Windows
By Zubin Edalji
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:36
Geof Bradfield Quintet: Quaver
by Jack Bowers
While tenor saxophonist Geof Bradfield's versatile Chicago-based quintet does not play “free jazz" on Quaver-- customary rhythmic and harmonic precepts underline every number--the music is explicitly adventurous and forward-looking, as Bradfield and his mates seize every chance to take flight within prescribed boundaries. All the compositions are Bradfield's, and they range from powerful ...
Fishin' Again
Album: Fishin' Again: A Tribute to Clyde Stubblefield & Dr. Lonnie Smith
By Dan Trudell
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 10:38
Rodney Whitaker: Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Jack Bowers
Oasis is the third time around for bassist Rodney Whitaker and music written by fellow Michigander Gregg Hill, following Common Ground (Origin 82780) and Outrospection (Origin 82819). Personnel is the same as on Common Ground (Terell Stafford, trumpet; Tim Warfield, saxophone; Bruce Barth, piano; Dana Hall, drums; Rockelle Fortin, vocals) with Hall and Fortin returning from ...
More Jazz From 2022
by Jerome Wilson
The year 2022 produced a bumper crop of worthwhile jazz recordings, so many it was impossible to give all of them their due in a timely fashion. Here are belated appreciations of six titles that deserve praise. Doug Wamble Blues In The Present Tense Halcyonic Records 2022 ...
Meditations On Mingus
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America; Haitian Fight Song; Self-
Portrait in Three Colors; Pithecanthropus Erectus; Prayer for Passive; Resistance; Meditations on a Pair
of Wirecutters; Remember Rockefeller at Attica; Better Git It In Your Soul.
Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Betty’s Tune; Puppets; Minorabilia; Interlude; Sunday Afternoon; The Jazzdiddy Waltz; S’Cool Days; Blues for
Gregg; Fan-O-Gram; To the Well; Oasis.
Noli Me Tángere
Label: Next Level
Released: 2022
Track listing: Alin Mang Lahi; Kundiman ni Rizal; Canto de María Clara; Noli Me Tángere suite:I. A Son Returns, II. Cruelty and Injustice, III. Education for All, IV. Revolution and Liberation.
Life in Time
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Asherah; Little Gold Fish; Intention and Commitment; Life in Time; Lost and Found; Shade; Guimaraes;
Locomotive Sunflower; The Color of the Wall of the Room That Reminded Me; Song for Kamala.
