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Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry
by Hrayr Attarian
Pianist Michael McNeill approaches music like an abstract painter. Thus his work is dynamic, multi-hued, and textured. The captivating Barcode Poetry, his fourth album as a leader, finds him expanding his palette with unorthodox instrumentation. His quartet includes, in addition to trumpeter Dave Ballou and percussionist Shelly Purdy, innovative pedal guitarist Susan Alcorn whose passing a ...
A Beautiful Day
Album: A Beautiful Day, Revisited
By Andrew Hill
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 11:57
Long As You're Living
By Lisa Rich
Label: Tritone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Long As Youre Living, Throw It Away, When I Look In Your Eyes, New Morning Blues, Lonely Woman, Isotope, A Timeless Place (The Peacocks), Jitterbug Waltz, Close Your Eyes, Ask Me Now, Bye Bye Blackbird,
Haperchance/Drifting Dreaming (Gymnopedie 1).
Barcode Poetry
Label: Infrasonic Press
Released: 2024
Track listing: Timeigrant; Barcode Poetry; Elegy; As a Metaphor (take 2); Branches; As a Metaphor (take 1);
Double Memory.
A Beautiful Day, Revisited
By Andrew Hill
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD 1: Divine Revelation; Faded Beauty; New Pinnochio; A Beautiful Day. CD 2: J Di; 5 Mo; Bellezza; A Beautiful Day (Thursday); 11/8.
Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry
by Troy Dostert
Pianist Michael McNeill has pursued a number of projects since his debut release, Passageways, in 2013, each of which has defined his distinctive niche as a musician informed by both avant-garde and conventional jazz. On Barcode Poetry, it is the former impulse that prevails, as McNeill and his esteemed colleagues--Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar, Dave ...
Lisa Rich: Long As You're Living
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With Long As You're Living ace jazz vocalist m: Lisa Rich and a team of New York A-listers soar across a dozen tracks of superior jazz. The album, her first since Highwire (Tritone Records, 2019) is a tour de force of musical talents and it once again validates Rich as one of our finest vocal artists. ...
Vocalist Lisa Rich's Stunning Comeback, 'Long As You're Living'
After a long hiatus, vocalist Lisa Rich is releasing her newest album, Long As You're Living, a collection primarily of standards that reflect many of the trials, tribulations, and life lessons she has experienced over the years. Rich had a burgeoning career in the 1980s until she was sidelined with a debilitating illness. But with determination ...
Tony Malaby and Firebath Ignite the Jazz Gallery
by Dave Kaufman
I had the great pleasure of seeing Tony Malaby perform at The Jazz Gallery. Malaby moved to Boston a couple of years ago to take up a teaching position at Berklee. Although he continues to perform in New York City, I had not seen him live since he moved. On this occasion, his band presented the ...
Julius Hemphill, Nels Cline and Eberhard Weber
by Jerome Wilson
I have been having temporary difficulties in uploading my recent radio shows. While I work on that, here is a program from July 27, 2021, that features the usual wide variety of musicians. This show includes Julius Hemphill, Nels Cline, Brian Woodruff, and Eberhard Weber. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait To Get ...
