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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 ...
