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Article: Album Review

Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch: Feebles, Fables And Ferns

Read "Feebles, Fables And Ferns" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny

Recorded in Fred Hersch's New York studio in August 1988, Feebles, Fables and Ferns captures a rare, one-time meeting between two luminaries who were both active in Boston at the time. That it has taken nearly four decades to reach the public is a question the music itself seems to answer: this is not the kind ...

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Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk: Live In Paris 1967 Volume One

Read "Live In Paris 1967 Volume One" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner

The discography of Thelonious Monk, bebop architect, composer of enduring standards and idiosyncratically influential pianist, is vast. In addition to Monk's genre-defining studio recordings, several live sets were released during his lifetime, including a notable series put out by Columbia Records during Monk's time on that most major of major labels, from 1962 to 1968. Live ...

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Article: Album Review

Helen Sung Big Band: Oracles

Read "Oracles" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

"The jazz bandstand is where true democracy lives," the great saxophonist and composer Jimmy Heath told a young Helen Sung. “Everyone must understand their role and come prepared by doing the hard work of study and practice," he said. “Each person will get to say their piece, but it is in the act of integrating as ...

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Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch: Feebles, Fables And Ferns

Read "Feebles, Fables And Ferns" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan

Feebles, Fables and Ferns captures a rare duo session between guitarist Mick Goodrick and pianist Fred Hersch. Recorded in August 1988 at Hersch's studio in New York, the album provides an intimate display of the superbly matched improvisational skills of two musicians in full flight. During his career, Goodrick perfected the art of avoiding ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt White: Matt White's Dolly

Read "Matt White's Dolly" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

A miniature doll-like effigy of the great country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton adorns the cover of trumpeter-composer Matt White's Dolly. How did the Queen of Country become the subject of this fascinating (if awkwardly-branded) mainstream jazz album? Happenstance. White was researching Gullah songs for his 2023 album, Lowcountry (Ropeadope), when YouTube “Pandorized" him into ...

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Connor Bernhard: Pathways

Read "Pathways" reviewed by Jeff Cebulski

by Jeff Cebulski

Nearly five years after his debut album Altitude (BASE Records, 2020), Chicago trumpeter Connor Bernhard gathered most of that album's cohorts for his second recording as a leader, Pathways. What also returns is the same bright, engaging horn that distinguishes Bernhard and lifts the proceedings significantly. His band--the three repeaters Julius Tucker on piano, Jeff Swanson ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Greg Hutchinson, Finger on the Pulse

Read "Greg Hutchinson, Finger on the Pulse" reviewed by David Bixler

by David Bixler

Drummer Greg Hutchinson has been the heartbeat of the New York City jazz scene for over three decades, bringing a signature fire to the bands of legends like Betty Carter, Roy Hargrove, and Joshua Redman. Known as one of the most soulful and technically gifted drummers of his generation, 'Hutch' is now stepping further into the ...

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Article: Album Review

AS IS, featuring Al & Stacey Schulman: Crazy World

Read "Crazy World" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

What does it take to turn a romantic Cole Porter song into a powerful nine-minute protest piece? The band AS IS teases it out with a bit of a false trail to begin with: a tasty little scat intro, nicely-arranged. You might not suspect. Stacey Schulman brings the head in with a slight tweak to the lyric ...

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Article: Inside the Songs

Thomas Strønen Time Is A Blind Guide: Off Stillness

Read "Thomas Strønen Time Is A Blind Guide: Off Stillness" reviewed by Dean Nardi

by Dean Nardi

During his Time Is A Blind Guide reunion with keyboardist Ayumi Tanaka, cellist Leo Svensson Sander (replacing Lucy Railton), violinist Håkon Aase and double-bassist Ole Morten Vågan on Off Stillness (ECM Records, 2025), Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen lands in a peculiar, improvised pocket. Brushed rhythms, unusual violin counterpoints, verbose bass, pizzicato cello and fractured piano arpeggios lend ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Emilio Solla: Keeping the Human Connection

Read "Emilio Solla: Keeping the Human Connection" reviewed by David Bixler

by David Bixler

In a world that is increasingly anchored by AI and social media, pianist and composer Emilio Solla champions the human connection on his new recording Handmade, with his nonet, La Inestable de Brooklyn. Swimming in his imagination are jazz, tango, classical, and other Argentinian folkloric music, which all cohesively co-exist in this exciting musical offering.


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