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Article: Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC

Read "Live in NYC" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Live in NYC is vocalist Gretchen Parlato's eagerly awaited live recording and follow-up to 2011's excellent The Lost And Found (Obliqsound). Gretchen Parlato (Obliqsound, 2006) and 2011's In A Dream (Obliqsound) round out her catalog as a leader. That said, Parlato has been much more busy than would be indicated by her four recordings in eight ...

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Perelman - Shipp - Dickey - Cleaver: Enigma

Read "Enigma" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Even though Brazilian tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman is a renowned powerhouse amid his gusty and highly energized mode of attack, he's an expert when it comes to reconfiguring melodic content and refreshing previously stated themes on-the-fly. Nonetheless, the principal basis for his craft is ingrained within the art of improvisation as he usually works within small ...

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Halie Loren: Simply Love

Read "Simply Love" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Vocalist Halie Loren has never avoided love songs. Her spectacularly engaging Heart First (Justin Time, 2012) is actually full of them, but this program one-ups that album in the love department. Loren mixes and matches popular songs from a variety of sources and eras, throws in a few originals for good measure, and lets her warm ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Holland: Prism

Read "Dave Holland: Prism" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Two instruments that bassist Dave Holland has rarely incorporated into his projects have been piano and guitar, his only guitar-centric album coming sixteen years after his first release as a leader, Conference of the Birds (ECM, 1973), when he recruited Kevin Eubanks for a particularly powerful set on Extensions (ECM, 1989). It took Holland even longer--nearly ...

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Julian Lage: Living Lage

Read "Julian Lage: Living Lage" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

It's good to be Julian Lage. The former wunderkind is all grown up and living large, playing with some of the best musicians on the planet; that makes perfect sense, considering he's also one of them. The young guitarist has done his homework, paid his dues and earned his stripes, and now he's spreading his wings ...

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Dave Holland: Prism

Read "Prism" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Bassist Dave Holland first became a leader-on-record with Conference Of The Birds (ECM, 1973), a now-classic outré quartet session. That initial leader date portrayed Holland as a restless seeker, willing and eager to explore the inner workings of group dynamics and the outer reaches of convention, and he's done little to alter that perception of himself ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The New Gary Burton Quartet: Guided Tour

Read "The New Gary Burton Quartet: Guided Tour" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

For some, retirement means winding down and enjoying what life has to offer, after a lifetime spent with the daily grind of making a living. With most musicians, however, while making a living has been a not insignificant challenge, making music can hardly be called a daily grind; it's work, to be sure, but it's also ...

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Dave Holland: Prism

Read "Prism" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter

Although über-bassist Dave Holland made his bones with one of Miles Davis' early electric bands, the lion's share of the British native's own music has come from the acoustic side of the scale. As such, longtime Holland fans will receive a major shock with their first listen to Prism. Those fans will need open ears and ...

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Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Heralded guitar maestro Bill Frisell combines his 858 Quartet and Beautiful Dreamers units to impart another watermark on his Americana legacy, featuring an organic acoustic-electronic sketch of this picturesque area of California coastline. The album comprises nineteen-tracks, spanning Civil War-era country-chamber, undulating ostinatos, layered strings, parts, and even snippets of surf music on “The Big One." ...

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Oliver Jones: Just For My Lady

Read "Just For My Lady" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Pianist Oliver Jones has become something of a national treasure on the Canadian jazz scene over the past three decades. That's all the more remarkable considering the fact that this soon-to-be eighty year old didn't start making jazz recordings until he was in his 50s. In many respects, as his recording career has ...


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