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Article: Multiple Reviews

Criss Cross Records: The Healing Power Of Authenticity

by Chris May
January 19, 2023

When the founder of the Netherlands-based Criss Cross Jazz label, Gerry Teekens, passed away in 2019, there was an odds-on chance that Criss Cross would leave town with him. That is often the fate, in such circumstances, of organisations led by a singular visionary and defined by their personal aesthetic. The loss of the label would ...

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Favorites Revisited

By John Coltrane

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Naima; My Favorite Things; A Love Supreme (Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance, Psalm).

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My Favorite Things: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

By John Coltrane

Label: Rhino
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1 (mono): My Favorite Things; Everytime We Say Goodbye; Summertime; But Not For Me. Disc 2 (stereo): My Favorite Things; Everytime We Say Goodbye; Summertime; But Not For Me.

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Song Of Praise: New York 1965 Revisited

By John Coltrane

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Song of Praise; My Favorite Things; Afro Blue; One Down, One Up.

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New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited

By Ornette Coleman

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Garden of Souls; Toy Dance; We Now Interrupt for a Commercial; Broad Way Blues; Round Trip; Airborne; Love Call; Open to the Public; Check Out Time.

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Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub

By Elvin Jones

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Keiko's Birthday March; Gingerbread Boy; 13 Avenue B; My Funny Valentine; M.E..; On the Trail; Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; Raunchy Rita; Oleo.

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Article: Reassessing

Momentum Space

by Dan McClenaghan
December 27, 2022

Momentum Space was released in 1999 on Verve Records. Considering the players--saxophonist Dewey Redman, pianist Cecil Taylor and drummer Elvin Jones--the album didn't make much of a splash. Reviews were mixed, leaning toward the dismissive. Taylor was 70 at the time. Jones was in his early 70s and saxman Redman was in his late ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Gene Ess

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2022

Meet Gene Ess Award-winning guitarist, Gene Ess, draws upon a diverse background to form his unique style. Studying classical piano, Gene's early years were filled with the sounds of Beethoven and Chopin. Originally from Tokyo, Japan and growing up on a U.S. Air Force Base on Okinawa, Gene was simultaneously receiving a mix of influences: he ...

Article: Album Review

Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2022

Read "HUJE 2022" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 21, 2022

Recordings by the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble have been surfacing like clockwork each year since shortly after the orchestra was formed in 1975 by its first (and only) music director, Fred Irby III. Sometimes the albums have overall themes, while others (such as this one) are dedicated to one or more of the university's distinguished ...