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Raphael Imbert Trio: N_Y Project
by Bruce Lindsay
Bookending eleven of your own tunes with Duke Ellington's Echoes of Harlem" and John Coltrane's Central Park West" is a bold decision for any jazz musician to make--it's a confident statement and a risky one. On N_Y Project the decision pays off--saxophonist Raphael Imbert's compositions have their own strengths and innovations, ensuring that they stand such ...
Craig Taborn: A Study in Contrasts
by Tom Greenland
Jonathon Haffner Life On Wednesday Cachuma Records 2009 Lotte Anker Floating Islands ILK 2009 Craig Taborn's seemingly innocuous musings have a way of sneaking up on you, ...
Craig Taborn Trio at the Vortex, London, England
by John Sharpe
Craig Taborn Trio Vortex London, England December 7, 2009 Judging by the number of young musicians in the audience, pianist Craig Taborn has something of a reputation among the cognoscenti. That many of them were pianists too just whetted the appetite even more for his leadership debut in the UK ...
Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor
by Joel Roberts
The title of firebrand trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's Men of Honor refers to the members of his quintet who, like their leader here, are among the foremost 30-something neo-bop players in jazz today. The album is a follow-up to Pelt's acclaimed November (MAXJAZZ, 2008), which marked this all-acoustic quintet's debut, and came on the heels of a ...
Samo Salamon Trio: Live!
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitar, drums and tuba may not be one of jazz music's classic combinations, but on Live! Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon's trio shows that such a line-up can deliver creative, tight and engaging performances that are easily a match for more traditional ensembles. Salamon is a prolific musician, whose history includes work with John ...
Farmers By Nature
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2009
Track listing: Korteh Khah; The Night; Cranes; Not Unlike Number 10; In Trees; Fieda Mytlie.
ECM at 40: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 3-6, October 22-25, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12 ECM at 40. It's hard to believe that a record label responsible for stretching the boundaries of modern music has survived the various crises that have threatened and, in some cases, decimated so many others. With Enjoy Jazz's The Blue Sound: 40 Years ...
Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...
September 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...
Yaron Herman Trio: Muse
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If music could exist outside of time--not as in rhythm, but as in the time-space continuum--then it might sound like the glassy, ice-hot pianism of Yaron Herman. How did he get to inhabit this spare soundscape in almost suspended animation? Perhaps it is because he is powered by the magic of an uninhibited soul--that and the ...


