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Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100
by Dan McClenaghan
The Mark Masters Ensemble released Porgy and Bess Redefined! (Capri Records) in 2005. The music was taken from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward English-language opera, which was first performed in 1935. Masters' take on the classic was brilliantly expressed by the ensemble, who dug into his adventurous charts with freedom mixed with respect for the familiar and ...
Ryan Truesdell: Shades Of Sound
by Pierre Giroux
Ryan Truesdell's Shades of Sounds: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 is a triumphant continuation of his lovingly curated Gil Evans Project--a musical venture focusing on both preservation and revelation. With this latest volume, Truesdell guides us through Evans' well-known sonic landscape and deeper into the vaults, unearthing four never-before-recorded arrangements that offer ...
Past, Present, And, Future Sounds
by Bob Osborne
The most fascinating and enduring aspect of jazz, and other improvised music, is its' capacity to surprise the listener. This week a diverse collection of pieces that deliver different and ground breaking new sounds. At the centre Ingrid Laubrock's unique new album which is meets this specification and more. And to close a classic album from ...
Dave Monsch: Struttin' at the Winedale
by Dean Nardi
Dallas-based saxophonist and flautist Dave Monsch wants his debut album to catch listeners' attention. “I don't feel that it is a predictable album," he stated through an email exchange with AAJ. “There are so many different types of songs and styles, I would hope that something will grab them, if not all of it."
Song For Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
by Ian Patterson
Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13-978-178179 Equinox Publishing 2025 If only for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing Kenny Wheeler stands as one of the modern greats, marrying linear lyricism and free-jazz expression like no-one else. ...
Josephine Davies & The Ensō Ensemble: The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite
by Angelo Leonardi
Sassofonista e compositrice britannica, nota per il trio Satori, Josephine Davies debutta con un ricco e raffinato progetto orchestrale, che presenta la sua suite in otto parti ispirata alle feste stagionali celtiche delle isole Shetland. “Dopo aver composto diversi pezzi per orchestra jazz" --ha detto Josephine--"ispirata da un trasferimento in campagna durante il lockdown, ...
David Robbins: Happy Faces
by Pierre Giroux
The release of Happy Faces by the Dave Robbins Big Band is a landmark event in Vancouver, B.C. jazz history. More than a mere archival recording, this revelatory issue celebrates the enduring legacy of a seminal figure who shaped the course of large ensemble jazz in Canada and beyond. Robbins, a trombonist, composer and visionary band ...
Michael Bisio: NuMBq
by Mark Corroto
Michael Bisio borrows the phrase “and now for something completely different" from Monty Python's Flying Circus to describe his new quartet, NuMBq. Joining the bassist is longtime collaborator Jay Rosen on drums, along with two musicians traditionally rooted in classical music: violist Melanie Dyer and English horn player Marianne Osiel. With NuMBq, Bisio blurs the line ...
Barry Deister Quintet: An African Suite
by Scott Lichtman
It is not uncommon for jazz artists to borrow from world music to enliven their pieces--adding a dash of spice as it were. It is even rarer (with Latin jazz being an exception) for musicians to dive deeply into indigenous music forms and deliver an authentic, integrated sonic concept. Most unique are album-length projects that successfully ...
Brussels Jazz Orchestra & Naima Joris: Saudade
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo il disco con Camille Bertault dedicato a Serge Gainsbourg del 2023, la Brussels Jazz Orchestra torna a incidere con una cantante e presenta al pubblico del jazz Naima Joris, singer-songwriter molto apprezzata nell'Europa settentrionale per le sue interpretazioni introspettive ed evanescenti. Figlia di Chris Joris, uno dei protagonisti del jazz in Belgio, Naima ...
