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Steve Lehman Quartet: Manifold
by Greg Camphire
Coming hot on the heels of his quintet release, On Meaning, productive saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman switches labels to drop Manifold, an intriguing quartet club performance captured live at Portugal's Jazz ao Centro Festival. With a strong cast of trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist John Hebert, Lehman embraces an expansive set of musical agendas ...
Tony Malaby: Tamarindo
by Greg Camphire
Portugal's Clean Feed label is fast proving itself as one of the flagship supporters of modern jazz and improvised music around the world, with an international roster that includes some of the finest working musicians across America, Europe and beyond. Among its latest batch of impressive releases is Tamarindo, which captures the hardcore New York City ...
Ron Blake: Shayari
by Greg Camphire
Following excursions in the worlds of pop, funk and Latin music, saxophonist Ron Blake veers back towards jazz with Shayari, a series of acoustic duets and trios featuring a revolving lineup of A-list sidemen. Mixing up original compositions written or co-written by Blake along with a handful of standards, the album is a varied and well-paced ...
The Jason Steele Ensemble: Some Wonderful Moment
by Greg Camphire
The Jason Steele Ensemble makes its recording debut with the unique Some Wonderful Moment, marking an auspicious start for the guitar-playing bandleader/composer and his promising group of creative instrumentalists. Based out of Chicago, a city that has a long tradition of cross-fertilization among many disciplines of music, Steele and his compatriots combine elements of jazz and ...
3 Cohens: Braid
by Greg Camphire
To the ranks of soulful jazz families like the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel-Aviv, a talented Israeli combo featuring tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen and her brothers Yuval on soprano sax and Avishai on trumpet, who are hitting their stride ...
Warren Smith: Natural/Cultural Forces
by Greg Camphire
Multi-talented percussionist Warren Smith is one of the most versatile and inventive musicians to ever emerge from the fertile New York-based scene, though he may lack the name recognition of some of his more famous peers and collaborators, including Max Roach's all-star M'Boom ensemble, Gil Evans, Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton. Natural/Cultural Forces, which encompasses a ...
Paul Bley/Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon/Cecil Taylor: Imagine the Sound
by Greg Camphire
Paul Bley/Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon/Cecil Taylor Imagine the Sound Films We Like 1981/2007 The state of jazz in America in 1981 has remained a sort of lost history, in no small part due to the resounding indifference met by a brilliant film of the same year: Imagine the Sound. Now, with ...
Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival
by Greg Camphire
As part of the series of recordings launching the Monterey Jazz Festival's new record label, this previously unreleased 1964 set by Thelonious Monk offers a glimpse of the maestro with an augmented version of his working quartet of the time, during which the pianist was finally receiving much-deserved mainstream attention from the public. Monk can be ...
The Jason Lindner Big Band: Live At The Jazz Gallery
by Greg Camphire
Keyboardist Jason Lindner has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for some time now, working in a variety of capacities for different projects; but his distinctive musical character shines brightest through his long-running big band, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2005, when Anzic Records' Live At The Jazz Gallery was recorded.
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
by Greg Camphire
Like its historic 2005 discovery of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Records has unearthed another masterpiece from the vaults with Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964. The double-disc collection is a monumental portrayal of an all-star group at the height of its powers, led by the bassist/composer ...
