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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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The Gennett Suite

By Brent Wallarab

Label: Patrois Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Movement 1--Royal Blue: Introduction; Tin Roof Blues, Part 1; Tim Roof Blues, Part 2; Chimes Blues; Dippermouth Blues. Movement 2--Blues Faux Bix: Davenport Blues; The Jazz Me Blues; Interlude; Wolverine Blues. Disc 2: Movement 3: Hoagland--Stardust; Riverboat Shuffle, Part 1; Riverboat Shuffle, Part 2. Movement 4--Mr. Jelly Lord: King Porter Stomp; Grandpa's Spells.

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Folklore

By Sam Butler

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Suspension (Adrift, Glide); When the Darkness Reaches Morning; I. At Night, and Then Upon Waking; II. Ramifications; Storybook; Other Half; The Primrose Path; Feeling; Premonition, Acuity, Flourish.

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Both Sides of Joni

By Monika Herzig

Label: ACME Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Help Me; Both Sides Now; I Think I Understand; River; Don't Interrupt the Sorrow; My Old Man; The Hissing of Summer Lawns; Sweet Bird; The Circle Game.

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Gnosis

By Ethan Philion

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Boot; What Love; Sheep Shank; Nostalgia; Comment Section; Gnosis.

Article: Album Review

Ethan Philion: Gnosis

by John Chacona
November 23, 2023

When it comes to making memorable entrances, Ethan Philion is on a par with Seinfeld's Kramer. The Chicago bassist burst into the scene with Meditations on Mingus (Sunnyside Records, 2022), an audacious debut recording on which he arranged familiar selections and deep cuts from the towering jazz bassist Charles Mingus. On Gnosis, the forces are smaller ...

Article: Album Review

Rami Atassi: Dancing Together

Read "Dancing Together" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
September 25, 2023

The Chicago-based guitarist Rami Atassi went on a south American journey with his wife to explore Mexico and Colombia. Amid the daily background music, he heard different styles and rhythmic foundations than those he was used to and took percussion lessons locally. All this later began seeping into his solo work. A Syrian-American, Atassi ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 11, 2023

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Few Of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (So Far) - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 22, 2023

A retrospective of some of the most compelling tunes we heard in the first half of 2023, distilled for your enjoyment.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Michael Blake's Chroma Nova “Little Demons" Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M) 0:16 Host talks 6:50 Thomas Naïm ...