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Article: Year in Review

Mark Sullivan's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2025

by Mark Sullivan
January 7, 2026

There must be an echo in here: like just about everyone else, I observe that there was a lot of great music released in what was otherwise an unsettling year. They ranged from hard bop (Words Fall Short, Belonging) to fusion (Hard Believer, Live at Berlin) to experimental (Trio of Bloom). Experimental guitarist Nels Cline appears ...

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Hard Believer

By Brad Shepik

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Hard Believer; Broken English; In the Weeds; Corduroy; Falling Grace; Ranglin; Pilgrimage; Rocinante.

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Believers: Hard Believer

Read "Hard Believer" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 13, 2025

Veterano della scena downtown newyorchese (da ricordare almeno il Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio, il quartetto Pachora con Jim Black, Chris Speed e Skuli Sverrisson, le collaborazioni con Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, le registrazioni con Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band o il Paradox Trio con Matt Darriau, Rufus Cappadocia e ...

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Brad Shepik: Hard Believer

Read "Hard Believer" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 3, 2025

The first burst of noise from a recording can be telling, predictive of what will come. The Believers' Hard Believer title tune says as much. A guitar, bass and drums group, the music comes to life with some resonant metallic chords. The drums and bass push their weight around. It is assertive music laid down with ...

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Believers: Hard Believer

Read "Hard Believer" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 1, 2025

Belief--the cornerstone of conceptual development and the impetus for any pursuit, artistic or otherwise--is central to the shared mission binding guitarist Brad Shepik, bassist Sam Minaie and drummer/percussionist John Hadfield in this aptly titled trio. Through their eponymous 2020 debut--a strong album that flew under the radar due to its pandemic-era release timing--these three established an ...

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