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The Call
Album: Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures
By Frank Swart
Label: Need To Know
Released: 2023
Duration: 3:50
Bill Evans / Chet Baker / Sonny Stitt: Cold Case Investigations Strike Gold
by Chris May
Jazz detective Zev Feldman and Elemental Records have notched up more cold-case discoveries with albums by Bill Evans, Chet Baker and Sonny Stitt. The discs are scheduled for release in late April 2023, round about Record Store Day. None of the material has previously been available. All three albums are more than good and the Evans ...
Idris Ackamoor, Jasper Hoiby, Die Hochstapler & Monder/Malaby/Rainey
by Maurice Hogue
A band that has endured since the 70s when they were one of the first American bands to tour Africa, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, have just re-released some of that early music, and we dig into that, plus new music from Germany's Die Hochstapler, Toronto's Luis Deniz, bassist Nicolas Ojeda from Buenos Aires & Jasper ...
On the Road With Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
by Gioele Pagliaccia
The first time I met Idris Ackamoor was inside of Centro Stabile di Cultura on a Sunday afternoon in November 2018. The organizers at this historical venue in San Vito di Leguzzano, a small village half hour from Vicenza surrounded by foundries and wheat fields, asked me if I could lend my Ludwig Drums to the ...
Albert Ayler & New York Contemporary Five: Revisited, Remastered, Resplendent
by Chris May
The Swiss-based ezz-thetics label was launched in 2019 by Hat Hut Records' founder, Werner X. Uehlinger, and its Revisited strand is a jazz aficionado's dream. The series is devoted to landmark avant-garde recordings from the 1960s, and ezz-thetics does more than simply reissue them. Peter Pfister, Uehlinger's longtime mastering Jedi, improves the audio quality of the ...
On the Road con Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
by Gioele Pagliaccia
La prima volta che vidi Idris Ackamoor fu al Centro Stabile di Cultura una domenica nel novembre 2018. Gli organizzatori di questo storico locale a San Vito di Leguzzano, un piccolo paese a mezz'ora da Vicenza circondato da fonderie e campi di grano, mi avevano chiesto se potevo prestare la mia Ludwig al batterista dei Pyramids, ...
Logan Richardson: To Boldly Go Where No Jazz Has Gone Before
by Chris May
In a 2016 interview, jny: Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson said: “Jazz will constantly change because there's constantly a new us, new times. There will always be a fight from the conformists--but they don't represent where the tradition is coming from." Richardson was talking not long after the release of his adventurous Blue Note album, ...
Shaman!
Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Act 1: Shaman; Tango Of Love; Act 2: Eternity; When Will I See You Again?; Act 3: Salvation; Theme For Cecil; Act 4: Virgin; The Last Slave Ship; Dogon Mysteries.
Chris May’s Best Releases Of 2020
by Chris May
Not the best year for live gigs in London, but Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra just made it under the wire, lighting up the Jazz Cafe in late January. Rather like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Sosimi's band has form as an incubator of young talent. A recent star in the making was trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, who has ...
Various Artists: Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
by Chris May
The significance of this superb compilation is summed up by a fuzzy b&w photo inside the twenty-eight page accompanying booklet. It shows Oneness Of Juju gathered round a twenty-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty in their hometown, Richmond, Virginia in 1976. You can just make out the expressions of optimism and, yes, patriotism on the ...
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