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Stephen Arnold & Sea Change: The Hitting Wall
by Jack Bowers
Although is difficult to pinpoint the precise thread that ties them together, bassist and composer Stephen Arnold envisions the 14 songs of The Hitting Wall as a suite, albeit one whose parts are at times more divergent than complementary, compositionally and in terms of groove. Arnold leads an able sextet whose horn section is ...
Michel Petrucciani / Dave Holland / Eliot Zigmund: Kuumbwa
by Jack Bowers
Michel Petrucciani was not blessed with a long life. What the French-born jazz pianist was blessed with was an enormous talent, one most people could not amass in several lifetimes. Petrucciani was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that led to brittle bones, stunted his growth and left him in almost constant pain--the ...
Mike Clark: Kuon Ganjo
by Jack Bowers
Not much is really new on veteran drummer Mike Clark's 2026 album, Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), which encompasses a series of nine hard-bop themes performed by Clark's able quintet. Having said that, the most reasonable question is, do they do it well? And the answer to that is an unequivocal yes. Clark, who ...
Clark Sommers: WaBaSH
by Jack Bowers
Wabash is the name of a river in Indiana and Illinois, an avenue in Chicago and, what is most relevant to this recording, the name of the quartet that performs on the avenue, a respectable group led by bassist Clark Sommers. Sommers' WaBaSH ensemble varies from the quartet norm in that two of its ...
Arman Sangalang: Waypoints
by Jack Bowers
Waypoints, the second recording by Chicago-based tenor saxophonist Arman Sangalang's quartet, continues on a path similar to his first, Arman Sangalang Quartet (Calligram, 2023), leaning on original compositions and closing with a perennially popular standard, Johnny Green's “Body & Soul." Sangalang is a splendid player, blending a strong and persuasive solo voice with precise ...
Tia Fuller & Shamie Fuller-Royston: Fuller Sound: Dynasty (Volume 2)
by Jack Bowers
On Dynasty, Volume 2, sisters in song Tia Fuller and Shamie Fuller-Royston continue a family musical tradition once shared with their late parents, Fred and Elthopia Fuller as the Fuller Sound. Now it is essentially an alto saxophone (Tia) and piano (Shamie) duo, with Tia adding her voice on two numbers, her own “Momma Said" and ...
David Blake Quartet: Radio Casual
by Jack Bowers
To gain a clear picture of the sort of high-caliber straight-ahead jazz Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist David Blake's quartet has to offer on Radio Casual, go directly to “Nut Bread," the second track, bypassing the more offbeat, effects-enhanced opener, “Jonas with a View" (the “Jonas" presumably a reference to the group's drummer, Jonas Esser). There is one ...
Will Lyle: The All Seeing Eye
by Jack Bowers
According to bassist Will Lyle, his mentor the late drummer Ralph Peterson Jr. once told him that an album is like a snapshot--a picture of where you are musically at that unique point in time. After scanning the personnel list on Lyle's latest recording, The All Seeing Eye, a second piece of advice must have been, ...
Rob van Bavel: The Ghost, the King and I featuring Scott Hamilton & Strings
by Jack Bowers
As near as can be deduced, The Ghost, the King and I is a Netherlands-based trio comprised of pianist Rob van Bavel, guitarist Vincent Koning and bassist Frans van Geest. After performing in concert with acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton and Salon de Musique, a three-member string group from South Korea, van Bavel and his ...
Jun Iida: Bellflower
by Jack Bowers
Bellflower, trumpeter Jun Iida's second recording, is a cordial and even-tempered survey of nine of his original compositions and one by the late Japanese composer Nujabes, ably performed by Iida's talented sextet with spoken word by Zelda Harris on Iida's heartfelt response to warfare and its anguish, “Will They Remember?" While Iida is a ...
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