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Jesse Whitman

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2020-2023

by Robert Middleton
December 26, 2023

In the 72 Jazz Thrillers series we've gone from 1969 to 2023, an expansive 54-year journey. From the jazz vanguard of Bitches Brew to the dynamic movie soundtrack of Roy's World, from the sublime guitar of Bill Frisell to the singing guitar of Charlie Ballantine, the thing that all these jazz albums have in common is ...

Falling Grace

By Charlie Ballantine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Thank You; Sweet Tooth; River's Dream; Contemplation; Fix You; Snow Angel; Falling Grace; Contemplation.

Amanda Gardier: Empathy

by Mike Jurkovic
July 26, 2018

With a clear sense of composition and where her own fluid voice, and those of her superb surrounding musicians, fall within the whole, Indiana-based alto saxophonist Amanda Gardier opens her debut disc, Empathy, on the multi-layered strengths of the palette-setting “Giants," an expansive piece that allows her plenty of time in the lead before gracefully stepping ...