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Freedom Trane

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: The Seeker; Lonnie's Lament; Freedom Trane; Paul's Pal; Prayer
and Meditation; Just Words; Naima; Welcome
Songs of Earth

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Deayru; Poem; Montoya; Joe and Jane; Little Angel; The Enchanted Loom; To Be.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012

by Dan McClenaghan
Scores of excellent CDs were released in 2012. These are some of the finest. Click on the CD titles for more in depth reviews. Hal Galper Airegin Revisited Origin Records Pianist Hal Galper has been delving deeply into his rubato explorations of the standards, along with his ...
Jeff Johnson: Suitcase

by Dan McClenaghan
Bassist Jeff Johnson traveled the United States from the 1970s until 1990. He followed the work during his time of transience, and played an array of styles, from R&B to country, from blues to pop, and jazz. Then he put his suitcase down in Seattle and evolved into something of a house bassist for Origin Records, ...
Markus Burger / Joe LaBarbera / Bob Magnusson: Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions

by Dan McClenaghan
Sometimes a definite connect exists between cover art and the music. German-born pianist Markus Burger's Accidental Tourists: The L.A. Sessions features a glossy cover photo full of reflections and right angle geometry, a sleek car with rounded contours. The music on this trio offering has a well-crafted geometry of its own, and a bright sheen brought ...
Jessica Williams: Songs of Earth

by Dan McClenaghan
Jessica Williams, with her last four CDs on Origin Records, is like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. Earlier in her career, Williams--who once held the piano chair in drummer Philly Joe Jones band--wrapped her artistry in the Great American Song on Some Ballads Some Blues (Red and Blue, 1999), along with stellar tributes to ...
Poem

Album: Songs of Earth
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 5:51
Jessica Williams Trio: Freedom Trane

by Jeff Winbush
It is no coincidence that pianist Jessica Williams draws inspiration and energy from saxophonist John Coltrane, another iconoclast whose dogged pursuit of his individalistic muse stood in defiance of trends, customs, critics, and marketplace concerns. Like Coltrane, Williams prides herself in being relentlessly faithful to her own standards of how to play and how to market ...
The Seeker

Album: Freedom Trane
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 8:51
Jessica Williams: Freedom Trane

by Dan McClenaghan
Jessica WilliamsFreedom TraneOrigin Records2011 Jessica Williams, one of our top jazz pianists, has evolved since she tossed the record company expectations and jazz games out the window into the thorny rose bushes, and sought out her own way, and found it, via the establishment of her own ...