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Article: Extended Analysis

Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970

by Peter Rubie
February 24, 2022

They called it the Cool School, but what's in a name?In this case, quite a lot as it happens. The Cool School included musicians like Chet Baker, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Dave Brubeck. Under the guidance of arranger and composer Gil Evans, it established itself in an unquestionable way with ...

Article: Six Picks

2021’s Overlooked and Underrated Gems

by Pat Youngspiel
February 17, 2022

Giovanni Guidi Ojos De Gato CAM Jazz 2021 In a year where saxophone roots-revivalist James Brandon Lewis made headlines everywhere --topping multiple year end lists for his collaboration with the Red Lily quartet on Jesup Wagon (among numerous placements in jazz publications around the globe for that album and ...

Article: Interview

Unscientific Italians: Frisellian Magic

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 22, 2021

If Italian film director Nanni Moretti had been born in 1973 instead of 1953, he might well have set the iconic Vespa ride through the empty streets of a languid, mid-August Rome in Caro Diario against a Bill Frisell rather than a Keith Jarrett soundtrack. Because if every era is defined by a limited ...

Article: Album Review

Steel Bridge Trio: Different Clocks

Read "Different Clocks" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 25, 2015

Heard at the imaginary music awards ceremony, “and the winner of the quietest and most accessible avant-garde recording of 2015 (dramatic pause), Different Clocks by Steel Bridge Trio." “Accepting the award for the trio is Jimmy Giuffre and Eric Dolphy. If there were such awards, and certainly there should be, Chicagoan Tim Daisy would ...

Article: Album Review

Errol Rackipov Group: Pictures From A Train Window

Read "Pictures From A Train Window" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
March 25, 2015

There's a lot going on here: all manner of different musical influences and moods. Errol Rackipov (vibes and marimba), hails originally from Bulgaria. In his sleeve note, he likens life to a train ride on which we glimpse reflections of our past, present and future out of the window. The wistful, yet driving ...