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John Clark

Fruits Of Solitude

By FRANZ KOGLMANN

Label: ezz-thetics
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fruits of Solitude II; Martians Don't Go Home Anymore; For Max; Untitled; Garden with Blue Terrace; Salut Solal; Fruits of Solitude I; Finger Snapper; Leopard Lady; Fruits of Solitude III; Yellow Tango.

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

By JACK BOWERS

Lisa Maxwell, whose album Shiny! marks the recorded debut of her New York City-based Jazz Orchestra, is a pretty good composer and a very good arranger, even though several of her charts lean toward funk / rock, admittedly an acquired taste. Once she veers away from those two-beat cadences, as on “Ludie," “The Craw," “Hello, Wayne?" ...

Stretching Time

By FRED TOMPKINS

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Scherzo In 2 Keys, Eb Extensions, Afterthought, Fast Phonemes, Enigma, Curving Away, Asymmetry, Trio Finale, Ariana, Chinese Curtain, Postlude (from "Fanfare VI & Postlude - 1979)

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Esce in questi giorni, dopo una lunga gestazione, il debutto da leader di Lisa Maxwell, talentosa compositrice e arrangiatrice nota nell'ambiente del jazz statunitense e negli studios di registrazione. Lisa ha orchestrato e diretto colonne sonore per film e serie televisive, collaborato anche come sassofonista con gruppi rock (Guns 'n' Roses, Lenny Kravitz, Carole King), jazz ...

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights

By JEROME WILSON

In the '70s composer and arranger Gil Evans, after years of outstanding studio arranging for Miles Davis and others, put together a performing orchestra which took influences from the jazz-rock and fusion concepts of the time. That orchestra released several fine albums such as Svengali (Atlantic, 1973) and There Comes A Time (RCA, 1975) and, on ...

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures - Monday Night Sessions, vol 1

By JACK BOWERS

Even though the name Gil Evans has a hallowed ring these days, the late composer / arranger's music remains for many aficionados an acquired taste. On the other hand, while that is the Gil Evans Orchestra performing on Hidden Treasures, Volume 1, the lion's share of the music brought to light isn't his--Evans wrote only two ...

The Complete Jan Akkerman: Focusing on a Life's Work

By JOHN KELMAN

He may be largely regarded as the most influential guitarist to emerge from the Netherlands, a country that, bordering on the North Sea, is roughly one-quarter the physical size of England and, with a current number of about seventeen million, has just one-third the population of the UK's largest country. Still, despite garnering major in-country recognition, ...

Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures - Monday Night Sessions, vol 1

By ANGELO LEONARDI

A tre decenni dalla morte del suo leader, esce il 7 dicembre il nuovo disco della Gil Evans Orchestra finalmente registrato in studio. Com'è noto, sia gli ultimi album della band con l'arrangiatore ancora in vita, sia il postumo Tribute To Gil (Soul Note 1989), con la formazione orfana, erano registrazioni live, spesso acusticamente carenti. Per ...