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Douyé: The Golden Sèkèrè
by Dave Linn
Nigerian-born Douye grew up in Lagos as part of a music-loving family. She joined the church choir where her grandmother was musical director and quickly became aware of her love and affinity for singing. It was her father though who passed on his love of jazz to her. He traveled often and brought home the latest ...
Bells On Sand
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Water’s Edge; Elegia; Damunt De Tu Nomes Les Flors; My Ideal I: That Roy; Rip; Just A Dream; My Ideal 2; Peace Invocation; There Is Music Where You’re Going My Friends.
I'll See You in My Dreams
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I’ll See You in My Dreams; I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good); Don’cha Go ‘Way Mad; My
Ship; New Mark; Easy to Love; ‘Tis Autumn; More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows; Will You
Still Be Mine.
Tone Paintings
By Craig Davis
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mellow Mood; Dodo’s Bounce; Dodo’s Blues; Escape; A Ditty for Dodo; Opus No. 5;
Compadoo; Dary Departs; Tone Paintings; Battle of the Balcony Jive; Dodo’s Lament.
Late Bloomin' Jazzman
By David Benoit
Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: It Ain't Necessarily So; Don't Be Blue; When All The Light in The Sign Worked; Late Bloomin Jazzman; In Another Way; Boss Nova Days; Old Devil Moon; I Always Had A Thing For You; Before You Leave; Old Enough; Marlena's Memories; If Gershwin Had Lived.
The Optimal Evolution of Amersfoort World Jazz
by Phillip Woolever
A multitude of festivals recently returned from the pandemic wasteland as the world of live music played catch-up from over two years of interruptions, but few comebacks in the busy summer of 2022 were as uniformly strong as the full reopening of the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. During what is likely now a permanent switch from ...
Monterey Jazz Festival at 65: Let it Happen
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 23-25, 2022 For the finale of the arena portion of this year's Monterey Jazz Festival programming, Gregory Porter channeled one of the aspects which make him special in the jazz pantheon, as spirit mover with gospel roots, and with show biz instincts ...
Doug MacDonald: I'll See You in My Dreams
by Jack Bowers
There is at least one constant in guitarist Doug MacDonald's long and rewarding career: he likes to stay busy, whether hosting live gigs or inhabiting a recording studio. MacDonald's latest quartet session, I'll See You in My Dreams, is at least his twenty- ninth as leader of groups of various sizes and shapes. It is also ...
Craig Davis: Tone Paintings
by Jack Bowers
The subtitle of pianist Craig Davis' second album, Tone Paintings, is “The Music of Dodo Marmarosa." For those who may be inclined to ask, “Dodo who?" the album offers a mini-biography of Pittsburgh-born Michael (Dodo) Marmarosa, an exceptionally talented pianist whose promising early career was cut short by the crushing weight of mental and emotional problems ...
Meet Bassist Laura Simone-Martin
by Sanford Josephson
As a fifth grader at Lawrence Intermediate School in Lawrenceville, NJ, Laura Simone-Martin was planning to play the cello. But her mother, Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin, who teaches Vocal Jazz at Princeton University, showed her a video of bassist Esperanza Spalding performing at the White House. “I saw her in her Afro, playing and singing. I just ...
