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Dr Lonnie Smith: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Inizia col contagioso groove di “Play It Back" il nuovo disco di Lonnie Smith, tornato a incidere con la Blue Note dopo 45 anni d'assenza. L'organista lo scrisse negli anni d'oro dell'hammond B-3, alla fine dei sessanta, ha sempre tenuto il brano in repertorio e oggi lo ripropone nel nuovo gruppo con due batteristi e Robert ...

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Dr. Lonnie Smith: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Artist repatriation seems to be something of a theme in the Don Was era of Blue Note Records. In 2013 there was the return of saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a jazz giant who delivered many of his landmark '60s albums on this storied imprint. Then, in 2015, Charles Lloyd left ECM for Blue Note, a label that ...

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Peach (2015)

By Alabaster DePlume

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Feel Good; Not Now, Jesus; Believe Me; How Could They Know; Turpentine; Inside A Heart; If You're Sure You Want To; Going Away; Snake Tie; Climbing The Wire; Pastry; Whisky Story Time; Do You Think You'll Be Relieved; Strange.

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Charm

By John Ellis

Label: Parade Light
Released: 2015
Track listing: Booker; High And Mighty; Horse Won't Trot; Charm Is Nearly Always Sinister; Old Hotel; International Tuba Day; Snake Handler; Better Angels; Barbed Wire Britches; Yearn.

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Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are the Drum

Read "We Are the Drum" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Primo lavoro per la Blue Note per il gruppo Oracle del batterista Kendrick Scott, formazione robusta e flessibile al tempo stesso, grazie alla presenza di musicisti di buon valore come Taylor Eigsti al piano, Mike Moreno alla chitarra, John Ellis alle ance e Joe Sanders al basso. Un jazz pulito quello del quintetto, ...

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Manuel Valera & Groove Square: Urban Landscape

Read "Urban Landscape" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Cuban keyboardist and composer Manuel Valera presented last with a scorching trio set Live at Firehouse 12 (Mayo Records, 2015). Acoustic and organic, Valera demonstrated is bona fides with mainstream jazz performance. Bringing drummer E.J. Strickland from that and earlier bands, Valera moves into a new project with a new band, Groove Square. He adds the ...

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John Ellis: Charm

Read "Charm" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Through the course of more than a half dozen albums under his own name, increasingly less traditional with each successive release including Dance Like there's No Tomorrow (Hyena, 2008) Puppet Mischief (Oblique Sound, 2010), saxophonist/composer John Ellis has developed and refined his own sound, particularly through his continued work with his band Double Wide. Charm further ...

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Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are The Drum

Read "We Are The Drum" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

While drummer Kendrick Scott's namesake outfit--Kendrick Scott Oracle--has been around in some form since 2006, it's a band that's really come into its own in the last few years. With the arrival of Conviction (Concord Records, 2013), Scott made a major statement on a high-visibility label; jazz listeners and critics both took note. With We Are ...

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News: Festival

Day 2 Of 8th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Re-scheduled To September 20, 1-6pm

Day 2 Of 8th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Re-scheduled To September 20, 1-6pm

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill... The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Venture Bound

Read "Venture Bound" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Dopo il suo interessante Ritual Fire, del 2013, il pianista israeliano Alon Nechushtan presenta adesso questo nuovo lavoro, in realtà registrato nell'aprile del 2012 e sostanzialmente più convenzionale, ancorché venato da elementi che gli donano una personalità propria. La formazione è un classico quartetto con sax tenore--i due sassofonisti Donny McCaslin e John ...


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