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Myriam Alter: Crossways

by John Ephland
There's a soulful melancholy to much of this music. Composer/pianist Myriam Alter has created yet another collection of her songs that have the potential to evoke feelings of yearning, sadness and perhaps a deep buried joy with Crossways. Akin to a previous outing on enja, the elegiac Where Is There, Crossways can be heard as a ...
Stockholm Jazz Festival 2015

by John Ephland
Stockholm Jazz Festival Stockholm, Sweden October 9-18, 2015 The sleeper at this year's Stockholm Jazz Festival, and one this reviewer initially found more a curiosity than anything else, oddly enough was downright riveting, not to mention the first evening's headliner. More in the category of being a name crossover artist ...
Various Artists: The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies

by John Ephland
It's rare that a collection of songs that stay the course with a theme from track to track can hold interest. Especially when the tunes are so spare in execution, essentially simple love songs, performed by a collection of trios who maintain distinct musical personalities. Such is the case with The Magic And The Mystery.
Various Artists: The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies

by John Ephland
It's rare that a collection of songs that stay the course with a theme from track to track can hold interest. Especially when the tunes are so spare in execution, essentially simple love songs, performed by a collection of trios who maintain distinct musical personalities. Such is the case with The Magic And The Mystery.
Mark Wingfield "Ten Shades Of Light" - Free Download - 10 Tracks - 67 Minutes of Music

Mark Wingfield's Ten Shades Of Light was compiled from ten albums (with one track represented from each album). Free Download 320 kbps MP3 and/or FLAC. Donations are welcome. Mark Wingfield's MoonJune Records' debut Proof Of Light featuring Yaron Stavi on upright bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums, was released in February 2015, receiving an impressive critical ...
Hu Vibrational: The Epic Botanical Beat Suite

by John Ephland
Uniquely atmospheric, this music evokes both the mysterious jungle as well as what it might be like to listen in space, outer space. Hu Vibrational Presents The Epic Botanical Beat Suite points to both the inner as well as outer journey. All of it exquisitely tethered by the Beat, or beats, beats that float in and ...
Moon Hooch at Shakespeare's Pub

by John Ephland
Moon Hooch Shakespeare's Pub Kalamazoo, Michigan May 29, 2015 It was an interesting combination. Two saxophones and a drummer, along with a sound system that kept everyone on their feet, if not dancing. The up-and-coming New York aspirants Moon Hooch (previously touring with They Might Be Giants, Lotus and Galactic), on ...
Warren Vache Quintet: Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter

by John Ephland
There's lots of life to this recording. Veteran trumpeter Warren Vache knows a thing or two about an old friend, mentor Benny Carter. With The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter we take a step back in time even as we venture forth into the present. A present that finds cornetist Vache's style and personage slightly ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

by John Ephland
Tyshawn Sorey's Alloy is, if nothing else, a wondrous reconfiguration of the so-called jazz piano trio. Some may quibble as to the nomenclature but drummer Sorey's four through-composed compositions are pure jazz expression, if what we mean by that term is melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisation within a larger context. That Sorey is yet ...
Spin Marvel: Infolding

by John Ephland
A cross somewhere between Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, there's a funky brilliance here that keeps me coming back for more. There are jams packed into all six pieces, a bunch of running around in and outside of meters, serious soloing without being serious (or at least, showing off). The Hassell and Eno references, of course, ...