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Scenes: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival
by Dan McClenaghan
The group Scenes has released seven excellent albums over two decades of recording together, beginning with their eponymous debut (Origin Records, 2001). All of those are studio efforts. The group's 2022 outing, Variable Clouds is a first for Scenes--their first album recorded live in front of an audience, in 2021 at the Earshot Jazz Festival.
Tilbury Hill
Album: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival
By Rick Mandyck
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:44
Trios, Duos and Solos
by Jerome Wilson
This show focuses mainly on the smallest units of jazz interaction, trios and duos, with a couple of solo performances thrown in along the way. Artists heard on the program include Matthew Shipp, the collective trio Air, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Adam Larson and Bill Frisell. There is also a special mention of bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed ...
Wheeler's Waltz
Album: The Axe Axis
By Jason Keiser
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Duration: 6:27
Lonely Blue Angel
Album: Violin Memory
By John Stowell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:47
Samuel Mösching: Ethereal Kinks
by Kyle Simpler
Two words that frequently get overused when talking about jazz are “fusion" and “eclectic." In many cases, if something is difficult to categorize, one of these terms will probably apply. Unfortunately, in many cases, these terms also fail to truly capture the essence of the music. However, for Samuel Mösching's Ethereal Kinks, both eclectic and fusion ...
John Stowell / Dave Glenn & The Hawcaptak Quartet: Violin Memory
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist John Stowell does not hesitate when it comes to taking on unconventional projects. 2021 saw him teaming with vocalist Dan Dean on Rain Painting (Origin Records)--an album of featuring an overdubbed layering of voices (Dean's) making for lush and enriching choir-like harmonics, accompanied by Stowell's various guitars. The Seattle-based guitarist's follow-up finds him ...
Rain Painting
By John Stowell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Welcome to Nice; Nanti Glo; Rain Painting; Pretty Boy Floyd; Alora Andiamo!; Springfield Sonata; Tapioca Time; Always
Sometimes; Schiffletting; The Mandy Walk.
Dan Dean: Fanfare For The Common Man
by Dan McClenaghan
Songs Without Words (Origin Classical, 2017) opened the door to Dan Dean's giant step into “going vocal"— an innovative approach to his choir-like voice-layering presentations of classical music. Rain Painting (Origin Records, 2021), teaming Dean with guitarist John Stowell, proved a perfect digression into Stowell's distinctive compositions, employing Dean's vocal harmonies, bass playing and drum programming ...
John Stowell & Dan Dean: Rain Painting
by Dan Bilawsky
Now here's a uniquely compelling set from two of the Pacific Northwest's great individualists on one of jazz's most stalwart imprints. Guitarist John Stowell and multi-hyphenate Dan Dean have each made their respective marks on many Origin dates in the past. The former's instruments have figured into more than 25 recordings there, from solo sets to ...
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