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Album

Run the Gauntlet

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Run the Gauntlet; Softly, As You Wake; First Steps; Little Footsteps; Heavy-footed; Beauty Beneath the Rubble; Beauty beneath the Rubble Meditation; Knotweed; Coda Queen; Dream State; Subtones.

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Truth to Power

By Wayne Escoffery

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Black Heart; The Fabricator; Truth to Power; It's Alright; Coming of Age; Dsus; Code Switching; Soliloquy (for Sidney Poitier); Lookin' for Leroy; Blues on Stratford.

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Beyond This Place

By Kenny Barron

Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Nearness of You; Scratch; Innocent; Blues On Stratford Road; Tragic Magic; Beyond This Place; Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; Sunset; We See.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Kris Davis and Younee: Keys To The Eighty-Eights

by Doug Collette
December 11, 2024

The role of pianist has been crucial to the evolution of jazz throughout its history. To that end, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans have achieved iconic status over the decades and, in more recent years, Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch have laid the groundwork for their own ascents to similarly hallowed positions, Meanwhile Diana ...

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Subtones

December 1, 2024

Album: Run the Gauntlet
By Kris Davis
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 5:03

Article: Live Review

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
November 18, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Paying Tribute: Jamie Baum and Kris Davis

by Jerome Wilson
November 16, 2024

These two albums present prominent female musicians paying tribute to other women in the arts who have inspired them. Jamie Baum draws her inspiration from the work of several poets while Kris Davis tips her cap to other jazz pianists. The Jamie Baum Septet + What Times Are These Sunnyside Records ...

Article: Album Review

Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill

Read "Red Brick Hill" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 15, 2024

Metodo catartico. Con questa tecnica, ideata da Freud e Breuer nelle prime fasi della psicoanalisi, si aiutavano i pazienti ad affrontare i postumi di un trauma. Da allora gli psicoterapeuti hanno perfezionato i loro metodi ma fuori dagli studi professionali anche l'arte s'è rivelata un mezzo per affrontare le ferite della psiche. Ad esempio con l'opportunità ...

Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: Run the Gauntlet

Read "Run the Gauntlet" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 10, 2024

For her first trio outing as a leader since 2014's Waiting For You To Grow (Clean Feed Records), daredevil pianist Kris Davis takes on her inspirations and mentors on the whirlwind Run the Gauntlet. Dedicated to the beacons who have guided and supported her searching, inventive way--Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, ...

Article: Album Review

Jerome Sabbagh: Heart

by Chris May
August 16, 2024

AAJ occasionally publishes reviews which call out the barbarism of digital-only albums (Heart is not one of these, please hang on in there). Item: the review of Brazilian saxophonist and flautist Vinicius Mendes' Macunaismo Tardio Vol. 1&2 (Notes On A Journey, 2024). The two albums collected on that vinyl double-LP, blinders both, were originally released separately ...