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James Brandon Lewis: For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)

Read "For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 22, 2024

Not since Oded Tzur's Isabela (ECM, 2022) has a comparably exalted tenor saxophone-led album come along, not until For Mahalia, With Love. Vaultingly great jazz and deep solace for the soul, For Mahalia, With Love was released in late 2023. An annual cycle for albums of this quality is actually a sufficiency, for there is enough ...

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Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious

Read "Elegy for Thelonious" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 21, 2024

There was a sardonic saying circulating a few years ago that observed, “It's Frank Sinatra's world, we just live in it." While that was a backhanded compliment, tailoring it to the subject of this large ensemble recording, we would call it a commendation. Pianist, composer, and conductor Frank Carlberg is telling us, “It's Thelonious Monk's world, ...

Article: Play This!

James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet: Sparrow

by Chris May
February 9, 2024

Here is the opening track from James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet's For Mahalia, With Love (TAO Forms, 2023), a celebration of the music of Mahalia Jackson, remaining true to its original essence but framing it in a jazz context. Not since Oded Tzur's Isabela (ECM, 2022) has such an exalted tenor saxophone-led album come along. ...

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The Lighthouse

By Andrea Veneziani

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Lighthouse; In Perpetuum; Gravity; Bop- Be; Rainbows; Twelve Clowns; Seasons; Shunting Line.

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Keep The Dream Up

By Joe McPhee

Label: Fundacja Słuchaj!
Released: 2023
Track listing: Keep The Dream Up; You See the Lights; The Essence Vibrates Love; Reaching Ever Out; Use of Clay; Buffaloes; Cracks into Burning; Take me to the spring; They will say; Invocation.

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Bear Proof

By Todd Sickafoose

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Gold Gate; Bent Into Shape; Switched On; Flush; Magnetic North; Boom Bust Startup Ruin; Turns Luck; Prospects; Reverse Fortune.

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For Mahalia, With Love

By James Brandon Lewis

Label: Tao Forms
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Sparrow; Swing Low; Go Down Moses; Wade In The Water; Calvary; Deep River; Elijah Rock; Were You There; Precious Lord; CD2: Introduction by JBL; Prologue - Humility; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Epilogue - Resilience; Encore - Take Me To The Water.

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Lonely Man and His Fish

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Lonely Man; Pet Store; First Evening at Home; Breakfast for Two; Man and His Fish; Accident; In Hospital. CD 2: Into the Wild; Life in the Pond; Survivor; Empty House; Song for Spark; Call of Friendship; Dreaming Together.

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For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)

By James Brandon Lewis

Article: 72 Jazz Thrillers

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2017-2020

by Robert Middleton
December 18, 2023

As we start to wind down to the 72nd jazz thriller, in our penultimate collection of half a dozen jazz thrillers this week, it becomes clear that brilliant, compelling music comes in all shapes and sizes. From an understated quartet from Germany to an Aaron Parks masterpiece, all of these albums deserve a place in the ...