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Article: Year in Review

Neri Pollastri's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Neri Pollastri
January 6, 2025

As the year has come to an end, it is interesting to look back, reflect on the music we have enjoyed the most, and share it with those who may have missed it. This year, I have noticed, with surprise and appreciation, an higher than usual number of remarkable albums. Many are listed below. I will ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
December 31, 2024

Arrivati a fine anno è sempre interessante guardarsi indietro, ripensare alla musica ascoltata con maggior piacere e condividerla con coloro ai quali può essere sfuggita. Quest'anno osservo con qualche sorpresa che i dischi meritevoli sono tanti (e forse non sono neppure tutti qui), ma devo dire che farei fatica a eliminarne qualcuno. Se sia segno dell'elevata ...

Album

NatJim

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Morning City; Afternoon City; City of Dusk; City of Night; Quiet City; Noisy City; Calm City; Bright City; Bonus.

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Aloft

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Migration; Wintering; Traveling Bird; Lifting; On The Flyway; Waiting For Dawn.

Album

Unwritten

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Thirteen Years; We Waited; Evolving.

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Dog Days Of Summer

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Not Together; Haru Wo Matsu; Metropolitan Expressway; A Parcel for You; Circle Dance; Low; Dog Days of Summer.

Article: Album Review

Satoko Fujii: Dog Days Of Summer

Read "Dog Days Of Summer" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 29, 2024

With its aggressively pushy opener, full of attitude, the reunion of Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii's Quartet, last heard on Bacchus (MZCO, 2007), seems to be asking: “well, did you miss us?" Certainly there is no missing the foursome on Dog Days Of Summer, completed by regular partner Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, along with the snarling electric ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Satoko Fujii: Renaissance Figure Extraordinaire

by Doug Collette
December 16, 2024

Satoko Fujii is that rare artist whose technical and intuitive talents are as readily apparent in collaboration with others as when she is working on her own. To that end, she seems bent on deeply exploring the seemingly innumerable combinations of musicians and instruments, in as wide a variety of settings available to her on both ...

Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2024

These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

Article: Year in Review

Lawrence Peryer's Jazz & Beyond for 2024

by Lawrence Peryer
December 7, 2024

I very much enjoy the moment we are in for improvisatory and creative music. So many traditions are coming into contact and interacting with each other: jazz cats, indigenous practitioners, electronic music experimenters, modern composers and many others. The breakdown and blurring of genre divides and dogma is something I revel in. “Collision Music," to quote ...