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May 2023
by Pat Youngspiel
Isaiah J. Thompson The Power of the Spirit Blue Engine Records 2023 Since finishing second in 2018's Thelonious Monk competition, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson has established a particularly convincing profile as one of New York's most promising keyboard artists, while his recordings have been at home on Jazz at Lincoln Center's ...
Paradise Cove
By Lisa Hilton
Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birks' Works; Fast Time Blues; Blues Vagabond; Another Simple Sunday With You; Cha Cha Cha À La Carte; Mercurial Moments; Night Cap & a Little Chaos;Storybook Sequel; Mediterranean Dreams; What the World Needs Now is Love; Paradise Cove.
The Latin Side of Mingus
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats")
Boogie Stop Shuffle;
No Dejes Que Pase Aqui
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat;
Hora Decubitus;
Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love;
All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother;
Better Get Hit In Your Soul.
Life is Beautiful
By Lisa Hilton
Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ernie's Blues; Retro Road Trip; Nightingales and Fairy Tales; Too Hot; Unforgotten Moments, Half
Forgotten Dreams; Stepping Into Paradise: Santa Monica Samba; Seduction; Temporary Lullaby; More
Than Another Day; So This Is Love.
Pianist Lisa Hilton Debuts New Dynamic Quartet on 'Paradise Cove'
“I think we all need jazz in our lives these days,” composer, pianist, bandleader and producer Lisa K. Hilton writes in the liner notes for her 26th release, Paradise Cove (Ruby Slipper Productions). “From its inception ragtime, jazz and blues were created to boost moods or morale by America’s earliest composers, such as Scott Joplin, Ferdinand ...
Lisa Hilton: Paradise Cove
by Mike Jurkovic
At a time in our collective consciousness when it appears nothing is functioning as it once did, or is as reliable as it once was, or gives us purpose and solace as we once knew, along comes the soft sustaining magic of Lisa Hilton's gorgeous new recording, Paradise Cove, and for all of its enchanting forty-five ...
Introducing Bassist Adi Meyerson
by Sanford Josephson
As a teenager in Israel, Adi Meyerson played the electric bass and was “into fusion and rock, listening to Jaco (Pastorius) and stuff. I was about 17, and I think it was a family friend who gave me a bunch of Sonny Rollins albums. I kinda listened to them and was like, 'What's that? How do ...
43rd Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
by C. Andrew Hovan
Part 1 | Part 2 43rd Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Playhouse SqaureCleveland, Ohio June 23-25, 2022 Not quite ten years ago in 2014, the Tri-C JazzFest morphed from a spring event held largely on campus to a summer happening in downtown Cleveland's Playhouse Square. Like with most festivals, the ...
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Heatmap
by Paul Rauch
It is mostly troublesome to make blanket assertions about jazz and the musicians that facilitate the art form. Such assertions are subjective at best, yet it would not seem unreasonable to assert that Caleb Wheeler Curtis is one of the more interesting alto saxophonists to emerge since 2000. His playing has a radiant, vocal quality to ...
Seattle Jazz Fellowship Presents: Orrin Evans & the Captain Black Big Band
by Paul Rauch
The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, was created in response to the loss of viable jazz stages showcasing the vibrant resident jazz scene in Seattle. While local jazz musicians and fans alike mourned the downfall of longtime resident haunts such as the New Orleans club and Tula's Jazz Club, Marriott ...
