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Article: Album Review

Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn

Read "Embracing Dawn" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Way back in the mottled history of the 1950s and '60s, record biz guys in sharkskin might kick down a DJ's door and bark: “You gotta to hear this single!" But who truly listens to and what exactly is a single these days? Add in the disturbing though elusive truth that any single can ...

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Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Read "Echoes and Other Songs" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Echoes and Other Songs is guitarist Mike Stern's first release since the loss of pianist, friend and confidante, Jim Beard in March, 2024. Beard, perhaps best known for his association with Steely Dan, appears here as pianist, keyboardist and producer. Stern is still on the long road to recovery following a fall in 2016 that broke ...

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Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Read "Echoes and Other Songs" reviewed by Doug Collette


With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works--including classics like Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966) and The Beatles (aka 'The White Album')(Apple, 1968)--it would benefit from consolidation of its best elements (as would a replacement of ...

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Christian McBride, Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play The Melody?

Read "But Who's Gonna Play The Melody?" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It is not known exactly how many duets of this nature have fallen into the lackluster bin of audio history. But rest assured that But Who's Gonna Play The Melody? is as far from that incalculable number as the moon is from the sun. Emblematic of Christian McBride's whole groove credo, everything falls into ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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Oscar Peterson: Con Alma

Read "Con Alma" reviewed by Chris May


To borrow Duke Ellington's description of Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson was born poor, died rich and never hurt anyone along the way. He also brought joy to untold numbers of people. But, truth to tell, his style was the twentieth-century equivalent of modern day AI-produced generative music. Sit Peterson down at a piano, progamme him (as ...

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Zodiac Suite

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Aries; Taurus; Gemini; Cancer; Leo; Virgo; Libra; Scorpio; Sagittarius; Capricorn; Aquarius; Pisces.

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Continuance

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Blue; Why Don't We; Hear Me Now; I Can't Make You Love Me; Zealousy; Great Is Thy Faithfulness; Aliceanna.

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Christmas Stories

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Jingle Bells; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Snow Dayz; Shoveling; Silent Night; A Christmas Hymn; The Gift; Last Christmas.

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Con Alma

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Waltz for Debby; My One and Only Love; Blues for My Landlady; Con Alma; I Could Write a Book; It Ain't Necessarily So.


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