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Hopes & Fears

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Hopes and Fears I; Hopes and Fears II; Hopes and Fears III; Hopes and Fears IV; Hopes and Fears V. CD2: After the Darkness; Falling Night; The Moon Stood Still; Running; Piano Ballad.

Geno Thackara's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2024

by Geno Thackara
December 27, 2024

The year has unfortunately not allowed for reviewing anything near as much as I'd hoped, but the lack of coverage certainly does not mean a lack of quality--as always, there are some picks that just keep finding their way back to my speakers again and again. I'll add a quick honorable mention for Ultraviolet's Ripples and ...

Solo Piano: Emotions and Drama

by Geno Thackara
September 20, 2024

If solo might seem to suggest simple, then it would probably be best not to jump to conclusions. In the right hands, one instrument is capable of as much wide-scale drama as an orchestra. Maciej Tubis Komeda: Reflections AudioCave 2023 Any tribute worth its salt (or rather its vinyl ...

Essays on Jazz

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Here and Now; The Bright and the Dark; Longing; The Moon Stood Still; Running. CD 2: Apartment #3; On Top of the Mountain; Minotaurus; After the Darkness; Midnight Rain; Goodbye.

Maria Baptist: Essays on Jazz

by Geno Thackara
April 29, 2023

If a title such as Essays on Jazz might suggest something dry or academic (or, god forbid, pretentious), perish the thought. For one thing, Maria Baptist has spent decades as a professor of music and knows her stuff enough to live up to the name. For another, she has spent even more time living the jazz ...

Facing Duality

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Facing Duality; Minotaurus; Stillness Speaks; Sea of Blackness; Midnight Rain; Gratitude; Natural Landscapes; Cloud 9; Longing.

Geno Thackara's Best Releases of 2020

by Geno Thackara
December 26, 2020

However strange the year has gotten, the urge to create clearly hasn't lessened at all--either that or the circumstances have left us more appreciative of art where we find it. Most likely it's some of both. Whatever the case may be, 2020 has still seen no shortage of musical treats good for the soul.

Maria Baptist and Jan von Klewitz: Facing Duality

by Geno Thackara
September 17, 2020

In a way it seems out of nowhere, and in a way it was a long time coming. While Maria Baptist has ranged from solo to trio to big band and more, throughout her career at the piano, Jan von Klewitz's saxophone has been a more steady presence beside her than than most. He came on ...

Here & Now 2

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Nature of Reality; Midnight Suite #1; Midnight Suite #2; Midnight Suite #3; Midnight Suite #4; As Long as We Are Searching For; Sign of the Zodiac.