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Ari Ambrose and Stephen Riley - Tenor Treats Two (Steeplechase)
Resuming right where its companion volume left off, this disc delivers another stimulating hour-plus colloquy between its co-leaders. Tenorist Ari Ambrose gets top billing on the tray card, but it's very much an affair of equals, onset to finish. Stephen Riley is the more overtly mercurial and idiosyncratic of the two frontline partners. His lushly-conceived tone ...
The Ullmann/Swell 4 - News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt)
Finding chemistry in a frontline partner, let alone a band writ-large, is no easy task. German reedist/flautist Gebhard Ullmann has an uncanny knack for doing just that. His rewarding association with trombonist Steve Swell dates back over half a decade to a fateful quartet session for CIMP. Bassist Hilliard Greene and drummer Barry Altschul were the ...
Ari Ambrose and Stephen Riley - Tenor Treats 2 (Steeplechase)
Resuming right where its companion volume left off, this disc delivers another stimulating hour-plus colloquy between its co-leaders. Tenorist Ari Ambrose gets top billing on the tray card, but it's very much an affair of equals, onset to finish. Stephen Riley is the more overtly mercurial and idiosyncratic of the two frontline partners. His lushly-conceived tone ...
Geri Allen - Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
As with Mary Lou Williams before her, Geri Allen is a pianist unencumbered by extrinsic stylistic boundaries. Williams' influential music ran a gamut from pre-swing to free, pulling in blues, gospel and folk facets to form a compositional language resolutely of her cast. Allen occupies a comparable space in her philosophy toward the ivories. This latest ...
David Binney - Aliso (Criss Cross)
Over the past decade, altoist David Binney has accrued accolades as one of the most in-demand saxophonists operating out of New York City. His dance card is often enviably full with projects of various stripes and persuasions under his own leadership and those of his many peers. Criss Cross is a regular conduit for some of ...
Jeremiah Cymerman - "Under a Blue Grey Sky" (Porter)
Clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman caps his licorice stick in favor of composer's quill on his latest disc. The album-length titular piece comprises six acts and an interlude for string quartet. Cymerman's hand is also active in the electronic “treatments" he adds to the strings players' interactions. His picks for participants prove inspired choices with Jessica Pavone and ...
Thomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult - Lonely House (Covers) (Cimp)
Covers seem natural grist for the creative music mill that is cellist Thomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult. The cleverly-coined chamber ensemble evinces a flexibility of form and function that invites investigation of a myriad of compositional sources. Ulrich and his bandmates, guitarist Rolf Sturm and bassist Michael Bisio, are voracious musical consumers. Combine that collective appetite with ...
Odean Pope Quartet - Fresh Breeze (Cimp)
Odean Pope records are old reliables. Such shorthand is not meant to argue anything safe or rote about the entries in his discography. Rather it's meant as an assertion of principled dependability across the board. Put on a Pope album and you're guaranteed some gold-standard tenor playing at a minimum. Fellow Philadelphian Bobby Zankel has a ...
Champian Fulton - The Breeze and I (Gut String)
As is the current lot of jazz writ large, singers in the idiom rate comparatively low on the public awareness and consumption charts. There are arguable exceptions like Diana Krall and if the definition is particularly inclusive, Norah Jones, but most of the time vocalists are in the same boat as their instrumental brethren. Even that ...
Brandon Wright - Boiling Point (Posi-Tone)
Over four decades after his premature passing, Coltrane is still a near-inescapable force for jazz saxophonists who opt for tradition-minded playing. Twenty-something Brandon Wright certainly sounds under the master's spell. From the bright, soaring unisions of “Free Man" the opening number on his new release, the tracks of Trane are a primary method of melodic travel. ...
