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Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Harlem Suite

Read "The Harlem Suite" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
July 31, 2023

Tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart has lived in Paris, Senegal, and Switzerland as well as his native island of Guadeloupe, but his 18 years in Harlem were crucial to his life and career. It was there that he found himself at an inflection point in the dynamic music scene of the late '90s, playing with such transformative ...

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Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Continuing

Read "Continuing" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
July 2, 2023

Tyshawn Sorey listeners who were weaned on his Pi Recordings, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (2016), Verisimilitude (2017), and Pillars (2018), were probably unprepared for the swinging trio outing Mesmerism (Pi, 2022). With the multi-instrumentalist Sorey on drums, Aaron Diehl on piano and Matt Brewer on bass, the group delivered one of the best piano trio ...

Article: Six Picks

January 2023

by Pat Youngspiel
January 27, 2023

Masaki Hayashi Group Blur The Border S/N Alliance 2023 In contrast to its sister-label Nagalu Records, Shinya Fukumori's S/N alliance is devoted to music and musicians outside of Japan, bringing idioms from classical music and improvised streams under one roof, to be shared across borders. And pianist Masaki Hayashi's ...

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Criss Cross Records: The Healing Power Of Authenticity

by Chris May
January 19, 2023

When the founder of the Netherlands-based Criss Cross Jazz label, Gerry Teekens, passed away in 2019, there was an odds-on chance that Criss Cross would leave town with him. That is often the fate, in such circumstances, of organisations led by a singular visionary and defined by their personal aesthetic. The loss of the label would ...

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Only Now

By Igor Butman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Egyptian Nights; Verdict; You’ve Got E-mail; Golden Sun Ray; Only Now; Blues for Wynton; Falling Grace; Baby I Love You; Blues for Wynton (quintet).

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Stand Art

By Tigran Hamasyan

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: De-Dah; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; All The Things You Are; Big Foot; When A Woman Loves A Man; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; I Should Care; Invasion During An Operetta; Laura.

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Mesmerism

By Tyshawn Sorey

Label: Yeros7 Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Enchantment; Detour Ahead; Autumn Leaves; From Time To Time; Two Over One; Rem Blues.

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Elements for Peace

By Evgeny Pobozhiy

Label: Butman Music Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Subliminal, Bodhi, Song for Daughter, Enjoy the Silence, Infant Eyes, Elements, Alina, If, Aether

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Standards From Film

By Mike Moreno

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2022
Track listing: Beautiful Love; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; There Will Never Be Another You; Stella By Starliight; Laura; I Fall In Love Too Easily; On Green Dolphin Street; My Foolish Heart; Invitation; Days Of Wine And Roses.

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Mike Moreno: Standards From Film

Read "Standards From Film" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
December 13, 2022

At last. An enjoyable alternative to the ghastly albums of “jazzed up" hymns and Christmas carols which spew forth every holiday season. There is nothing overtly Christmassy about guitarist Mike Moreno's Standards From Film, but it is appropriate that the album, recorded in New York in December 2021, was released in the UK in early December ...