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Combobulate
Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Henry’s Boogaloo; Combobulate; Focus Pocus; Cuyahoga Valley; Strange Affair; Bills In The Bell; Bob The Bob; Malagasy; The Parting Glass.
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022
by Ludovico Granvassu
The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...
Mikey Likes It!
by Patrick Burnette
Some people accuse critics of being subjective, but when discussing music there's always one Platonic fact you can point to above and beyond the shifting tides of fashion and trend: does Mikey like it? In this case, yes, yes he does. He likes all four of this episode's albums. Pat, on the other hand? Still a ...
John Patitucci, Michael Blake, Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Marco Pacassoni & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this set we focus on Hammond jazz, brass-heavy projects, North-European bands and a series of albums that have John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter and Terri Lyne Carrington as common threads.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jupiter “Stratos" The Wild East (Moserobie) 0:16 ...
Nadje Noordhuis: Full Circle
by Chris May
In terms of an honest assessment of an artist's qualities, press releases are rarely worth the paper they are no longer printed on. An exception is the release accompanying Australian-born, New York-based trumpeter and composer Nadje Noordhuis' exquisitely lyrical Full Circle. It is an exception partly because it is written by Elan Mehler, the artistic director ...
Dave Liebman: Trust And Honesty
by Chris May
Dave Liebman's Trust And Honesty is the third release in Newvelle Records' limited edition audiophile-vinyl autumn 2022 Renewal Collection. It follows Elan Mehler's There Is A Dance and Michael Blake's Combobulate, both previously reviewed on these pages. Liebman's album is an unassuming little gem. It takes a master musician to take a selection ...
Michael Blake: Combobulate
by Chris May
The instrumentation alone promises something out of the ordinary. Saxophone, two tubas, trumpet, trombone, drums. Then there are the musicians, luminaries of downtown New York jazz. Michael Blake, Bob Stewart, Marcus Rojas, Steven Bernstein, Clark Gayton, Allan Mednard. And within seconds of the needle descending on track one, side one, Combobulate starts delivering on the promise. ...
Kresten Osgood, Ronnie Foster, Melissa Stylianou, Ghost Horse & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
An Hammond B-3onanza! Ronnie Foster is back, with a reissue of Two-Headed Freap and the first new album in almost four decades, Reboot, and so is the Gentle Giant of Danish jazz drummer-turned-Hammond player Kresten Osgood. A compare and contrast between Gerald Clayton and Melissa Stylianou, Gene Bertoncini and Ike Sturm, as well the new gems ...
Jun Miyake, Magic Malik, David Murray, Potsa Lotsa Xl & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this episode Guadelupe meets Nigeria; Japan & Italy meet Brazil; Germany meets South Korea; and many more transnational encounters from the Global Jazz Village.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Magic Malik “Pòpòt ka bouyi" Ka-Frobeat (Onze Heures Onze) 0:16 Host talks 5:22 Michael Blake ...
Kimbrough
Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Call; C Minor Waltz; Kudzu; Elegy for P.M.; Falling Waltz; Forsythia; Quickening; Whirl; Wings;
Hope; Clara's Room; For Duke (Instrumental); Lullabluebye; For Jimmy G.; November; Adrian's Way;
Sadness; Helix; The Breaks; 20 Bars; Ancestors; Kids Stuff; Meantime; Capricorn Lady; Waltz for Lee;
727; Beginning; Southern Lights; Regeneration; A & J; Eventualities; Moonflower; Just Suppose;
Reluctance (Quartet); Areas (Trumpet, Piano, Bass); The Spins; Sanibel Island; Fubu; Cascade Rising;
Over; Blue Smoke; Air; Affirmation; Quiet as it's Kept; TMI; Time Will Tell; Areas (Piano, Bass, Drums);
Noumena; Sloppy Seconds; Reluctance (Solo Piano); Grass Valley; Questions the Answer; Lucent;
No Radio; For Carla; Ode; St. Mark's Place; Ca'lina; Hymn; Svengali; For Duke (Vocals).
