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Chick Corea: Sometime Ago
by Mike Jurkovic
Everyone listening to Sometime Ago, a previously unheard deep dive into solo Chick Corea, is hereby pardoned and excused if at first Sometime Ago is mistaken for a previously unreleased (or unremembered) Keith Jarrett concert. Jarrett had just recently ventured into solo territory at the Stadthalle in Heidelberg, Germany in June of 1972. So the vibe ...
Soojin Suh: Prism of Existence
by Mike Jurkovic
Of the many good things to be said about the raucous Prism of Existence--with Korean drummer Soojin Suh, double bassist Hoo Kim and Jaehun Kang--the least is that the kick-off, “Uncertainty I -Everlasting Peace" just may be the most rambunctious opening track as any to be heard in a good long while. Despite its mellow title, ...
Miles Davis: Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings
by Mike Jurkovic
Let us imagine for the moment that it is a day or two after the Big Spirit Beyond Wonder has separated the wheat from the chafe. The terrible, unwanted wars have ceased. Global climate change is no longer a threat. Autocracy is in the dustbin of history where it rightfully belongs. Illness has passed. The world, ...
Nduduzo Makhathini: The Myth We Choose
by Mike Jurkovic
With the spirit winds and the sounds of Ladysmith Black Mambazo at his back, pianist/composer/shaman/philosopher Nduduzo Makhathini embarks, throughout the whole of The Myth We Choose, with an inspired, ancestral magic. Chanting, speaking, conjuring. Elegant but never stand-offish, it is the joyful music of a resilient, triumphant, spiritual people. It is the music of a people ...
Kenny Barron: So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon
by Mike Jurkovic
Some guys have all the luck, and Zev Feldman is a lucky guy. Imagine criss-crossing the world on a rogue yet holy mission to bring the music all back home, and listening to, for the first time, works of art as snazzy or as regal as “Up Jumped Spring," the second of six tracks on CD1 ...
Richard Bliwas with Daniel Carter: Insomnia
by Mike Jurkovic
There is something very, very Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) about Insomnia, an ear-catching mind-bending excursion through the virtuosity, imagination, and humanness of pianist/drummer/synthesist Richard Bliwas and elder empath, saxophonist and free jazz mentor, Daniel Carter. Maybe the alluring title opener, or “Ottawa WaWa," and the most lucid “You Went Into A Mesmerizing Trance," ...
Eric Person: Extra Pressure
by Mike Jurkovic
Curating the elders while clearing his own path, there is an urgent, blue ease to alto and soprano sax man Eric Person's resonance. As a matter of fact, there is a blue urgency to all of Person's compositions: His wiry lines have stories to tell and tell them he does, with a soulful urban sovereignty. Witness “Fallout," ...
Elsa Nilsson: Liminal
by Mike Jurkovic
If, for just 52 minutes, one needs to step away from the breach, do not hesitate to push play on Liminal. A Brooklyn conceptualist by way of Sweden and Seattle, “Andetag" (Swedish for “breath") opens flautist/composer Elsa Nilsson's Liminal. But, all things considered, it could have been sequenced anywhere in the playlist given Nilsson's nod ...
Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson: Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
by Mike Jurkovic
In a true meeting of great minds, shared aesthetic, and Nonesuch label mates, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson play intently with their new Halvorson and hand-me-down Akinmusire Line 6 DL4 MkII Delay Modeler, and break the dark silence with the spectral movement of Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings. More laid back and ambient than either of the influencers' ...
Phillip Golub: Partisan Ship
by Mike Jurkovic
In a lot off ways, it is a game of catch-up listening to Brooklyn pianist/improvisor/composer Phillip Golub once he kick-starts the oddly titled Partisan Ship into high gear with “Loyalty Oath," a piece of mad musical fiction that holds attention in place with its octopi rhythms and runaway melodies rushing in all at once.
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