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To My Beloved Ones
Label: Mons Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tango; Die Tocher Des Tyrannen; For Me Is Just Now And Anytime; Kap'tn Blaubar; To My
Beloved Ones.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2022
by Jack Bowers
As the Covid pandemic slowly recedes into America's rear-view mirror, jazz groups of all sizes and shapes have begun performing and recording again, making 2022 a rather good year over-all for fans and reviewers alike. New artists, new sounds and new approaches have combined to lend assurance that jazz remains in good hands and will continue ...
Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra: Conspiracy
by Jack Bowers
While listening to Conspiracy, German-born composer-arranger Tobias Hoffmann's second album, the thought arose that “Stan Kenton would have loved this." Like Kenton, Hoffmann is an explorer who approaches music from a cerebral point of view but never overlooks the need to swing and to keep an audience engaged by varying the tone, tempo and color of ...
Conspiracy
Album: Conspiracy
By Tobias M. Hoffmann
Label: Mons Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:15
Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn: To My Beloved Ones
by Dan McClenaghan
Multiple reedman, composer and arranger Steffen Schorn served a six-year tenure with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra. The collaboration resulted in a masterful trilogy of albums, Three Pictures (2018) and Dedications (2021), both on Mons Records, and now To My Beloved Ones. This is luxurious big band music, serious sounds. The traditions mix with modernity; moments of ...
Dedications
Label: Mons Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Mad Code; Monsieur PF; So Eine...; Martha; Til Charlotte; Walzer Part I; Walzer Part II; Walzer Part III.
I Am
Label: Mons Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Song For Alf; I Love These Days; So Far; Adam's Battle; On The Road Again; Moonsand; Coming
Home; Time is
Altfrid M. Sicking: I Am
by Pierre Giroux
There is this construct that says that jazz is a global enterprise. A delicious example comes from the German-based Mons label and I Am. The foundation of this post-bop album is a quartet anchored by Altfrid M.Sicking on vibes/marimba, Sebastian Altekamp on piano, Ingo Senst on bass and Christian Schoenfeldt on drums. On several of the ...
Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn: Dedications
by Dan McClenaghan
The Zurich Jazz Orchestra (ZJO), under the leadership of multiple reedist Steffen Schorn, is a colorful listening experience on their 2021 release Dedications. The arrangements weave woodwind pastels over backdrops of the darker hues of the trombones and bursts of bright primaries from the trumpets. Schorn took the leadership role of the ZJO in ...
