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Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing
by Pierre Giroux
At Philharmonie de Paris on September 5, 2012, pianist Geri Allen and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel delivered the mesmerizing performance preserved on this album. Geri Allen is known for her innovative perspective on the piano. Kurt Rosenwinkel has a distinctive approach to the guitar. They seamlessly blend their craft to approach a thoughtful selection of standards and ...
Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing
by Neil Duggan
Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel had a duo date as part of the Jazz à la Villette festival in Paris in 2012. They flew in on the night from separate cities to play for a packed audience. They had only played together a couple of times and this concert was the first and only time they ...
Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing
by Dave Linn
This year the jazz gods have bestowed an early Christmas present upon us. A Lovesome Thing (truncated from the Billy Strayhorn composition which opens the album), is a seven-song, fifty-three-minute album which documents a remarkable live duo performance from Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel. It will likely be found on many Top Ten lists this year. ...
Shuteen Erdenebaatar: Rising Sun
by Mike Jurkovic
It is most invigorating and affirming to stand witness to new talent. New givers of themselves despite the cold, gale-force headwinds that rise up against most, if not all, artistic endeavors. Fortunately, Rising Sun, the more than mature and compelling Motema Music debut of pianist/composer Shuteen Erdenebaatar and her award-winning quartet, is one of those statements. ...
Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet: Rising Sun
by Troy Dostert
Rarely does one find a debut recording as confident and accomplished as pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar's Rising Sun. With eight well-crafted compositions, and superb support from her young colleagues, all of whom have similarly bright futures ahead of them, Erdenebaatar successfully stakes her claim as one of the rising stars in post-bop jazz. Although she ...
Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet: Rising Sun
by Neil Duggan
When a debut album comes along with a cracking opening track, one can only hope that there are later tracks which can get near the same level. Fortunately, that proves to be the case with Rising Sun, the debut album from Mongolian pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar and her quartet. With a father who spent 40 years as ...
Charnett Moffett: The Bridge
by Howard Mandel
Solo bass records are rare, and might seem to appeal mostly to bassists and bass aficionados. But on The Bridge Charnett Moffett, the charismatic bass virtuoso with an impressive past and equally brilliant future, has proven here without benefit of a band--that his music can touch anyone who loves music, regardless of instrumentation or genre. ...
Daring Mind
By Jihye Lee
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Relentless Mind; Unshakeable Mind; Suji; I Dare You; Revived Mind; Struggle Gives You Strength; Why Is That; Dissatisfied Mind; GB.
New Love
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Swinging in the Realms; We Remember; Little Flowers; Today; Higher Dimensions; I Didn't Know; Flying
in the Air; ETQ; New Love; Spirit & Bride Song; Love for the People; Rejoice.
Charnett Moffett: New Love
by Jerome Wilson
If one thing is obvious from this CD, it is that electric bassist Charnett Moffett is a happy man these days. His playing leaps out of the speakers on these tracks with joy and high spirits. That may be because he works here in the company of his “new love," his wife, guitarist Jana Herzen. The ...
