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Choose Joy

by John Chacona
March 2, 2023

What should music sound like as the world emerges from the musical Ice Age of the pandemic years? An elegiac tone is an inevitable and perhaps necessary acknowledgment of the desolation of those years. Equally valid is an expression of joy and gratitude for the transformative power of music to heal and uplift. In their own ...

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Rolling Stones And Grateful Dead: Stoking The Eternal Flame

by Doug Collette
February 26, 2023

Notwithstanding the almost clockwork regularity of archival releases (with and without bonus material), upon quick reflection, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead would not appear to have much in common. But some concentrated contemplation reveals how many traits these bands actually share and that's even apart from their remarkable longevity. With sixty-plus years and counting ...

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A Tasting Menu

by John Chacona
February 6, 2023

It says a lot for the current state of the music that some of the most interesting music hitting the market is being made by lesser-known artists who might never get a look from major labels. Here are four that have their own particular—and very different—charms. All are worth a spin for the sheer joy of ...

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Three Gems from Michael Robinson and Eliot Zigmund: Earth and Sky, Runs to Sea and What Magic

by Hrayr Attarian
February 3, 2023

Keyboardist and electronics innovator Michael Robinson is a prolific and imaginative musician. In 2018 he started re-exploring the acoustic piano and, during the solitary times of the COVID-19 pandemic, his solo piano recordings increased dramatically. In 2022 he met up with drummer Eliot Zigmund and over three days the duo reinterpreted and deconstructed several standards. Zigmund ...

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Another Timbre passes its two hundredth release…

by John Eyles
January 25, 2023

As mentioned in a review of Jurg Frey's 2022 album Borderland Melodies, that was the two-hundredth release on Another Timbre, the Sheffield-based label set up by Simon Reynell in 2007. The label had released its hundredth album in 2016, so the second hundred were released over six years compared to the first one's nine years. In ...

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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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More Jazz From 2022

by Jerome Wilson
January 16, 2023

The year 2022 produced a bumper crop of worthwhile jazz recordings, so many it was impossible to give all of them their due in a timely fashion. Here are belated appreciations of six titles that deserve praise. Doug Wamble Blues In The Present Tense Halcyonic Records 2022 ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-1964) and (1965-1966)

by Mike Jurkovic
January 5, 2023

Let's entertain the undisputed truth that Ahmad Jamal, all ninety-two years of him, is quite possibly the coolest cat on a warming planet and these companion double sets Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-1964), and Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1965-1966) take on a rather folklorish, must-have status. With ...

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Three contrasting Insub releases

by John Eyles
November 21, 2022

Insub dates back to 2006 when it began in Geneva, Switzerland, as a netlabel called Insubordinations and a non-profit association, initially called Association Insubordinations, both soon shortened to Insub, for obvious reasons. The Insub Meta Orchestra was founded in 2010 by the duo of percussionist Cyril Bondi and electronicist Laurent Peter, aka 'd'incise.' Ever since, the ...

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Solo Flights: Glenn Dickson and Joe Fielder

by Jerome Wilson
November 15, 2022

These are solo recordings by two musicians who can create dense forests of sound with only one instrument. one with the help of electronics and the other just using his lips, breath and tongue. Glenn Dickson Wider Than The Sky Self-Produced 2022 Glenn Dickson is a klezmer clarinetist who ...