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Jason Parker Quartet - Five Leaves Left
The late British singer-songwriter Nick Drake is having something of a resurgence in jazz recently, kicked off by pianist Brad Mehldau's cover of “River Man" and now extending to this well executed album by trumpeter Jason Parker. Performing with Parker on this album are Josh Rawlings on piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, D'Vonne Lewis on drums ...
Matt Lavelle - Goodbye New York, Hello World (Musicnow, 2011)
Trumpeter and bass clarinetist Matt Lavelle was once a prolific and thoughtful contributor to the Brilliant Corners jazz blog, along with the man who helped bring the nearly forgotten free jazz legend Giuseppi Logan back into the limelight. He has been quiet of late, but whatever he has been doing, it's done wonders and allowed him ...
MSG - Tasty! (Clean Feed, 2011)
MSG is a collective modern jazz group consisting of Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Ronan Guilfoyle on bass and Chander Sardjoe on drums. The music they perform this album is very fresh and innovative, taking advantage of the trio setting that has inspired the likes of Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman to great improvisational flights in ...
James Carter - Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy, 2011)
Saxophonist James Carter is a master improviser on several instruments and this album places him in a concert setting with Giancarlo Guerrara and the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Akua Dixon string quintet playing two compositions by Roberto Sierra along with two extended Carter improvisations. Carter and Sierra worked together for a lengthy period of time and ...
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre (Constellation, 2011)
Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts has been involved in a lengthy genealogical exploration of her family's rich history, and in doing so has conceived of an ambitious twelve part experience of music, narrative and sound. Part one is this album, subtitled Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres which is a fascinating mix of genres, ideas and ...
Starlicker - Double Demon (Delmark, 2011)
Cornetist Rob Mazurek may live in Brazil now, but he retains deep ties to the Chicago jazz scene. Joining up with John Herndon on percussion and Jason Adasiewicz vibraphone they take us on a beautiful cosmic voyage, something akin to an updated Sun Ra small ensemble if there were such a thing. They combine their sounds ...
Travis Sullivan - New Directions (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Saxophonist, composer and educator Travis Sullivan has an appealing sound and develops strong melodic mainstream jazz here, with an intelligently mixed program cookers, mid-tempo numbers and ballads anchored by his strong playing on saxophone. He is accompanied by Mike Eckroth on piano, Marco Panascia bass, and Brian Fishleron drums. While “Jamia's Dance" is a medium tempo ...
Robert Johnson - The Centennial Collection (Sony, 2011)
It is hard to believe that it has been twenty years since the release of The Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson rocked the music world. Amazingly the recordings of a long dead acoustic bluesman who was not particularly popular or well known in his own time (see Elijah Wald) managed to score a gold record some ...
Orchestre National de Jazz - Shut up and Dance: Music of John Hollenbeck (Bee Jazz, 2010)
Daniel Yvinec, artistic director of the Orchestre National De Jazz writes in his liner notes that he had the music of percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck in his thoughts for a long time, hearing him in his mind's eye and on the pages of his journal. He was finally able to persuade Hollenbeck to write a ...
William Hooker and Thomas Chapin - Crossing Points (Nobusiness, 2011)
Multi-instrumentalist Thomas Chapin was one of my guiding lights when I started getting into jazz really heavily in the 1990's. His Knitting Factory releases are all stellar, and he could play anything from swing to bop to free, but was possibly at his best when combining all genres or dispensing with the notion of genre entirely. ...
