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Yo Miles! - Lightning (There Records, 2010)
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser are keeping the spirit of Miles Davis great electrical music circa 1969-1975 very much alive by playing music that was influenced by the original source material, but brought up to date by their original compositions and improvisations. Smith and Kaiser are added and abetted by a number of ...
John Primer - Call Me John Primer (Wolf, 2010)
Guitarist and songwriter John Primer is a solid meat and potatoes bluesman who moved north from Mississippi to Chicago and gradually moved from apprentice musician in the clubs to a leader in his own right. This album is a selection of songs from his Wolf label recordings, a nice mix of live and studio songs that ...
Yaron Herman Trio - Follow the White Rabbit (Act, 2011)
The amount of young jazz talent flowing for Israel to Europe and America in the past few years has been amazing, and you can add pianist and composer Yaron Herman's name to that growing list of superb cross-cultural composers and improvisers. On this album, he performs in a trio setting with Chris Tordini on bass and ...
Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (Tzadik, 2011)
Pitom is a very exciting young band from Israel that remains true to the “fusion" aesthetic without succumbing to any of the pretentions sometimes associated with that word. Taking progressive jazz and melding it with elements of rock, punk, prog and traditional Jewish melodies makes for a unique and exciting sound. The band consists of Yoshie ...
ASA Trio - Plays the Music of Thelonious Monk (Self-Released, 2011)
The ASA Trio is an exciting organ trio based in Iceland consisting of Andres Thor on guitar, Scott McLemore on drums and Agnar Mar Magnusson on Hammond B-3 organ. This ambitious group has played music ranging from rock 'n' roll to John Coltrane's epic suite A Love Supreme. On this album they tackle the tricky but ...
Various Artists - Essential Chicago Blues (Not Now Music, 2010)
European labels have long used their generous copyright laws to anthologize American music in a way their counterparts in the States find difficult. This compilation draws from a number of record labels including Chess and Vee-Jay, skimming some of the cream of the crop of American blues during the period 1951-1959. The electric blues boom during ...
John Coltrane - The Very Best of John Coltrane (Atlantic, 2000)
The title may be something of a misnomer, but it does make for a nice introduction for the neophyte into the sometimes overwhelming discography of saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. After a long period of apprenticeship during the 1950's, playing with icons like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, Coltrane struck out on his own in 1959 ...
Rob Brown - Unexplained Phenomena (Marge, 2011)
Recorded live during the fifteenth Vision Festival in June of 2010, this group features Rob Brown on alto saxophone, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Chris Lightcap on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. They achieve a nice, fresh and appealing free-bop feel, akin to the open ended music recorded by Blue Note Records in the mid 1960's. ...
Fred Hersch - Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2011)
According to the Palmetto Records web site, Fred Hersch was the first pianist ever invited to play solo at New York City's hallowed jazz club, The Village Vanguard. It was a fitting choice, Hersch's music encompasses the history of jazz, much of which passed through the Vanguard at one time or another. The music on this ...
John Surman - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop - April 1969 (Cuneiform, 2011)
Saxophonist and composer John Surman was at the beginning of a lengthy and successful career when this was taped with the star-studded British group which had the likes of Ronnie Scott, Kenny Wheeler and Mike Osbourne on board. The big band frames the music nicely, and Surman is featured as a soloist, playing soprano and baritone ...
