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Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

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Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

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Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

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Rites & Revelations

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: Offering; Step Up To The Altar; Praying Mantis; Lighter & Brighter; Life; You Again; St James Infirmary; Bide Your Time; What Are You Running Towards?; Back To Life.

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Letters From Afar

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Yellow Greens; 2. Wishbone; 3. Eo; 4. Invisible Beasts; 5. Bright White Light; 6. Banshees; 7. 41; 8. Rio (Live At Bimhuis)

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Alex Hitchcock: Letters From Afar

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Alex Hitchcock made his name as an emerging talent in London when he decided to move to New York City  to, as he put it, “engage with the music being made here, because as a white British musician playing Black American music, engaging with the context in which that music is made is important." Letters from Afar ...

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Precipice

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Jellyfish; Don't Be Sad (It's Too Late); Vespa Crabro; Linus With The Sick Burn; And Then There Were Three; Katabatic; Black Lacquer; Kintsugi; Solenopsis; Alpenglow.

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City Swamp

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

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Cadair Idris

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Euwn i mi; Idris; Unsettled; Rhyd; Ionawr; Cynefin; If I Fall; Zorny; Upon Leaving The Dream.

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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

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In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records

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Article: Album Review

Ill Considered: Precipice

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The British pianist John Tilbury believes that some free-improv musicians play for too long without pausing for literal or metaphorical breath and, to make matters worse, do not listen hard enough to their bandmates. How right he is. Tilbury has not named names, but many AAJers could surely suggest some. Tilbury recommends that improvising musicians should ...


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