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Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2022
by Jack Bowers
As the Covid pandemic slowly recedes into America's rear-view mirror, jazz groups of all sizes and shapes have begun performing and recording again, making 2022 a rather good year over-all for fans and reviewers alike. New artists, new sounds and new approaches have combined to lend assurance that jazz remains in good hands and will continue ...
Passage
Album: Space Bugs
By Wil Swindler
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:17
Flying My Kite
Album: Thousands of Ways
By Susan Reed
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:55
Rituals
Album: Rituals
By Kyle Aho
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:54
Ben Morris: Pocket Guides
by Jack Bowers
On Pocket Guides, his debut recording as foreman, Denver-based pianist Ben Morris leads a one-dozen strong quasi-big band with rather unusual instrumentation--two horns, two woodwinds, two violins, mandolin, cello, melodica and rhythm--through eight of his engaging compositions, most of which touch on his Norwegian heritage. To his credit, Morris makes splendid use of every tool in ...
Follow the Leader
Album: Seaside
By William Flynn
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:39
George Cotsirilos Quartet: Refuge
by Jack Bowers
At a troubling and turbulent time, when many jazz albums seek to convey a “message," the only statement that Chicago-bred, San Francisco-based guitarist George Cotsirilos and his able quartet wish to make on Refuge is that swing remains king in their domain, wielding its magisterial influence over ten of Cotsirilos' sunny compositions and arrangements.
Summer 2022
by Doug Collette
Jazz Journal is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent releases of note, spotlighting titles that might otherwise go unnoticed or that deserve special attention. Manel Fortia Despertar Segell Microscopi 2022 Beginning softly and politely, as befits its title definition (trans. “fall asleep"), “Dormir" is the ...
George Cotsirilos: 'Refuge'
I loved George Cotsirilos's guitar the moment I heard it. His sound is shrewd and seasoned and he has a refined sense of history. There's ample swing, soul-jazz and a keen sense of fusion in his playing, and I can hear Grant Green's plucking, Pat Metheny's articulation, Joe Pass's chords and John Scofield's note-bending in his ...
Ymir's Bones
Album: Pocket Guides
By Ben Morris
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:21
