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We Limit Not The Truth of God
By Ezra Weiss
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Fanfare for a Newborn; Dear O. and J.; Blues and the Alternative Fact; You Just
Started Kindergarten; Jose's Drawing; I Don't Mean to Be a Downer; Obergefell;
What Now; We Limit Not the Truth of God; Please Know That I Love You;
Footprints.
Lolly Allen: Coming Home
by Jack Bowers
There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when women in jazzapart from singers and the occasional pianistwere seen by many observers as unsolicited interlopers whose impact in what was essentially a male bastion could be no more than minimal at best. Needless to say that is no longer the case, as women's voices ...
Charlie Porter: Immigration Nation
by Paul Rauch
Jazz has always carried with it a social narrative with historical ebbs and flows reliant on the polarizing issues of its time. With Immigrant Nation (OA2, 2019), Portland based trumpeter Charlie Porter embraces the forever narrative of American immigration, the historical force of humanity that has formed and enriched this country from its beginnings. The linear ...
Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not The Truth of God
by Jerome Wilson
In 2015 Ezra Weiss began to compose a suite that he intended would be a cautiously optimistic message to his young children about the world they were living in and the challenges and promise they would face as they grew up. By the time this music was completed and recorded in December 2018, its mood and ...
Ben Markley Quartet: Slow Play
by Jack Bowers
The jacket cover on this splendid new studio recording from OA2 Records reads Ben Markley Quartet Featuring Joel Frahm," and for good reason: the New York City-based saxophonist lends considerable improvisational weight to Slow Play, which would be a far different animal without him. That's not to say that pianist Markley, bassist Marty Kenney and drummer ...
Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not The Truth of God
by Jack Bowers
Composer / arranger Ezra Weiss's debut big-band recording, We Limit Not the Truth of God, is actually a suite written for his two young children to help them understand and embrace the often confusing and chaotic world in which we live. It is thus entirely appropriate that the album was recorded (with an audience) in a ...
Carrie Wicks: Reverie
by Paul Rauch
Seattle-based vocalist Carrie Wicks is back with her fourth effort on the Origin label, and while there are many similarities stylistically with her previous efforts, Reverie more draws from the original compositions of Wicks and her partners Ken Nottingham and Nick Allison. One of the commonalities between the recordings is Wicks' insight into putting ...
Ben Markley: Slow Play
by Paul Rauch
Pianist/composer Ben Markley has shown deft touch in hand picking projects that express the broad range of his relationship with the music. Since 2017 he has produced a rousing big band tribute to Cedar Walton, and a slick quartet record with saxophonist Greg Osby. Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton (OA2, 2017) featured Markley's insightful arrangements ...
Obergefell
Album: We Limit Not The Truth of God
By Ezra Weiss
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 09:44
Erik Skov: Liminality
by Jack Bowers
Liminality is defined as occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." Guitarist Erik Skov had a good idea: infuse his debut album with a certain amount of liminality (ambivalence) in the form of eight long-form compositions designed to lend his able sextet weighty meat on which to chew.


