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Road to Nowhere
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Without a Song; Silhouette; Milestones; Evening Song; Autumn in New York; Road to Nowhere; A Hidden
Walk; Second First; Estaté.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Russell Kranes/Alex Levine/Sam Weber/Jay Sawyer: Anchor Points
by Jack Bowers
No leader is given on Anchor Points, simply the names of the four musicians who comprise the group on its debut recording. This is truly a co-op enterprise by jazz artists who have been performing together for a number of years in and around the New York City area. The studio session is ...
Feint
Album: Anchor Points
By Russell Kranes, Alex Levine, Sam Weber, Jay Sawyer
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:55
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Album: Pacific
By Frank Kohl
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:45
Ted Piltzecker: Vibes on a Breath
by Jack Bowers
Even though Ted Piltzecker is a splendid vibraphonist and ushers a group of Colorado's leading jazz musicians through its paces on Vibes on a Breath, it is his sparkling arrangements that carry the day on this delightful new album. Several members of Piltzecker's septet double, and he makes the most of that versatility, writing charts that ...
Frank Kohl: Pacific
by Bill Milkowski
An old adage maintains that New York City is the Jazz capital of the world. While that may still ring true, there are fertile jazz scenes scattered all over the country where plenty of potent players have been flying under the radar. Seattle guitarist Frank Kohl, who has been quietly going about the business of making ...
Willow Weep for Me
Album: Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood
By Darden Purcell
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:37
Praise
Album: Heartbeat
By Ben Winkelman
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:24
Ben Winkelman: Heartbeat
by Neil Duggan
Awaiting the arrival of his first child while locked down in New York City during the pandemic were probably not the circumstances which pianist Ben Winkelman would ideally have chosen for writing new music. Nonetheless, taking inspiration from the anticipation of fatherhood and the feeling of isolation acted as the catalyst for the nine compositions which ...
