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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012

by Dan McClenaghan
December 21, 2012

Scores of excellent CDs were released in 2012. These are some of the finest. Click on the CD titles for more in depth reviews. Hal Galper Airegin Revisited Origin Records Pianist Hal Galper has been delving deeply into his rubato explorations of the standards, along with his ...

Song of the Day

Kiwi

December 19, 2012

Album: Suitcase
By Jeff Johnson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 7:05

Song of the Day

One Step Closer

December 18, 2012

Album: Airegin Revisited
By Hal Galper
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 7:29

Article: Album Review

Hal Galper Trio: Airegin Revisited

Read "Airegin Revisited" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2012

Hal Galper's Airegin Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the “elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Johnson: Suitcase

Read "Suitcase" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2012

Bassist Jeff Johnson traveled the United States from the 1970s until 1990. He followed the work during his time of transience, and played an array of styles, from R&B to country, from blues to pop, and jazz. Then he put his suitcase down in Seattle and evolved into something of a house bassist for Origin Records, ...

Article: Album Review

Pharez Whitted: For The People

Read "For The People" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 25, 2012

Indianapolis-born trumpeter Pharez Whitted has kept a low profile in the new millennium. He's busied himself with teaching, attending to his duties as Director of Jazz Studies at Chicago State University, performing live and appearing as a sideman on a scant number of under-the-radar albums, but none of this has helped to boost his reputation beyond ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Hamar: Hymn

Read "Hymn" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2012

Origin Arts bassist Jon Hamar effects an intimate trio with alto saxophonist Todd DelGiudice and pianist Geoffrey Keezer on Hymn. Heard most recently, prior to this date, on Richard Cole's Inner Mission (Origin Records, 2007), Hamar's Hymn is heavy on introspective yet muscular originals, as Hamar also chooses some sturdy standards upon which to improvise.

Article: Album Review

Jessica Williams: Songs of Earth

Read "Songs of Earth" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 9, 2012

Jessica Williams, with her last four CDs on Origin Records, is like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. Earlier in her career, Williams--who once held the piano chair in drummer Philly Joe Jones band--wrapped her artistry in the Great American Song on Some Ballads Some Blues (Red and Blue, 1999), along with stellar tributes to ...