Results for "Palmetto Records"

ARTICLE: MULTIPLE REVIEWS January 11, 2020

3x3: Piano Trios: January 2020

Geir Åge Johnsen/Fredrik Sahlander/Bernt Moen 1+1=3 Losen Records 2019 What exactly does this title signify? It isn't quite clear, seeing as there are three players here and each counts as a positive one in any equation. Small mystery and all, though, it's a fun session brimming with good humor and smarts. ...

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Begin Again

By FRED HERSCH

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Begin Again; Song Without Words #2: Ballad; Havana; Out Someplace (Blues for Matthew Shepard); Pastorale; Rain Waltz; The Big Easy; Forward Motion; The Orb (for Scott).

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Six of One

By DAVID BERKMAN

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Blowing Smoke; Cynical Episode; Blue Poles; Billy; Sincerely; Three and a Half Minutes; Kickstopper; Shitamachi; Restoration; Rain Rain

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10 Years / 6 Discs

By FRED HERSCH

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Whirl You're My Everything; Snow Is Falling...;Blue Midnight; Skipping; Mandevilla; When Your Lover Has Gone; Whirl; Sad Poet; Mrs. Parker Of K.C.; Still Here. Alive At The Vanguard CD1: Havana; Tristesse; Segment; Lonely Woman/Nardis; Dream of Monk; Rising, Falling; Softly As In a Morning Sunrise; Doxy. CD2: Opener; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Jackalope; The Wind/Moon and Sand; Sartorial; From This Moment On; The Song is You/Played Twice. Floating You & The Night & The Music; Floating; West Virginia Rose (For Florette & Roslyn; Home Fries (For John Hebert); Far Away (For Shimrit); Arcata (For Esperanza); A Speech to the Sea (For Maaria); Autumn Haze (For Kevin Hays); If Ever I Would Leave You; Let's Cool One. Sunday Night At The Vanguard A Cockeyed Optimist; Serpentine; The Optimum Thing; Calligram; Blackwing Palomino; For No One; Everybody’s Song But My Own; The Peacocks; We See; Solo Encore: Valentine. Live In Europe We See; Snape Maltings; Scuttlers; Skipping; Bristol Fog; Newklypso; The Big Easy; Miyako; Black Nile; Blue Monk.

ARTICLE: YEAR IN REVIEW December 20, 2019

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2019

By JOHN KELMAN

Well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome continues to be a challenge, as it has been since mid-2014. 2019 represents, in fact, the worst year when it comes to the actual number of articles written. Still, I've been finding an increasingly satisfying niche in the arena of in-depth, detailed and extensive/exhaustive (exhausting, for you as much as I!!) articles. ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW October 5, 2019

The Fred Hersch Trio: 10 Years / 6 Discs

By MARK CORROTO

You might be surprised by pianist Fred Hersch's response to a near-death coma in 2008. Quoting from his memoir Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz (Crown Archetype Press, 2017), “a confrontation with death brings home the preciousness of life... It was the newest, brightest, shining, most surprising, most uplifting feeling I ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW August 15, 2019

Fred Hersch & the WDR Big Band: Begin Again

By JEROME WILSON

Throughout pianist Fred Hersch's long career, he has mostly worked in trios and other small units, rarely doing much with large ensembles. That makes this session of Hersch featured with Germany's WDR Big Band a special treat. They play a program of the pianist's compositions from various parts of his career, all arranged and conducted by ...

TRACK OF THE DAY May 29, 2019

Blowing Smoke

Album: Six of One
By DAVID BERKMAN
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:15

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 4, 2019

Fred Hersch & the WDR Big Band: Begin Again

By JACK BOWERS

Pianist Fred Hersch, who needs no introduction to most well-informed jazz enthusiasts, is by and large known as a leader of trios and other small groups. Begin Again displays another side of Hersch's appreciable talents: nine of his handsome compositions, astutely recast by six-time Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza and impressively performed by Germany's superb WDR ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 16, 2019

Fred Hersch Trio: Fred Hersch Trio '97 @ The Village Vanguard

By MARK SULLIVAN

Pianist Fred Hersch has produced a steady stream of recordings in the last few years, both solo and with his current trio. The trio was featured on Live In Europe (Palmetto Records, 2018) and Sunday Night At The Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2016). This album captures a special career moment for Hersch: his first appearance as leader ...