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Matt Wilson Quartet: Hug!

by Dan McClenaghan
Drummer Matt Wilson's quartet opens Hug! with Gene Ammons' The One Before This." Saxophonist Ammons often used the tune as a showcase for tenor battles with fellow sax man Sonny Stitt. Wilson and company--featuring cornetist Kirk Knuffke, sax man Jeff Lederer and bassist Chris Lightcap--lay the sound down like a party. And this quartet parties hard. ...
3x3: Piano Trios: January 2020

by Geno Thackara
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. ...
Six of One

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
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.
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).
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blowing Smoke

Album: Six of One
By David Berkman
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:15
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 ...