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Tim Hagans: Beautiful Lily
by John Kelman
While he's been by no means inactive, it's been six years since trumpeter Tim Hagans released his last album, Re-Animation: Live in Montreal, which found him exploring his own version of electronica/fusion. Beautiful Lily returns him to a mainstream acoustic setting, but with his stellar quartet--featuring pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Bill Stewart--it's ...
Marc Copland: Some Love Songs
by John Kelman
Were almost any other artist to put out an album called Some Love Songs, we might expect an album filled with saccharine sentimentality and syrupy romance. When pianist Marc Copland does it, though, chances are its going to be a lot more like the reality of love--complex and multifaceted, as bittersweet as it is tender, and ...
Hubert Nuss: Feed the Birds
by John Kelman
Already in his forties and an in-demand player in his native Germany with the NDR and WDR Radio Big Bands, among others, pianist Hubert Nuss is something of an unknown entity elsewhere, certainly to North American audiences. And that's a shame, because based on the strength of Feed the Birds, his first release for the relatively ...
Bill Carrothers: I Love Paris
by John Kelman
One great thing about jazz is that an artist is more likely to be measured by his or her career arc, rather than the success or failure of a single release. It also means that, when an artist releases a career-defining record, subsequent releases are less likely to measured against it. Instead, they are seen within ...
