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Article: Highly Opinionated

Blue Note's Tone Poet Series

by Patrick Burnette
February 15, 2019

With CD-quality streaming a reality for those with butch internet and money to burn, and vanilla streaming the reality for almost everyone else, digital music has never seemed less collectable. Why clutter your Marie Kondo-approved home with jewel boxes when much (though heaven knows not all) of the digital catalogue is available on tap? While compact ...

Article: Profile

Sonny Buxton: Strayhorn’s Last Drummer, A Radio Master Class Mid-Day Saturdays

by Arthur R George
February 11, 2019

Sociologist, anthropologist, historian: storyteller, raconteur, entrepreneur and griot, in the guise of a deejay. Registrar, dean, professor: The jazz class of Sonny Buxton is barely concealed as entertainment within his weekly radio program every Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time on San Francisco Bay Area FM station KCSM 91.1, streaming live on kcsm.org.

Article: Album Review

Sigmar Matthíasson: Arora

by Mike Jurkovic
February 6, 2019

Now working and studying in New York, Icelandic bassist/composer Sigmar Matthiasson crossed the cold Atlantic with the groundbreaking sounds of Jaco Pastorius, Led Zeppelin, Reggie Workman, Ron Carter, and Scott LaFaro in his head and dreams. It's no wonder that Matthíasson's lyrical and eminently likable debut recording exhibits such a classic American feel. From ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Tom Kennedy: In A New York Minute

by Jim Worsley
January 28, 2019

Riding high on the low end since arriving in New York City in 1984, premier jazz and fusion bassist Tom Kennedy has shared his groove and innate musicality all over the world. He has shared the stage and recording studio with a long list of varied and talented artists. Names like Michael Brecker, Steve Gadd, Lee ...

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: MPS: 50 Years

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by Chris M. Slawecki
January 19, 2019

In 2018, MPS--Musik Produktion Schwarzwald--Records, Germany's first jazz label, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Pianist Oscar Peterson recorded the first release for MPS after his contract with Verve expired. Its catalog expanded to feature George Duke, Red Garland, Wolfgang Dauner, Horst Jankowski, George Shearing, Monty Alexander and many other pianists. Violin became the label's second most featured ...

Article: Live Review

Darrell Grant Black Art @ 25 Quartet at Birdland Theater

by Mike Jurkovic
January 18, 2019

Darrell Grant Black Art @ 25 Quartet Birdland Theater New York January 16, 2019 In the tumultuous, twenty-five year interim since his debut, Black Art took the early to mid-'90s jazz community by storm. Pianist Darrell Grant has built for himself a solid, respected, and steady, if low-profile rep; an unapologetic, ...

Article: From the Inside Out

One Day in Brazil, 50 Years in Germany

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 9, 2019

Tony Adamo Was Out Jazz Zone Mad Ropeadope 2018 Some African cultures preserved their history not by the written but by the spoken word, kept by oral cultural historians known as griots. On Was Out Jazz Zone Mad, vocalist Tony Adamo aspires to serve in this same role, ...

Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen Trio: Dirty in Detroit

Read "Dirty in Detroit" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 8, 2019

It's very comforting to know that, in a year of intense turmoil on every possible level, firebrand pianist Emmet Cohen bookended an otherwise dire 2018 with his hotly-received Masters Legacy Series Volume 2, featuring Ron Carter, and ended the year with this palpably joyful romp Dirty In Detroit. Ready to party and blow off ...

Article: Album Review

Matador: Ducon

by Hrayr Attarian
January 3, 2019

Uruguayan guitarist and composer Santiago Bogacz, who goes by the stage name Matador, has already proven his virtuosity and adventurous spirit on a number of eponymous solo EPs, each with gorgeous abstract art work as a distinguishing feature. Ducón is his second duet release after the poetic Cabala (Self Produced, 2018). This time he has teamed ...

Album

The Time Is Now

By David Hazeltine

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Time Is Now; The Odd Couple; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Cabin In The Sky; Blues For Eddie; Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight; When I'm Here With You; The Parlayer; In A Sentimental Mood; Muse Of Montgomery; Signals.