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Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom (Live At The Village Vanguard)
by Chris May
There is a lot of heavy ordnance going off during this album. Indeed, the incoming only lets up once, and then briefly, during a performance of Billy Strayhorn's “Blood Count" at the halfway point. For the rest of the sixty-one minutes playing time, the watchword is eruptive. But no PPE is required. The barrage is benign. ...
Ah-Bop
By Gene Ess
Label: SIMP Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ah-Bop; Waltz; Yuki; Array; Dark Blues; Crossing; Trance; Ending Credits
Nora
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nora's Theme; Morning Song of a Spring Flower; All Blues; Falling in Love; Autumn Leaves; Sweet
Journey; It Happens Quietly; After the Rain.
Mulberry Street Symphony
Label: Cowbell Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Stranded in the Strange City; Minding the Baby; Tommy The Shoeshine Boy; Blind Man; The Last Mulberry; Bandits' Roost; The New House; Encore: Puerto Rican Rumble.
Joachim Mencel: An Eye on Brooklyn From Poland
by Paul Rauch
It is rare when an album is released by a veteran artist that so clearly defines his or her musical identity as a jazz musician, much less speaks musically to the artist's hopes, dreams and passionate pursuits of a lifetime. Such is the case with Polish pianist/composer Joachim Mencel's Brooklyn Eye (Origin, 2022). To Mencel, the ...
Take Five with Gene Ess
by AAJ Staff
Meet Gene Ess Award-winning guitarist, Gene Ess, draws upon a diverse background to form his unique style. Studying classical piano, Gene's early years were filled with the sounds of Beethoven and Chopin. Originally from Tokyo, Japan and growing up on a U.S. Air Force Base on Okinawa, Gene was simultaneously receiving a mix of influences: he ...
Franco Ambrosetti: Nora
by Dan McClenaghan
Franco Ambrosetti's album is called simply Nora. Short and sweet, four letters, two syllables. But it could easily have been called “Franco Ambrosetti with Strings," as the Swiss flugelhornist & trumpeter follows the orchestral path of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and his groundbreaking Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, 1950), trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker with Strings ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2022
by Mike Chamberlain
Various venues Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 5-9, 2022 All hail the return of live music! After a three-year break imposed by Covid-19, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) was back this year with a scaled-down but user-friendly slate of 350 concerts, about 2/3 ...
The Montreal Jazz Festival Is Back In Full Swing
by Leo Sidran
After a two-year slowdown due to COVID, the Montreal International Jazz Festival came back this year. I had been there a couple times, in and out, as a musician. I went this year to cover the festival's full return for The Third Story. When you're a musician at a festival like MJF, the job ...
