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John Bailey: Time Bandits

Read "Time Bandits" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 22, 2023

After working and recording for decades with some of the jazz world's best and brightest talents, trumpeter John Bailey released his first album as leader of his own group in 2018, the second in 2020 and, in 2023, his third, Time Bandits, which shares a name but nothing more with Terry Gilliam's 1981 film fantasy.

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Time Bandits

December 2, 2023

Album: Time Bandits
By John Bailey
Label: Freedom Road Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:12

Article: Album Review

Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom (Live At The Village Vanguard)

Read "Got The Keys To The Kingdom (Live At The Village Vanguard)" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 26, 2023

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. ...

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Mulberry Street Symphony

By Benjamin Koppel

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.

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Ah-Bop

By Gene Ess

Label: SIMP Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ah-Bop; Waltz; Yuki; Array; Dark Blues; Crossing; Trance; Ending Credits

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Nora

By Franco Ambrosetti

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.

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Joachim Mencel: An Eye on Brooklyn From Poland

by Paul Rauch
December 27, 2022

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 ...

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Take Five with Gene Ess

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2022

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 ...

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Franco Ambrosetti: Nora

by Dan McClenaghan
November 14, 2022

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 ...