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Bill Evans Trio: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)

Read "Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 8, 2025

On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, a barrier many believed human beings could never break. Today, any elite miler can run that time, which makes Bannister's accomplishment harder for modern sports fans to fully appreciate. Something similar happens when listening to pianist Bill Evans' two Riverside studio sessions, Portrait in Jazz ...

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WDR Big Band featuring John Goldsby and Bob Mintzer: Big Band Bass

Read "Big Band Bass" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2025

What better way to bid farewell to a long, fruitful relationship than with a mutual gift? That is the decision John Goldsby and the extraordinary WDR Big Band made after 30 years of intense collaboration. Extended partnerships are perhaps not too frequent in today's jazz landscape, even in the more conducive orchestral realm: well-known are the ...

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Legendary Bass Played By Newark Native Scott Lafaro Loaned To New Jersey Performing Arts Center

October 28, 2025

Legendary Bass Played by Newark Native Scott LaFaro Loaned to New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) for 2025 TD James Moody Jazz Festival and 2026 Milt Hinton Institute for Studio Bass Ben Williams (Nov 9), Max Gerl (Nov 13), Christian McBride (Nov 22), and Gregory Jones (Nov 23) will all play the famous instrument at the ...

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Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Read "The Dreamworld of Paul Motian" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 1, 2025

Borrowing a sentiment from the title of the 1959 Riverside Records album Everybody Digs Bill Evans, it is safe to say that pianist Anat Fort digs Paul Motian. Her The Dreamworld of Paul Motian says so. We can attribute a big part of Motian's career success to pianist Bill Evans (1929 -1980). Portrait In ...

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Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

Read "Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 6, 2025

While tributes to pianist Bill Evans have certainly not been in short supply over the years, he has unsurprisingly been given far more attention by pianists than from other instrumentalists. Efforts from guitarists have been particularly rare. There are some noteworthy exceptions: John McLaughlin took a stab at it in 1993 with Time Remembered (Verve) alongside ...

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The Song Poetry of Torhild Ostad and Kazzrie Jaxen

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 11, 2025

While many singers interpret songs, few elevate them into song poetry--a fusion of lyricism and phrasing that transcends genre. This rare quality emerges when voice, words, and musical interplay coalesce into something greater than the sum of their parts. It is a phenomenon found in the recent albums by Norwegian vocalist Torhild Ostad and pianist-singer Kazzrie ...

Article: Liner Notes

Hindsight: Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron

by Brian Morton
February 17, 2025

Sometimes we're reduced to throwing down old bones and seeing what messages they deliver back. Maybe noticed at the time, but the recording of Hindsight, by the trio of maestro Enrico Pieranunzi, master bassist Marc Johnson and time-lord Joey Baron took place almost exactly sixty years after one of the most famous jazz piano sessions of ...

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Califano, Tino, Marzano: What's New?

Read "What's New?" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
February 13, 2025

Un trio di giovani musicisti--due ventisettenni e un trentasettenne--e un programma di storici brani per omaggiare la tradizione in modo personale: questo in estrema sintesi What's New?, il CD del trio formato dall'alto sassofonista Federico Califano con il contrabbassista Francesco Tino e il batterista Alessandro Marzano e pubblicato dalla AUT Records. Il disco prende ...

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