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Greg Tardy: Wherever He Wants Me

by George Colligan
October 16, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] This past August, I did a concert with The Greg Tardy Quintet at Small's Jazz Club in New York City. The performance was significant in that it was the first time (except for one other gig earlier in the month) that ...

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Mara Rosenbloom, Darius Jones, Brian Drye: Brooklyn Artist Snapshot

by Seton Hawkins
August 14, 2013

To even the casual observer, Brooklyn has incubated an extraordinary new generation of talented jazz artists. While the Borough is certainly renowned for a vibrant jazz community, and indeed has been since the mid-twentieth century, this latest cohort of artists is nevertheless worthy of a particular spotlight, not only for being a gathering of tremendous performers ...

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Mara Rosenbloom Quartet: Songs from the Ground

Read "Songs from the Ground" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 11, 2013

Pianist Mara Rosenbloom frames her second album on personal recollections encapsulating childhood, family matters, and challenging situations. Therefore, the idealization for this outing is not merely steeped within an austere band approach. Taken from this perspective, her musicality embeds or perhaps synchronizes a form of melodic goodness with a traumatic periphery. Rosenbloom's brand ...

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Sean Conly / Alex Harding / Darius Jones / Chad Taylor: Grass Roots

Read "Grass Roots" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 10, 2013

From the start of the track “Hotttness" the organized chaos is at first unsettling, yet gives way to a tight hook in the exceptional debut Grass Roots by a newly formed collective who sound like they've been playing together for decades. The two lead voices consist of alto saxophonist wunderkind Darius Jones ( Man'ish Boy (A ...

Album

Think Shadow

By Sean Conly

Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Timeslip; Scylla and Charybdis; Baghdad Bargain; Rabid in Boneyard Blue; Think Shadow; Midnight in the Desert Nothing but Camel Rhythms to Keep Me Awake; Tumble; swarm; Gart; Slow Mink; Even Owls Dream; Poe's Pendulum; Shaftway; Sargasso; Respectable Tawdry.

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Sean Conly / Michael Attias: Think Shadow

Read "Think Shadow" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 4, 2012

This is an intimate meeting between old friends. Bassist Sean Conlyand Michäel Attias who collaborated before on Conly's Re: Action (Clean Feed, 2012) and on Attias' recent Spun Tree (Clean Feed, 2012). But this recording features both musicians who work now as the Think Shadow duo. Here, they improvise on the spot, creating melody, rhythm, and ...

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Lola Danza: Life of Luxury

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2012

Singer/composer Lola Danza has a pan-cultural and artistic vision expanding well beyond the traditional singer's role as performer and interpreter, though these facets do exist large in her art. The singer began a personal trend on Vision Quest (Evolver, 2005) employing a rhythm section of only two bassists. This format, with an occasional splash added by ...

Article: Album Review

Yoni Kretzmer 2Bass Quartet: Weight

Read "Weight" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 10, 2012

Israeli saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer is one of the promising musicians that emerged from Israel's small and familiar scene. He has a unique musical vision, is well-versed in the history of the forward-thinking genres of jazz and is fearless and ambitious. So it is no surprise that, after relocating to New York, he formed a working group ...

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Lola Danza: The Island

Read "The Island" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 18, 2012

Vocalist Lola Danza has always been an original thinker, but that doesn't get you very far in a field crowded with people fitting that description. What makes Danza stand out is her strength of vision and steadfast commitment to following her muse, no matter how non-commercial it may be. With Janya (Evolver, 2011), Danza and her ...

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Lola Danza: The Island

Read "The Island" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 2, 2012

Singer/composer Lola Danza is not a multicultural artistic presence, she is a pan-cultural artistic presence. This is fully exploited on her ensemble recording, Janya (Evolver, 2011). Her singing and songwriting hover in the neighborhood of jazz because terms like “new age" and “world music" don't seem to quite cover it. Live Free (Evolver, 2009) was exactly ...