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Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made

Read "Taylor Made" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Trumpeter and composer Curtis Taylor's debut album, he writes in the liner notes, “was over twenty years in the making." Ever since he was a teenager, Taylor confesses, he dreamed of recording his music with a group of stellar musicians and calling it Taylor Made. And now he has. The album's cover mirrors ...

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The Chronicles of Father Robin: The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book III

Read "The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book III" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Step once more into the whimsical realm of Airoea, where The Chronicles of Father Robin, Norway's illustrious purveyor of progressive folk-rock, unveils their latest auditory tale, The Songs & Tales of Airoea -Book III. In this fantastical journey, listeners are whisked away on an adventure teeming with magic, mystery and enough excitement to make a dragon ...

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Grace Kelly with Strings: At the Movies

Read "At the Movies" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Saxophonist Grace Kelly, who some years ago graduated from the Child Prodigy class in which she was a prominent member, has entered her third decade by recording for the first time with a string-based orchestra. The theme is At the Movies, and Kelly opens with a James Bond medley and closes with five themes from Walt ...

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Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions

Read "Latin Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Even while pursuing a long and successful career in the physical sciences, Bostonian Ron Rieder never abandoned his life-long love for jazz, especially the tantalizing melodies and lively rhythms of Latin America, composing music at every opportunity before returning to writing full-time and at long last recording his debut album, Latin Jazz Sessions It ...

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Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance

Read "Exuberance" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright

Exuberance is part of a “long-form tonal conversation" between composer Christopher Zuar and animator Anne Beal. Zuar, a Long Island New Yorker, describes the work as “a journey of personal growth," which began in 2017 when he and Beal met as fellows at the MacDowell Colony in the woods of New Hampshire. He explains that the ...

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Brenda Earle Stokes: Motherhood

Read "Motherhood" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Motherhood is a salient subject if ever there was one. Yet few jazz musicians ever touch on it in their work, never mind dedicating an entire record to the topic. The real or keenly felt need to keep up with the Joneses in a musical atmosphere that typically applauds and promotes standard bearers, hyper-masculine happenings, politically ...

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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Angular Tuesday

Read "Angular Tuesday" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra seldom pauses for breath on Angular Tuesday, its third album under director Tommy Poole. The ensemble enters as though shot from a cannon on Don Menza's frenzied “Time Check," and keeps on swinging and swaying through a lively program that encompasses sunlit compositions by Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer, Thad ...

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Kicking It With Kennard

Album: Lingua Franca
By Rev Chris
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:53

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Flinta: Anger, Commitment and Love

Read "Anger, Commitment and Love" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Chilean-born pianist Antonio Flinta, based now in Italy, catches the ear with his solo piano presentations. His alone-at-the-keyboard albums include Secret Of A Kiri Tree (2022) and 2023's marvelous Peripheral Songs's--both self-produced discs that make a great argument for self-production; they can sit on a serious listening shelf with Keith Jarrett, Kenny Werner or Marc Copland. ...

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Lori Bell: Recorda Me - Remembering Joe Henderson

Read "Recorda Me - Remembering Joe Henderson" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

The exceptional tenor saxophonist and composer Joe Henderson, who passed in 2001, recorded three premium-grade tribute albums: Lush Life: The Music Of Billy Stayhorn (1992), So Near, So Far (Musings For Miles) (1993) and Double Rainbow: The Music Of Antonio Carlos Jobim (1995), all on Verve. But in the decades since Henderson left us, tributes to ...


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