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Cobblestones

February 20, 2023

Album: Convertible
By Kingsley Durant
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:52

Article: Album Review

Lumor's vocalist, Mirjam Hassig, describes the trio as a “Swiss jazz and ambient band," which goes some way, but not all the way, to summing up the group and the music to be heard on its debut album, Flock of Birds. Yes, it is a jazz trio, the line-up completed by leader and composer Manuel Sidler ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Costa: Beams

by Craig Arthur
February 19, 2023

UK-born pianist Dan Costa plays and composes in the impressionistic tradition of Bill Evans, acoustic Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea or Marcin Wasilewski. It is a style that lends itself well to the alchemy of turning light into music, music into light. And his subject matter of choice on Beams, like that of an impressionist painter, is ...

Article: Liner Notes

Greg Lewis' Organ Monk: American Standard

by Howard Mandel
February 18, 2023

Thelonious Monk was an American original, a unique figure of his time and place. So is Greg Lewis, organist at the helm of Organ Monk, which on American Standard expands upon its mission of interpreting Monk's own compositions, just as Monk did himself. American Standard, Organ Monk's third album, takes up classic songs from ...

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Losing Eurydice (feat. Antonio Sánchez)

February 18, 2023

Album: Held Together
By Aberdeen
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:38

Article: Liner Notes

Reggie Nicholson: No Preservatives Added

by Howard Mandel
February 17, 2023

From cosmic gong signaling it's “Time to Reset" to bluesy combo asking that we “Say It Ain't So," Reggie Nicholson's Percussion Concept on No Preservatives Added makes music of real life and sonic imagination. Beats, breathes, cycles, syncopations and synchronizations--dances, stances, gestures, textures—rhythmic physicality and melodic extrapolation--expressive, engaging improvisations of a masterful team, that proceed by ...

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Get Up

February 22, 2023

Album: Choices
By William Carn
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:01

Article: Album Review

Alvaro Rojas: Music for 22

Read "Music for 22" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 14, 2023

Whether it was an unintentional or deliberate act, Alvaro Rojas' Music for 22 creates a perfect movie soundtrack. It is just that the film has yet to be made. His approach is to blend a string quartet both with his electric and resonator guitars, varying the scenarios and emotions as if he were scoring a film. ...

Article: Album Review

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Voices: A Musical Heritage

Read "Voices: A Musical Heritage" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 8, 2023

No matter where in the world one looks, there is musical history worth exploring and celebrating--which is what the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra sets out to affirm on its sixth album, Voices: A Musical Heritage. Winnipeg is the capital of Canada's Manitoba Province, and Voices pays tribute to the area's rich and expansive musical fabric via a ...