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Dana Fitzsimons: Fault Lines
by Richard J Salvucci
Fault Lines is never going to be confused with easy listening. While it has somehow acquired the label of free jazz, whatever that is, it is not cacophonous, aimless or even particularly adventurous. It is difficult in the way that Brad Mehldau is difficult, which is to say, one has to pay attention. There are distinct ...
Eyal Netzer & Oded Geizhals: Duo
by Chris May
If what looks like a chocolate cake on the sleeve suggests a birthday party or similarly exuberant affair, perhaps a house warming, think again. Duo is an altogether more intimate and introspective album. It was recorded by the Israeli tenor saxophonist Eyal Netzer and vibraphonist Oded Geizhals live in the studio and with, or so it ...
Aaron Stroessner Quartet: Gifts
by Kyle Simpler
Almost everyone has some sort of natural gift, but what we do with these gifts is what makes the difference. Guitarist and composer Aaron Stroessner is well aware of this concept, and it is the central focus of his album Gifts. This is an excellent jazz album and a fitting tribute to his parents, in recognition ...
Ada Bird Wolfe: Odd Bird
by Richard J Salvucci
There is a style of singing--midway between conversation and conventional vocal techniquewhich can only be called talk-singing, or something to that effect. It puts considerable weight on the meaning of the song, the words themselves, rather than the melody per se. Chances are, one could not hum such a tune if one wanted to. To some ...
July 2022: Love Of The Tiger
by C. Michael Bailey
Dida Pelled Love Of The Tiger Self Produced 2022 Jazz singing is seeing an uptick of artists stepping out of their traditional" roles into dramatically different vocal genres altogether. Mainstream-to-progressive Kristina Koller, who debuted in 2017 with the youthful and forward-thinking Perception (Self Produced) followed that effort with the hard-left ...
Guitarists in the Age of Isolation
by Geno Thackara
The Joel Newton Situation New Now Self Produced 2022 Since the first year of Covid had left everyone suddenly making music alone, of course it was inevitable that the trend of isolation albums would eventually give way to the out-of-isolation album as the world moved into partial circulation. For the Joel ...
Bernie Dresel: The Pugilist
by C. Michael Bailey
Jack Bowers, All About Jazz's large ensemble authority, previously considered this entire recording, The Pugilist, remarking that ..."if swing is your thing, you've come to the right place, as that is what Dresel and his elite group of sun-baked sidemen (and two women) do best and most often." One of the elements that ensures swing" is ...
Daniel Rotem: Wise One: Celebrating The Music of John Coltrane
by Jim Worsley
There was, and still is, a stunningly intricate mosaic to John Coltrane's music. His visionary art form is a gift to the world that keeps on giving. Coltrane's impressions created a legacy of beautifully conceptualized music to be absorbed and reimagined for generations to come. The music is timeless, thanks in large part, obviously, to the ...
George Crotty Trio: Chronotope
by Dan McClenaghan
Surf the web in search of the word chronotope" and encounter explanations concerning literary theory of philosophy and language to describe how time and space are represented in language..." And so on. A bit cerebral for the layman, perhaps, but Chronotope, from cellist George Crotty and his trio, seems not all that brainy. Visceral, perhaps, and ...


