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Linley Weir: Just One More Time

Read "Just One More Time" reviewed by James Fleming

by James Fleming
July 8, 2018

Easy on the ear does not necessarily mean easy on the consciousness. Many a sweet melody has served as a gateway drug to harder, horizon-expanding sounds. But Just One More Time, from UK-based vocalist Linley Weir, does not open any “doors of perception." Her brand of Latin-infused jazz-pop is safe as a bank vault. And, despite ...

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Lou Lanza: Scenes from an Italian: The Billy Joel Project

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by Jim Olin
July 8, 2018

Lou Lanza is a charismatic jazz artist with a unique approach to his creativity. His 2018 album Scenes from an Italian: The Billy Joel Project is not about original songs, but it is actually about offering an original spin on the tunes of one of the most beloved songwriters of all time: Billy Joel.Through ...

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Adam Berenson/Daoud Shaw: Fatidic Dreams

Read "Fatidic Dreams" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
July 4, 2018

Fatidic Dreams brings together two musician whose influences and experiences are as diverse a set of conditions as one could imagine. Philadelphia-area pianist/keyboardist/electronic composer Adam Berenson was a student of Paul Bley at the New England Conservatory of Music, and his musical inspirations run from Beethoven to Zappa. A playwright and teacher, Berenson has recorded across ...

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Juan Andrés Ospina: Tramontana

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by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
July 4, 2018

With his debut big band release, Tramontana, Colombian composer/bandleader Juan Andres Ospina has created a truly international project, featuring musicians from ten countries as disparate as Greece, Switzerland, Israel, and Columbia. Tramontana is the gale-force wind that lashes Spain's Costa Brava, clearing the skies for sweeping views of the Catalan mountains and sea. This wind inspired ...

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Stasis

July 2, 2018

Album: All In My Head
By Monty Q Pollard
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Duration: 04:19

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Martin Nevin: Tenderness is Silent

Read "Tenderness is Silent" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 29, 2018

After numerous sideman appearances with a wide swath of the jazz world, from Albert Tootie" Heath to Greg Osby and Ambrose Akinmusire, bassist Martin Nevin felt it was time to take on a more prominent role. For Tenderness is Silent, his debut disc as a leader, he's assembled a top-flight band, especially as these players are ...

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Orbital Quintet: Vol.2

by Mike Jurkovic
June 28, 2018

Seemingly influenced by any music that passes their inquisitive collective ear, Oakland's Orbital Quintet second offering, Vol. 2, opens the quixotic “Devil's Breath" with a blare that morphs to a languid simmer of guitar hijinks courtesy of DV Wright. With music that conjures an explorative jazz band from David Lynch's hallucinatory Twin Peaks, Orbital ...

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LiveHuman: ScratchBop

by AAJ Staff
June 28, 2018

La formula è quella del trio, ma con basso (Andrew Ross Kushin) e batteria (Albert Mathias) non c'è un piano, una chitarra o un sax, ma i giradischi di Dj Quest. Non inganni l'inizio sornione e ambientale, a partire da “Miles From Miles" si viaggia a pieno regime, grazie al virtuosismo dei giradischi ...