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Berta Moreno: Little Steps

Read "Little Steps" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 20, 2017

When first seeing the title of Berta Moreno's debut record, one might be tempted to interpret it as a self-effacing gesture. Perhaps the tenor saxophonist is acknowledging her debt to the giant steps of the master of the tenor, John Coltrane himself? Upon further investigation, however, Moreno makes clear in her notes to the album that ...

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Friselland

May 19, 2017

Album: Wish You Could Stay...
By Christos Anestopoulos
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Duration: 07:05

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Temptation

May 18, 2017

Album: Dirt In The Ground
By Aaron Shragge
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Duration: 04:07

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Paisagem Sonora VII

May 16, 2017

Album: Paisagem Sonora VII
By Billy Ponzio
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 03:23

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Joris Teepe & Don Braden: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 15, 2017

In life we tend to make hard distinctions between the value of conversation and the worth of action, crystalizing such a dividing line with statements like “talk is cheap" and “actions speak louder than words." Jazz, however, has a way of relating the two. When musicians get together to play, the talk is the action. Every ...

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The Charlie Bates Big Band: Silhouettes

Read "Silhouettes" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
May 14, 2017

Born in Essex in 1994, British jazz pianist Charlie Bates was introduced to jazz in his teens and later studied for a BMus Jazz degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire. In June 2016, Bates won the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Composition prize with an arrangement of Cole Porter's “Everything I Love," adjudicated by Tim Garland. This ...

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Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Beatrice

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2017

One sure sign of spring is the arrival of the latest studio recording by the always exemplary Howard University Jazz Ensemble, a tradition that dates to 1976, one year after Fred Irby III (who remains its first and only music director) founded the Washington, DC-based ensemble. Unlike most of these enterprises, which are labeled HUJE followed ...

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Meg Morley: Through The Hours

Read "Through The Hours" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 12, 2017

Pianist Meg Morley's debut solo release, Through The Hours features five original compositions that highlight the London-based musician's talent for what fellow pianist and composer Kit Downes refers to as her “Subtle voicings and elegant turns of phrase."Morley is originally from Australia, where she studied classical music and jazz, but has been resident in ...

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Jan Sturiale: Two Roads

by Jim Olin
May 12, 2017

Guitarist Jan Sturiale's silky smooth playing is a king's feast for the ears on his latest effort, Two Roads. Backed by trumpeter Audun Waage, pianist Marko Churnchetz, bassist Joe Sanders, and drummer Ziv Ravitz, Sturiale and his fellow musicians generate heat while playing with moods from one captivating track after another. The improvisational format ...