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Carl Bartlett, Jr.: Hopeful

Read "Hopeful" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Hope springs eternal from the horn of Carl Bartlett, Jr. The young alto saxophonist's debut album puts his positive spirit out front on a set of music that explores the quiet, the lively and everything in between. Bartlett, a Queens, New York native still living in the jazz capital of the universe, didn't instantly take to ...

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Simon Latarche: Cornish Preludes Book II

Read "Cornish Preludes Book II" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Simon Latarche's sophomore outing is the sequel to Cornish Preludes (Pentreath Music, 2010) and features the same fine ensemble that shaped the success of that debut. Cornish Preludes Book II continues the UK-based composer/pianist's scholastic pursuit of Claude Debussy's approach to impressionist composition. Combining his academic interest with the influences of Cornwall's colorful history and natural ...

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Doctor Magnum: Live at Red Square

Read "Live at Red Square" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Pianist Robert Glasper, in the All About Jazz segment “One LP," talked about Slum Village's Fantastic, vol. 2 (Good Vibe, 1999), produced by J Dilla: “J Dilla is probably the only producer I know that changed the way musicians actually play their instruments." Exhibit A is Glasper's own piano playing with both his acoustic and electric ...

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For You

Album: A Portrait Of LadyMay
By Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 6:44

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Laila Salins: Elevator Into The Sky

Read "Elevator Into The Sky" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

On Smash, pianist/composer Patricia Barber wrote songs quite reminiscent of the late American poet Anne Sexton's (1928-1974) poetry: abstract and almost, but not quite, inaccessible. On Elevator Into The Sky, Latvian-American singer/composer Laila Salins adapts poems by Sexton for her lyric book, backing them with a competent and far-reaching band. This project is as ambitious as ...

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The Dave Lalama Big Band: The Hofstra Project

Read "The Hofstra Project" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

As an academic, pianist Dave Lalama's resume includes being a founding faculty member of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music Jazz Program, as well as a current professor at Hofstra University where hundreds of students, colleagues and musicians have all been a part of his distinguished professional life. As a musician, his background includes performances with ...

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Michael McNeill Trio: Passageways

Read "Passageways" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

The rhythm trio is a well-established and ubiquitous format in jazz. Its fluidity and flexibility allow for a wide range of expression from traditional to advanced with the majority of recordings being solidly in the mainstream. Pianist Michael McNeill's exhilarating and innovative debut recording Passageways pushes the harmonic boundaries of the ensemble into unique and intriguing ...

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Deixa

Album: Sonho
By Emy Tseng
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 3:29

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Tine Bruhn: Nearness

Read "Nearness" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

A curve ball can be the cause of consternation but it can also go the other way, ending up as a serendipitous game changer. Such was the case with the initial meeting between vocalist Tine Bruhn and pianist Johnny O'Neal. Both figures first encountered one another in the summer of 2011, when Bruhn's steady pianist backed ...

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Al Thompson,Jr.: City Mainstream

Read "City Mainstream" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Known for favoring bebop as well as jazz standards from the Great American Song Book, Bridgeport, Connecticut-based jazz pianist/composer Al Thompson Jr. delivers his first album as leader presenting a set of nine original straight ahead compositions recorded with a combination of groups from a quintet to a light ensemble--all nicely packaged on City Mainstream. Don't ...


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