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Crossing Paths
By Renee Rosnes
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Frevo; Pra Dizer Adeus (featuring Edu Lobo); Trilhos Urbanos; Canta, Canta Mais (featuring Maucha Adnet); Casa Forte (featuring Edu Lobo); Essa Mulher (featuring Joyce Moreno); Amor Até O Fim; Estórias da Floresta; Caminhos Cruzados (featuring Maucha Adnet).
Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Katchie Cartwright
2024 was another great year for jazz, and here are a dozen more reasons to think so... Hermeto Pascoal Pra você, Ilza Rocinante Records “I saw heaven on earth doing this work." --Hermeto Pascoal Rhiannon Giddens American Railroad: A Musical Journey of ...
Frevo
Album: Crossing Paths
By Renee Rosnes
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:43
Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths
by Katchie Cartwright
In the course of a career that began in the 1980s and continues to flourish, Renee Rosnes has developed an extraordinary sound, both as a composer and as a pianist, one that is readily recognizable whatever the context. With Crossing Paths, she taps into longstanding affinities and affection for Brazilian music, illuminating elements and flavors that ...
George Coleman at the 25th anniversary of Smoke Jazz Club
by Paul Reynolds
George Coleman Smoke Jazz Club 25th Anniversary Concert New York, NY April 12, 2024 Jazz thrives in places that rarely endure for very long. Sure, there are the longtime jazz temples--the Village Vanguard in New York, Ronnie Scott's in London, Preservation Hall in New Orleans--but most premier clubs are lucky ...
Steve Turre: Colors for the Masters
by C. Andrew Hovan
When it comes to the contemporary trombone artists, there are two schools of exploration. Steve Turre is an advocate of the more melodic school of which elder champions include Curtis Fuller and J.J. Johnson. The more ebullient and bop-inflected side of things has its greatest proponent in Conrad Herwig. No one method should be considered the ...
Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in 1997 when Introducing Jim Rotondi announced that a major new trumpeter star was on the ascent, few could have predicted how important and prolific Rotondi would become to the mainstream landscape. A foremost stylist in the lineage of Freddie Hubbard and Wood Shaw, Rotondi quickly proved he had absorbed the legacy, only to jettison ...
Renee Rosnes: Written in the Rocks
by C. Andrew Hovan
Always a major talent who has transcended the hokum that usually accompanies the precept of women jazz musicians, pianist Renee Rosnes offers a mature and individualistic touch that has been recorded on far too few occasions over the years. In fact, prior to this fabulous session, Rosnes' last U.S. release was a 2010 duo set with ...
Heads of State: Search for Peace
by Maurizio Zerbo
Un'ennesima proposta accattivante ci viene dalla label indipendente Smoke Records, grazie a questo splendido gruppo di “all stars." L'interplay è perfetto, forte di una più che quarantennale collaborazione che a vario titolo accomuna i quattro musicisti. Tutti ultrassantenni, Gary Bartz e compagni affrontano questa cavalcata tra gli standard con disinvolta naturalezza, che consente di infondere nell'ascoltatore ...
Eddie Henderson: Collective Portrait
by Maurizio Zerbo
Empatia, raffinato gusto armonico, souplesse, lirismo. Sono i fili principali di un percorso musicale davvero avvincente, che si impone come uno dei progetti più convincenti di contemporaneo modern mainstream. Ne è protagonista un quintetto di livello assoluto, dove giganteggia il fraseggio fluido ed elegante del leader. IL suo nuovo CD costituisce l'occasione giusta per tessere le ...
