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Chris Gestrin: Stillpoint

Read "Stillpoint" reviewed by AAJ Staff


There's a sense of unquiet about Chris Gestrin's Songlines debut, Stillpoint. As for the quiet part, the pianist and his quintet do spend quite a bit of time perusing the open spaces of tranquility and distance. This is not a loud record. Gestrin's solo piece “This Past Tuesday" has a strongly meditative quality, sounding like a ...

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Patrick Zimmerli: The Book of Hours

Read "The Book of Hours" reviewed by Elliott Simon


A crisp brass alarm announces the dawning of a new day in composer Patrick Zimmerli's The Book of Hours, a musical cycle that proceeds through the seven medieval daily periods of worship. In place of spoken prayer, interspersed allusions to Coltrane's A Love Supreme serve as sacred moments. Soprano saxophonist Zimmerli, guitarist Ben Monder, and the ...

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Wayne Shorter: Alegria

Read "Alegria" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Wayne Shorter raised high expectations after last year's critically acclaimed Footprints Live . His new release, Alegria, continues to reveal the creativity and vitality in one of today's true jazz icons. Footprints was the first time Shorter had recorded live with his own acoustic group. The group, featuring the younger jazz talents of drummer Brian Blade, ...

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Benoit Delbecq and Fran: Dice Thrown

Read "Dice Thrown" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Whenever jazz musicians make a duet record, its success or failure ultimately depends on how well they can join together. Interactive conversation and a shared sense of discovery can make for a brilliant record, while unbridled extroversion or poor attention spans can render it dismal. It's all in the fragile bridge between the parts. ...

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Hilmar Jensson: Tyft

Read "Tyft" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Once the line that demarcates musical genres has been erased, there ain’t no returning to the farm. Paris (or a virtual Paris) has been seen, and one can never be the same. So says Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson. His trio with drummer Jim Black and saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo shares in the belief that ...

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Safa: Alight

Read "Alight" reviewed by AAJ Staff


In an obvious sense, jazz is firmly rooted in tradition. For the last century, artists have passed this music down from generation to generation through aural (and other) forms of communication. And, quite appropriately, that mode of inheritance also fits the definition of folk music quite well. Likewise, jazz musicians have long drawn upon ...

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Four In One

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hypochristmutreefuzz; Reef; Kneebus; Die Berge Schuetzen Die Heimat; Four In One; Monk's Mood; Criss Cross; Blues After Piet; Kwela P'Kwana; We're Going Out For Italian; Poor Wheel.

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Your Basic Live

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2002


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