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Francesco Patti, Andrea Domenici, Giuseppe Cucchiara, Andrea Niccolai: A Sound in Common
by Neil Duggan
Album titles can sometimes be mystifying, enigmatic, strange, or in this case, perfectly apt. A Sound In Common links four Italian musicians who share a passion for composing and playing their own brand of swinging contemporary jazz, springing from roots firmly planted in grounded post-bop language. This album, featuring mainly original tunes, is their ...
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
by Eric Gudas
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards403 pagesISBN: #9781524749071Alfred A. Knopf 2023 In the early 1970s, Henry Threadgill--composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, inventor of the hubkaphone, Vietnam veteran, and all-around Proteus (in Ovid, the god “who always changes") of Black music and ...
Lilian Terry: Forever Sisters Of The Soul - Renaissance Jazzwomen
by Kerilie McDowall
I was warmly accepted by a giant such as Duke Ellington during his last seven years. He chose to be my friend, demanding my annual presence during his concert tours in Europe as his “good luck charm," and as his sounding board for all the phrases he would dictate to me, to be used later in ...
Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: I'm An Old Cowhand; Solitude; Come, Gone; Wagon Wheels; There is No Greater Love; Way Out West;
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star; Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody; How High the Moon; You; I've
Found A New Baby; Along Together; In the Chapel in the Moonlight; The Song is You; I'm An Old
Cowhand (alternate); Come, Gone (alternate); Way Out West (alternate); The Song is You; You (alternate);
I've Found a New Baby (alternate).
Brilliant Corners
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Brilliant Corners; Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are; Pannonica; I Surrender Dear; Bemsha Swing.
Wynton Kelly, Jason Moran, Christian McBride, Geri Allen
by David Brown
This week we will we celebrate some birthdays including the legendary pianist Wynton Kelly known for his lively, blues-based playing and as one of the finest accompanists in jazz. I'll spin some tunes I heard at Jason Moran's Village Vanguard Thanksgiving weekend run; we'll play some music to get ready for Christian McBride's New Jawn here ...
Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer
by David A. Orthmann
Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer Gary Carner 240 ISBN: #9781438494357 Excelsior Editions2023 Baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams was essential to this reviewer's formative years as a jazz enthusiast. During the 1970s, in Storrs, Connecticut, New York City, northern New Jersey, and Kansas City, Missouri, I had many opportunities to witness ...
Tommy Halferty, Philippe Aerts, Kevin Brady At Scott's Jazz Club
by Ian Patterson
Tommy Halferty, Philippe Aerts, Kevin Brady Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland December 1, 2023 The gentleman had arrived early to secure a table right in front of the stage, a fresh pint of Guinness settling nicely before him. He had seen guitarist Tommy Halferty before. The first time was in ...
Andrew Rathbun: The Speed Of Time
by Dan McClenaghan
Not one to avoid concepts and ambitious outings, Andrew Rathbun's to-date masterpiece, The Atwood Suites (Origin Records, 2018), explored the poetry of his countrywoman, writer Margaret Atwood. In 2023, he tackles time. Time is a funny thing. Its perceived speed is malleable. It tends toward an increasing velocity as one moves into middle age ...
