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RSD Releases, My Fair Lady, Steph Richards

by David Brown
This week we check out some Record Store Day archival release from Brother Jack McDuff, Cannonball Adderley, Yusef Lateef and Art Tatum. New music from Afro-Cuban Pianist Zaccai Curtis, pianist Noah Haidu, Trumpeter Steph Richards and Philly's own Kenny Barron. We will then the revisit My Fair Lady which opened on Broadway 68 years ago this ...
Kenny Barron Residency at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
Kenny Barron Residency SFJAZZ Center San Francisco February 1-4, 2024 Popularly dubbed an elder statesman" of jazz, pianist Kenny Barron, needs no introduction to aficionados of contemporary American music. At 80, he is still actively playing, composing, mentoring, teaching, and releasing music (including two duets with Dave Holland). Barron joined ...
Sphere

By Bobo Stenson
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: You Shall Plant a Tree; Unquestioned Answer--Charles Ives in Memoriam; Spring; Kingdom of
Coldness; Communium Psalm; The Red Flower; Ky and Beautiful Madame Ky; Valsette, Op. 40/1;
You
Shall Plant a Tree.
Mike Jurkovic's Best Albums Of 2023

by Mike Jurkovic
Led by Veronica Swift and Lakecia Benjamin, 2023 spotlighted some brilliantly moving new music in a year of previously unheard masterpieces. If music soothes the savage beast, this was a great year to be listening. John ColtraneEvenings At The Village Gate Impulse! Records
Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere

by Mike Jurkovic
Bobo Stenson first rose to recognition as a sideman and in-house pianist in the late '60s with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, vibraphonist Gary Burton, and saxophonist Charles Lloyd, among many others. But it was in 1971, alongside drummer Jon Christensen, that he established his subtle, humorous shadings and folkish, earthy style with Underwear (ECM). Yet Stenson's intimate ...
Sphere

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Shapeshifter; Jord; Origins; Sirius; Boekloev; Unfold; Krakow; Celeste.
Kenny Barron and Friends Celebrate Monk at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
Kenny Barron and Friends Celebrate Monk Herbst Theater SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA October 10, 2019 Seventy-six-year-old pianist Kenny Barron needs no introduction to avid jazz fans, having been a fixture on the scene for decades. He is known for his own work as well as his participation as co-founder of ...
Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Sphere

by Roger Farbey
Sphere is Alexi Tuomarila's follow-up to Kingdom (Edition, 2017) and Seven Hills (Edition, 2017). But the Finnish pianist has also collaborated with many of jazz's leading lights including Kenny Wheeler, Joey Baron, Jim Black, Bill Evans and Peter Erskine. Tuomarila also appeared on Dark Eyes by the Tomasz Stanko Quintet (ECM, 2010). Sphere 's ...
McCoy Tyner with Geri Allen and Kenny Barron at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
McCoy Tyner with Geri Allen and Kenny Barron SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA January 18, 2015 Three of the jazz world's best known pianists recently came together at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California for a memorable triptych of styles. Heading the bill was piano patriarch McCoy Tyner. Now 76, Tyner initially made ...