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Steve Holtje

Da Qi

By What You May Call It

Label: MechaBenzaiten Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Phil's Instant Dystopia; Reverie; Itch My Scratch; Da Qi.

CultureCatch.com's Best Of 2012 List

January 5, 2013

CultureCatch.com's annual Best New Jazz Albums list is out. Sitting at #1 is David S. Ware & Planetary Unknown's album on AUM Fidelity, Live at Jazz Festival Saalfelden 2011. Artist of the Year honors go to Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman, who released six albums on Leo Records in 2012. Top historical recording is the Miles Davis ...

My Life an Album a Year

April 4, 2011

By Steve Holtje My 50th birthday was March 29, which has me feeling retrospective. I could just make lists of favorite albums, but that would mostly cluster around my formative years (lots of '70s and '80s stuff). Going a year at a time produced a more nuanced and less obvious set of albums. Thanks for indulging ...

Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau: Metheny Mehldau

by Steve Holtje
October 8, 2006

A pianist and a guitarist, both known for beautiful ballad playing, get together for an album of mostly duos. Snooze city, right? That's what I thought after the first track. Boy, was I wrong. This thing is intense! Not that the opening number, written by Mehldau (everything's original; he wrote three, Metheny seven) is sleepytime; I'd ...