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Album

Dreams and Daggers

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: And Yet; Devil May Care; Mad About The Boy; Sam Jones' Blues; More; Never Will I Marry; Somehow I Never Could Believe; If a Girl Isn't Pretty; Red Instead; Runnin' Wild; The Best Thing; For You (Would Be Me); You're My Thrill; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Tell Me What They're Saying Can't Be True; Nothing Like You; You've Got to Give Me Some; The Worm; My Man's Gone Now; Let's Face the Music and Dance; Si J'étais Blanche; Fascination; Wild Women Don't Have the Blues; You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me.

News: Recording

Trumpeter/Composer Wayne Tucker to release new epic recording “Wake Up and See the Sun” (One Trick Dog Records)

December 1, 2017

The new release from trumpeter/composer Wayne Tucker titled Wake Up and See the Sun (One Trick Dog Records – November 3rd, 2017) is the type of recording that is larger-than-life from blank staff paper to the masterful music that makes it to the final recording. Joined by some of the finest musicians in today’s music scene ...

Article: New York Beat

Jelly Roll Morton Front and (Lincoln) Center

by Nick Catalano
September 19, 2017

With a three-night gala celebrating the music of Jelly Roll Morton, the Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestra marked its 30th season at Rose Hall. Focusing on Morton's pioneer arranging achievements with amplifications of them from Jazz at Lincoln Center performers, the evening offered a penetrating exploration of the Creole legend's multifarious compositional musings and featured a ...

Article: Album Review

Guilhem Flouzat: A Thing Called Joe

Read "A Thing Called Joe" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 7, 2017

Drummer Guilhem Flouzat, gearing up for his third recording as a leader, had meant to steer his music along the path he'd taken on his sophomore album, Portraits (Sunnyside Records, 2015)—a rotating cast of musicians laying down a batch of the leader's eloquent compositions. But a post card slipped through the mail slot suggesting a step ...

Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival 2016

by Josef Woodard
September 26, 2016

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 16-18, 2016 In its 59th annual edition, the Monterey Jazz Festival once again delivered on its promise to bring a stylistic plethora and pageantry--with nods to more abstract or daring fare--to the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Among the marquee bragging rights: an impressive new commissioned ...

Article: Live Review

Buenos Aires Jazz.15 International Festival

by Mark Holston
January 6, 2016

Buenos Aires Jazz.15 International Festival Buenos Aires, Argentina November 10-15, 2015 Imagine opening the pages of a major daily newspaper, turning to the Op-Ed section and seeing, prominently placed amidst the usual commentaries on politics and international crises, a tome to the recently deceased jazz singer and composer Mark Murphy. Sound like ...

Article: Year in Review

2015: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 4, 2016

The year 2015 was a curious blend of ups and downs, with glimmers of optimism offset by its losses. Venues opened to great fanfare, but others closed for a variety of reasons. UNESCO's International Jazz Day became firmly entrenched as the exclamation point on Jazz Appreciation Month activities in April. Daily arts journalism took a hit ...

Album

Aria

By Sullivan Fortner

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Aria; Ballade; Parade; I Mean You; You Are Special; All The Things You Are; You Know I Care; Passepied; For All We Know; Finale.

Album

A La Madrugada

By Lauren Henderson

Label: Brontosaurus Records
Released: 2015

Article: Year in Review

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2015

by Dan Bilawsky
December 10, 2015

A theme for this year's list? How about “Jazz Unbound?" I initially planned on placing my picks into different categories, as I've often done in the past. But I thought better of it. The releases that caught my ear in 2015 cover the entire spectrum of possibility--winning straight-ahead outings, audacious affairs, dynamic debuts, intimate encounters, stellar ...