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Mike Clark: Standard Deviations

Read "Standard Deviations" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Bringing new life to jazz standards is a longtime tradition in jazz, whether it be on the bandstand or in the studio. With their latest Sunnyside recording, Standard Deviations, the iconic drummer Mike Clark and Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Michael Zilber venture there once again, following Mike Drop, their 2021 Sunnyside release. The result is a ...

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Meredith d'Ambrosio: Midnight Mood

Read "Midnight Mood" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


A quattro anni di distanza da Sometime Ago la cantante bostoniana pubblica un nuovo album di raffinate interpretazioni, entro e oltre il classico songbook statunitense. Il contesto strumentale è ancor più minimale e nasce dalle sollecitazioni del chitarrista francese Frédéric Loiseau, che ha convinto la cantante e il fondatore della Sunnyside, François Zalacain. Già ...

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Gaia Wilmer, Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing with Elephants

Read "Dancing with Elephants" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Questa collaborazione tra la sassofonista e compositrice Gaia Wilmer e il batterista/bandleader Bob Moses, è stata progettata dieci anni fa, quando i due si sono incontrati al New England Conservatory, nei ruoli di allieva e docente. Il giudizio che Moses esprime in copertina sulle doti di scrittura di Gaia può apparire eccessivo (la paragona ...

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Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury

Read "Sound & Fury" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Sound & Fury è legato a doppio filo a due eventi ravvicinati nel tempo. Da una parte il periodo pandemico nel quale i futuri membri del quartetto condividono via Zoom esperienze, motivazioni, obiettivi che porteranno alla formazione ufficiale del gruppo denominato Esthesis. Dall'altra la prematura scomparsa nel marzo 2022 di Ron Miles, mentore di due componenti ...

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Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers

Read "With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Musical memories from childhood have a way of sticking. For some, it might be an encounter with Beethoven from a dusty stack of old albums packed away in the parental record collection. For others, it might be the (then, 1954) modern surge of Bill Haley and the Comets shaking, rattling and rolling into the kitchen to ...

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Frank Kimbrough: The Call

Read "The Call" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


La prematura scomparsa di Frank Kimbrough nel dicembre del 2020 ha lasciato un grande vuoto nel jazz in termini di spessore umano, valore artistico e apertura mentale. La pubblicazione di questo CD postumo è quindi l'occasione giusta per riassaporarne il talento pianistico, che ha anche illuminato la discografia di Maria Schneider e The Herbie Nichols Project ...

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Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers

Read "With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Richard Rodgers' melodic genius has long been a favoured playground for jazz musicians, but few reimagine his work with the intellectual depth and intuitive poetry of pianist Denny Zeitlin. On With A Song In My Heart, Zeitlin offers a riveting solo piano exploration of eleven Rodgers classics, combining architectural reharmonization, rhythmic invention and unflinching emotional insight. ...

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Helio Alves: Samba Of Sorts

Read "Samba Of Sorts" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


It is not uncommon for people in the United States to discuss the British Invasion of the 1960s, when groups like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Yardbirds became staples of American radio. But alongside this, another invasion was becoming part of the American music scene: bossa nova. “The Girl from Ipanema" (Verve 1964) topped ...

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Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity

Read "Synchronicity" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Bassist Jeong Lim Yang is a member of the Brooklyn jazz scene who has worked with many different musicians such as Jason Palmer, Oscar Noreiga, and Kenny Wollesen. On her third album as a leader, she uses a quartet combining motion and atmosphere with melodic beauty elements. The quartet has Mat Maneri on viola, ...

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Frank Kimbrough: The Call

Read "The Call" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Pianist Frank Kimbrough's untimely passing--on December 30, 2020--left a void in the world. Nothing can or ever will fill it, but his work and influence sound eternal, resonating and rippling across space and time. Kimbrough still has plenty to show us and teach us about the beauty inherent in the art of pianistic elocution, melodic variation, ...


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