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Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Troy Dostert
Another year of first-rate creative jazz is in the books, along with another impossible set of choices in assembling a top-10 list. These are some of the standouts, in a year in which trios and quartets were especially prominent, taking advantage of the unparalleled opportunities for close collaboration that smaller ensembles provide. My favorites are listed ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos / Of Many Turns
by Troy Dostert
Perpetually churning rhythms, telepathic detours, unexpected juxtapositions: these are the stock-in-trade of Steve Coleman's Five Elements. And once again the intrepid alto saxophonist's inimitable approach surfaces on PolyTropos / Of Many Turns, a generous, two-disc helping of music that manages to be both intricately complex and fundamentally accessible at the same time. With two live dates ...
Sabino de Bari: Ashanti
by Troy Dostert
After joining with vocalist Diana Torti for their 2023 duo release, It's All We Have, guitarist Sabino de Bari is back with an ensemble of his own on Ashanti, an enchanting album of tunes centered on the themes of rootlessness and wandering. Its poignancy is found not only in the subject matter but also in the ...
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)
by Troy Dostert
There has always been room in jazz for those creative minds who can bridge the gap between the heart of tradition and the leading edge of change. In the world of saxophonists, Thomas Chapin, Arthur Blythe, Julius Hemphill or David Murray easily come to mind. Multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis has similarly explored this terrain for years, ...
Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry
by Troy Dostert
Pianist Michael McNeill has pursued a number of projects since his debut release, Passageways, in 2013, each of which has defined his distinctive niche as a musician informed by both avant-garde and conventional jazz. On Barcode Poetry, it is the former impulse that prevails, as McNeill and his esteemed colleagues--Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar, Dave ...
Maya Belsitzman and Uriel Herman: Pauses in Shades
by Troy Dostert
Harnessing an amalgam of idioms and techniques on his instrument, Israeli pianist Uriel Herman has been carving a capacious niche in the jazz world since his debut release, Awake, in 2014 (self-produced). But it was his 2023 album, Different Eyes (Ubuntu Music), that started generating some serious buzz. With a wide-ranging aesthetic encompassing everything from Chopin ...
Matt Booth: Sun Prints
by Troy Dostert
Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a ...
Rob Parton's Ensemble 9+: Relentless
by Troy Dostert
After many years in the Windy City, most notably as the leader of the JazzTech Big Band, trumpeter Rob Parton wanted a change of scenery, which brought him to the University of North Texas, where he joined the faculty in 2019. And of course, that meant he now had the opportunity to work with lots of ...
Kevin Miller and Dan Blake: At First Light
by Troy Dostert
A serendipitous pairing that first took shape in the early 2020s, guitarist Kevin Miller began meeting regularly with saxophonist Dan Blake for freely improvised sessions that resulted in the tandem developing a highly simpatico vocabulary. At First Light reflects the workings of the duo's distinctive dialogic approach through five spontaneously crafted musical discourses. Many ...
Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles
by Troy Dostert
Among 2024's contenders for the most tireless and ambitious pianists in creative music, one has to put Matt Mitchell near the top of the list. When he is not working as a sideman alongside other pathbreaking musicians like Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Darius Jones or Kim Cass, he is busy crafting his own idiosyncratic compositions and ...
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