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Frank Kimbrough: Quartet

by Dan Bilawsky
October 1, 2014

The majority of pianist Frank Kimbrough's albums have focused on the piano trio format, but he's certainly willing to try other things; he made that clear by recording in a duo with vibraphonist Joe Locke on more than one occasion, putting together a bass-less quartet for Noumena (Soul Note, 2000), and going it alone on Air ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

by Dan Bilawsky
October 1, 2014

Manhattan Stories is a trip back in time, a journey to a long gone and long-missed era. It's a window into the great Charles Lloyd's art at a period of transition. The shows presented on this beautifully packaged two-disc set--one recorded at the infamous Slugs' Saloon in the summer of 1965, the other recorded at Judson ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace

Read "Search for Peace" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2014

Steve Heckman says he was inspired to play the tenor saxophone after hearing John Coltrane, especially Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Luckily, Heckman did not follow his mentor completely off the deep end but remained instead true to his bop-bred roots while developing a singular voice of his own on the tenor. On Search for Peace (a ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Horace Tapscott: The Tapscott Sessions, Volumes 1-8

by Frank Rubolino
October 1, 2014

Horace Tapscott began his musical career as a trombonist, and during the early part of the 1950s played in the Gerald Wilson big band. It wasn't until his US Army tour of duty in the late 1950s that he studied piano. He subsequently gave up the trombone due to an automobile accident while on tour with ...

News: Recording

Kiki Ebsen Displays Brains, Courage And A Whole Lot Of Heart Singing Jazz To Honor Her Famous Father

October 1, 2014

“Scarecrow Sessions,” the critically-lauded homage to Buddy Ebsen, is garnering radio-play led by the single, “If I Only Had A Brain.” Calabasas, California (1 October 2014): Reluctant no more, Kiki Ebsen clicked the heels of her ruby red shoes three times and set off on the yellow brick road armed with the Great American songbook, Broadway ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Meckler Orchestra: When The Clouds Look Like This

Read "When The Clouds Look Like This" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 30, 2014

The image that adorns the cover of When The Clouds Look Like This--three weathered valves rising from the mist, a finger button inexplicably missing from the middle valve--is something of a mystery. Is it a riddle? A metaphor of some sort? Or is it simply an image that appealed to these musicians? Only those involved with ...

Article: Album Review

Philip Corner: Satie Slowly

Read "Satie Slowly" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 30, 2014

Pianist Philip Corner slows down Erik Satie and shows where Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich came from. Satie Slowly is exactly that: the piano music of Satie vastly slowed down compared to most contemporary performances and recordings. The lengthy subtitle to the release says it all: “Avoid All Sacrilegious Exaltation." The large insert, assembled ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Ray Charles: Genius Love Company – 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
September 30, 2014

"The way these days just rip along, too fast to last, too vast, too strong..." --Jackson Browne The final recording of Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company, enjoys its tenth anniversary. It is striking to consider that it has been over ten years since the death of Ray Charles, one of the most imposing ...

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

by Karl Ackermann
September 30, 2014

From an early age composer/drummer/educator Tyshawn Sorey has found creative outlets in not just music but in painting and literature as well. Never one to compartmentalize his own imagination, he has enthusiastically explored blues, gospel, classical and music for dance so it seems quite natural that his current music defies categories. Whether listening or writing, he ...

Article: Album Review

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Brooklyn Babylon

Read "Brooklyn Babylon" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini
September 30, 2014

Che Brooklyn sia il cuore musicale della New York del terzo millennio è ormai un dato di fatto. Le spietate leggi del mercato immobiliare, da una decina d'anni o giù di lì, hanno costretto improvvisatori e jazzisti ad attraversare l'East River, in fuga da una Manhattan sempre più cara. Brooklyn nuovo rifugio e nuova frontiera, dunque, ...