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News: Recording

ECM Records Releases Michael Formanek's "The Distance"

ECM Records Releases Michael Formanek's "The Distance"

Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus is: Loren Stillman (alto saxophone); Oscar Noriega (alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet); Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet); Brian Settles (tenor sax, flute); Tim Berne (baritone sax); Dave Ballou, Ralph Alessi, Shane Endsley (trumpets); Kirk Knuffke (cornet); Alan Ferber, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein (trombones); Jeff Nelson (bass trombone, contrabass trombone); Patricia Brennan (Marimba), ...

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News: Recording

ECM Records Releases Avishai Cohen's "Into The Silence"

ECM Records Releases Avishai Cohen's "Into The Silence"

Avishai Cohen: trumpet; Yonathan Avishai: piano; Eric Revis: double bass; Nasheet Waits: drums; Bill McHenry: tenor saxophone. Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner’s Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a program of expansive and impressionistic compositions ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance

Read "The Distance" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Jazz composers writing for large ensembles have often avoided the label “big band," going back to the Jazz Composer's Orchestra in the '60s, not to mention Sun Ra's Arkestra and the many Swing Era bands that called themselves orchestras. It's an understandable choice, given the unavoidable--and potentially limiting--stylistic associations that come with the big band name. ...

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Article: Album Review

The Jam: Setting Sons Deluxe Edition

Read "Setting Sons Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette


The Jam's muscular musicianship is a direct reflection of titular leader Paul Weller's compositions for the trio, a symbiosis never more vivid than on the ambitious likes of Setting Sons. And this double-disc edition of the British band's fourth album reaffirms the blinding speed by which the trio progressed from being earnest young musicians paying tribute ...

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Article: Album Review

Dr. Lonnie Smith: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Artist repatriation seems to be something of a theme in the Don Was era of Blue Note Records. In 2013 there was the return of saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a jazz giant who delivered many of his landmark '60s albums on this storied imprint. Then, in 2015, Charles Lloyd left ECM for Blue Note, a label that ...

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Sticky Fingers Live

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2015
Track listing: Sway; Dead Flowers; Wild Horses; Sister Morphine; You Gotta Move; Bitch; Can’t You Hear Me Knocking; I Got the Blues; Moonlight Mile; Brown Sugar.

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Stick Fingers Live

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2015

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Italian Short Stories

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2015
Track listing: Recollection; The Bubble Vendor; Motion in Stillness; Ravel's Waltz; Let the Magic Begin; Olivetti's Touch; "Jamme!"; Interius Tranquilitas; Nothing Must Change; The Amused Gypsy Girl; Sensually Deranged; Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G Major; Back to My Roots; Echos of Naples.


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