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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life
by Doug Collette
As passionate as each man is intelligent, both pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith also manifest healthy egos. Accordingly, collaborations like Defiant Life require each man to contour his skills to complement the other sufficiently. Their shared humility is intrinsic to solidifying the inspiring bond that arises from the two not only playing, but ...
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, Kneebody, Claire Cope and Ensemble C, and remembering Roy Ayers. Playlist Roy Ayers “Hey Lover" from Jazz Is Dead #1 (Jazz Is Dead) 0:00 Roy Ayers Ubiquity “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:24 Chien Chien Lu “ We Live In Brooklyn, ...
RCA Jazz Workshop + Kevin Sun, Yuhan Su, Connie Han
by David Brown
This week is a two-part show. Part 1 takes a look at The RCA Victor Jazz Workshop series of LPs released between 1956 and 57. RCA promoted the releases stating: “This exciting new series would be a transmission belt for new ideas in jazz orchestration, or sometimes for experiments in instrumentation." The artists were Manny Albam, ...
Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift
by Jack Kenny
Benjamin Lackner has a vision and his album is a coherent statement of his ideas: a radical statement of lyricism, gentleness, restraint and understatement. It was a long-time dream. For some time, Benjamin Lackner has had a wish to record with ECM. In an interview, he outlined his attempts to produce music that would ...
Bobby Timmons + 2024 Look Back
by David Brown
This week, we sample two albums recorded on this day, December 21, 2024 in history: Andrew Hill's Spiral(1974) featuring Lee Konitz and Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (1966). From there we'll remember Philadelphia pianist Bobby Timmons who was born 89 years ago this week. Tunes will include “Moanin"as performed with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, ...
I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu
by Ludovico Granvassu
Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...
Most Read Album Reviews: 2024
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2024. The late Chris May placed five reviews in the top ten. MoonDial Pat Metheny Reviewed by Chris May July 12, 2024 Eagle's Point Chris Potter ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024
by Ludovico Granvassu
Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...
Compassion
By Vijay Iyer
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Compassion; Arch; Overjoyed; Maelstrom; Prelude: Orison; Tempest; Panegyric; Nonaah; Where I Am; Ghostrumental; It Goes; Free Spirits / Drummer’s Song.
Orange Afternoons
By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Gulf; Valori Bollati; Solato; Orologi; Orange Afternoons; Frontier Justice.
