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Ben Kono Group: Voyages

Read "Voyages" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
February 23, 2025

This album is saxophonist Ben Kono's tribute to his family's history, dating back to his grandfather's migration from Japan to the United States in 1911, performed by a combination of small jazz group and string quartet, The first half of the work concerns with his family's transition into life in the United States, and the second ...

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Voyages

By Ben Kono

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.

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Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages

Read "Voyages" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 4, 2022

As on a high speed, downhill slalom chase, listeners are suddenly, nakedly and without poles hurled into “Missed Calls"; the opening burst of sublime energy and groupthink cracks Voyages wide open, sets the mad, determined pace and tone for a craftily organic, six-song, free-jazz adventure which never lets up. It is breakneck rhythm churning, keening, into ...

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Voyages

By Julie Sassoon

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Missed Calls; Shifting; Waltz With Me; Jerusalem; Outside; Melody.

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Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages

Read "Voyages" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 30, 2021

Not all voyages involve smooth sailing. Indeed, pianist Julie Sassoon's Voyages opens on a blustery note. It is a quartet outing--as opposed to Sassoon's 2021 solo set, When You Can't go Outside...Go Inside (Jazzwerkstatt), with the pianist joined by reedman Lothar Ohlmeier, bassist Meirad Kneer and drummer Rudi Fischerlehner. The opener, “Missed Calls," sounds like a ...

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Voyages

By Myriam Phiro

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: I Love Paris; Beyond the Sea / La Mer; Nature Boy (feat. Dominique Gagné); It Had to Be You; Caravan (feat. Robbie Klein); Skylark; Besame Mucho (feat. Adrien Chevalier); I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire (feat. Robbie Klein); Autumn in New York; On a Slow Boat to China (feat. Dominique Gagné); Tico Tico (feat. Adrien Chevalier); Moonglow; Volare (feat. Adrien Chevalier); In My Life (feat. John Di Martino)

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VOYAGES - ARNOLD LUDVIG SEXTET

By Arnold Ludvig

Label: Tutl Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Port of Thor; I Feel Better; Gentle Seas; Homebound Traveller; Midnight Lullaby; Journey to Copenhagen