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New World Ensemble and the Jump Ensemble at Couth Buzzard Books & Community
by Bruce Greeley
New World Ensemble / Jump Ensemble Couth Buzzard Books & Community Seattle, WA March 1, 2024 For a number of years now, some of the most creative and interesting music in Seattle has been coming out of the fairly unassuming Couth Buzzard bookstore on north Greenwood the first Friday of every ...
Orlando le Fleming & Romantic Funk: Wandering Talk
by Chris May
Wandering Talk is the second part of a project from British bassist Orlando le Fleming which began with Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar (Whirlwind, 2020). The album convincingly brings together the acoustic jazz tradition and the lush but muscular electric fusion which emerged in the 1980s. Not for nothing is one of le Fleming's heroes, paid tribute ...
Leo Genovese: Forward
by Mike Jurkovic
Even after who-knows-how-many-years and who-knows-how-many-piano players, it is still outright amazing how each player approaches his/her instrument. Each has their own history, memory and/or love affair that somehow needs telling. Recorded in 2024 at the New York Forward Festival in Brooklyn, Grammy winning ("Best Improvised Jazz Solo," 2023) pianist Leo Genovese--his passions on his ...
Benjamin Boone: Confluence - The Ireland Sessions
by Jason Crane
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." --Oliver Wendell Holmes “It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." --Brendan Behan The Oliver Wendell Holmes quote is loftier, but the ...
Godwin Louis, Laurie Anderson, and remembering Jack Mouse
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Godwin Louis, Laurie Anderson, a previously unreleased tune from Wayne Shorter and remembering pioneering percussionist Jack Mouse.Playlist Godwin Louis “Thy Will Be Done" from Psalms and Proverbs (Blue Room) 0:00 Anna Butterss “Shorn" from Mighty Vertebrate (International Anthem) 4:49 Nduduzo Makhathini “Amathongo" from In The Spirit Of Ntu Blue Note 9:40 ...
David Larsen: Cohesion
by Edward Blanco
Baritone saxophonist David Larsen has produced one of the finest albums of pure hard bop music on the jazz landscape of today. Cohesion contains a treasure trove of fresh new original material from Larsen and tenor saxophonist Darryl Yokley. Larsen leads the driving, dark and impassioned sounds of hard bop. His pronounced baritone voice is best ...
Devin Daniels Quintet: LesGo!
by Joshua Weiner
Devin Daniels is an up-and-coming Los Angeles-based alto saxophonist whose debut album, Trio Exposition, dropped in 2022 on The Village label. Having toured with Herbie Hancock and played at an all-star tribute to Wayne Shorter at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 2023, it would seem that his star is rapidly rising. This new album, ...
Jerome Sabbagh: Heart
by Chris May
AAJ occasionally publishes reviews which call out the barbarism of digital-only albums (Heart is not one of these, please hang on in there). Item: the review of Brazilian saxophonist and flautist Vinicius Mendes' Macunaismo Tardio Vol. 1&2 (Notes On A Journey, 2024). The two albums collected on that vinyl double-LP, blinders both, were originally released separately ...
My Conversation with David Binney
by Glenn Astarita
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 1999. New York City-based saxophonist and composer David Binney has been getting lots of well-deserved attention over the last several years. Three excellent CDs with the unique and hard driving band Lost Tribe, stints with Medeski Martin & Wood, Drew Gress' Jagged Sky, Aretha ...
Chris Dingman: Inner Child
by Scott Lichtman
Vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman is well known amongst top-level musicians. He's played with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ambrose Akinmusire and Steve Lehman; appeared on over 40 albums; and won industry critics polls. His own recordings stand out for blending technical facility on vibes with introspective ambience. “Inner Child" is one such track, an early path-setting ...
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