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Article: Album Review

Gerard Presencer & Danish Radio Big Band: Groove Travels

Read "Groove Travels" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Something of a child prodigy Gerard Presencer became a member of Britain's acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1983 at a mere eleven years of age and NYJO's youngest trumpeter. Along with other young talented UK musicians such as Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith, Presencer was part of a new wave of British jazz. He's played ...

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Article: Album Review

Mateusz Palka/Szymon Mika Quartet: Popyt

Read "Popyt" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The title of the debut album from the Polish quartet co-led by Mateusz Palka and Szymon Mika translates as “demand," reflecting the group's belief that greater melodic expression is what the modern jazz fan pines for. It follows that the six originals--and a cover of Sonny Rollins' “Airegin"--are above all tuneful, with the extended soloing, that ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Uno sguardo alla chitarra nel jazz contemporaneo

Read "Uno sguardo alla chitarra nel jazz contemporaneo" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


La chitarra è ormai da decenni uno degli strumenti più popolari e diffusi nel jazz; tanti sono stati, e sono tuttora, gli interpreti di questo strumento, protagonisti di un suo progressivo affrancamento dalle iniziali convenzioni per arrivare a renderlo sempre più libero e trasversale, al servizio di una maggiore e completa espressività del musicista che lo ...

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Wes Montgomery: Night in Indy

Wes Montgomery: Night in Indy

George Klabin and Zev Feldman at Resonance Records have done it again. The dynamic duo have surfaced yet more rare Wes Montgomery, with the full participation of Robert Montgomery of the Montgomery estate. This time it's Wes Montgomery: One Night in Indy, recorded on January 18, 1959 in Indianapolis. Guitarist Wes Montgomery here was backed by ...

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Wes Montgomery: In The Beginning-Early Recordings from 1949-1958

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Disc 1: After You've Gone; Fascinating Rhythm; Brazil; What Is There to Say?; Four;. Wes' Tune; My Heart Stood Still; How High the Moon; Django;. Going Down to Big Mary's; I Should Care; Caravan; Six Bridges to Cross; Ralph's New Blues. Disc 2: Soft Winds; Robbins' Nest; A Night in Tunisia; Love for Sale; Leila; Blues; Undecided; Far Wes; All the Things You Are; King Trotter; Carlena's Blues; Smooth Evening.

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Article: Album Review

Tom Matta Big Band: Standards

Read "Standards" reviewed by Jack Bowers


What's in a name? After all, a big-band jazz album by any other name would sound the same. On the other hand, it should be pointed out that as the versatile Tom Matta has chosen the name Standards to define his second album as leader of the Chicago-based Tom Matta Big Band, only three of the ...

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News: Recording

Vocalist / Guitarist / Composer Camila Meza Takes Flight With New Album, "Traces," On Sunnyside Records

Vocalist / Guitarist / Composer Camila Meza Takes Flight With New Album, "Traces," On Sunnyside Records

Available on February 26, 2016 Featuring Camila Meza (guitar & vocals), Sachal Vasandani (vocals on “Away"), Shai Maestro (piano, Rhodes, wurlitzer, mellotron, pump organ, ampli-celeste), Matt Penman (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums), Bashiri Johnson (percussion), Jody Redhage (cello), Matt Pierson (producer). CD Release Celebration February 24, 2016 @ The Jazz Standard January 15, 2016 at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

John Abercrombie on ECM - Part 1: Through the '80s

Read "John Abercrombie on ECM - Part 1: Through the '80s" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Now that the The First Quartet set of recordings by guitarist/composer John Abercrombie from 1979-1981 has been released, it is as good a time as any to explore Abercrombie's career on ECM as a leader/co-leader, plus some his work as a sideman. There is a famous epithet from Bill Evans: “Jazz is not a ...

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Article: Year in Review

Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2015

Read "Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2015" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The year 2015 was truly an exciting one for jazz as it saw many superb releases. If I had, however, the proverbial gun to the head to just choose just one it would be Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (ACT, 2015). Nevertheless, the cream of the crop of the year is listed below in five triads. The ...

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Article: Live Review

The Chuck Anderson Trio featuring Coreen at The Media Jazz Festival

Read "The Chuck Anderson Trio featuring  Coreen at The Media Jazz Festival" reviewed by Mike Oppenheim


The Chuck Anderson Trio featuring Jazz Vocalist Coreen Media Jazz Festival Media, PA November 21 2015 At the 13th annual Media Jazz Festival, the Chuck Anderson Trio made their fourth appearance since 2007, but this time with a new component to the show: the trio was joined by featured jazz vocalist ...


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