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Bobby Broom - The Way I Play: Live In Chicago
by D. Oscar Grimes, O's Place Jazz Letter
Guitarist Bobby Broom leads a trio with Dennis Carroll (b) and Kobie Watkins (d) for this live session at Pete Miller's Steakhouse in Chicago. They are playing bebop - eight covers of classic tunes. Bobby takes the bull by the horns on Parker's "Donna Lee" and Rollins' "Unit 7" with great fills from Watkins. Performing in a restaurant is always challenge but at least a few of the patrons were captured by Broom's work and there was lots of... read more
John La Barbera Big Band - Grooveyard
by Ruud Jonker, FWD Magazine (Netherlands)
*Top 11 CDs of 2024* A number of arrangements or inspired works created by John La Barbera, based on the material or performances of Dave Brubeck, Henri Mancini, Carl Perkins, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Elvin Jones and others. They are played by a big band. The special thing about this formula is that not the entire band is constantly in the picture. There is a nice variety of solo instruments and conversations between those... read more
Human Spirit - Dialogue
by Tom Hull, Jazz Perspectives
Human Spirit: Dialogue: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival (2011 [2012], Origin): Seattle group, named for recent Thomas Marriott album -- Marriott plays trumpet, Mark Taylor alto sax, and Matt Jorgensen drums, each contributing tunes (Marriott 4 of 8, the others two each), but since that doesn't quite make for a modern postbop band, they added "special guets" Orrin Evans (piano) and Essiet Essiet (bass) -- Evans was an especially... read more
John Stowell | Michael Zilber - Live Beauty
by Jason Bivins, Cadence
Live Beauty is filled with fine, probing modern mainstream that has a wide rhythmic range of reference but a lyrical heart. From instrumentation to idiom, it's indebted to sessions from the likes of Abercrombie/Surman and Scofield/Lovano, two key points of influence that shouldn't require any positive elaboration. Stowell is based in Portland, and Zilber's from the East Bay, and it's nice that they're documenting their longstanding collaboration... read more
Thomas Marriott - Urban Folklore
by David Cohen, Jazzenzo (Netherlands)
A deserted intersection in nocturnal Seattle, and on the back, a trumpeter blowing in the dark on the pavement. The content of Thomas Marriott's "Urban Folklore" is less somber than the album cover leads one to suspect. From beginning to end, the quartet provides the American trumpeter with swift, great-sounding straight ahead jazz.
In the fast opener "Apophis," the rhythm section of bassist Eric Revis (known from the Branford... read more
Ray LeVier - Ray's Way
by Don Lerman, Cadence
Leader and drummer Ray Levier utilizes a top-notch cast of musicians in different group combinations ranging from trio to quintet size in this excellent concert of mostly original music. The pairing of John Abercrombie and Joe Locke on guitar and vibes occurs on five of the nine selections, performing thought-provoking originals from each core group member, including Abercrombie's "Ralph's Piano Waltz," bassist Francois Moutin's "Echoing," and... read more
Carlos Vega - Bird's Up
by Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation
Carlos's high-energy & high-talent tenor and soprano sax work always gets high ratings here... I reviewed him just a while back in issue # 164, & this newest release is even better... you'll also hear great playing from Victor Garcia on Trumpet, Flugelhorn; Stu Mindeman - Piano, Rhodes; Josh Ramos - Bass; Xavier Breaker - Drums; Cheryl Wilson - Vocals; Scott Hesse - Guitar; Steve Strand - Flugelhorn and Michael B. Nelson -... read more
Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill - Inside Voice / Outside Voice
by Russell Perry, WTJU
Bassist Michael Bisio (Matthew Shipp, Kirk Knuffke, Whit Dickey) and guitarist / singer Timothy Hill have released a very idiosyncratic disc with equal parts ballads from the Great American Songbook (For All We Know, I Fall in Love To Easily), classics of the edges of modern jazz (Coltrane's Wise One, Ornette's Law Years, Henry Grimes's For Django) and duet improvisations (Hearsay, Transfigure). Each of these angles has merit. The ballads show... read more
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