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Jared Hall - Hometown
by Ferdinand DuPuis-Panther, Jazz'Halo (Belgium)
To the album we read: "With HOMETOWN, trumpeter and composer Jared Hall brings listeners into a musically rich reflection on place, purpose, and artistic growth. Born in Spokane and seasoned by vibrant creative communities from Bloomington to Miami and Seattle, Hall returns to his roots with a lyrical voice shaped by decades of performance and collaboration. Here, he celebrates the grounding power of family, shared history, and the joy of... read more
Hal Galper - Live at the Berlin Philharmonic, 1977
by Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazz'halo (Belgium)
A nostalgic dip with nostalgia for a vibrant live concert? Then this 'Live At The Berlin Philharmonic' is a recommended remedy. Recorded in 1977 with the legendary brothers Michael and Randy Brecker on the front line along with pianist Hal Galper, bassist Wayne Dockery and drummer Bob Moses.
Galper, at the time sidekick to Dave Holland and Lee Konitz, among others, just returned from three years of touring with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet... read more
Hal Galper - Ivory Forest Redux
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The esteemed pianist Hal Galper brings us a remastered reissue of his late '70s masterpiece, Ivory Forest, and this updated version enhances John Scofield's guitar, Wayne Dockery's bass and Adam Nussbaum's drums, too.
The title track opens the listen with a light mood of agile keys, dreamy guitar and well timed drums in the very meticulous and adventurous climate, and "Continuity" follows with a sublime intimacy that showcases Galper's... read more
Alon Farber Hagiga - Reflecting On Freedom
by Ruth Fisher, JazzFM (UK)
The fourth album from Alon Farber's Hagiga band was inspired by Eddie Harris's 'Freedom Jazz Dance' and is a gorgeous blend of musical flavours and colours, swing, Moroccan, funk and Brazilian music that makes up that melting pot of the Israeli soundtrack.
But, it was Alon's arrangement of 'You'll See The Way' that really hooked me onto this album and when you take on a Matti Caspi song and make it sound as good as the original, you know... read more
Geof Bradfield - Our Roots
by Dave Rogers, WTJU - Richmond
Tenor sax man Geof Bradfield explains the premise of this disc as revisiting Clifford Jordan's tribute to Leadbelly when asked to put together a concert for the Fulton Street Jazz Record Collective. He and the band revisited these classic sounds while honoring the spirit that Jordan had first brought: play the old songs to honor them while adding your own voice which in itself has been influenced by the root without simply copying that root.... read more
Paul Marinaro - Mood Ellington
by Tim Larsen, Jazz Views (UK)
Mood Ellington is one of the year's best jazz vocal albums — impeccably arranged, deeply felt, and sung with a baritone that knows these songs inside out.
Paul Marinaro approached Mood Ellington with a smart concept: take 25 Ellington and Strayhorn tunes and group them by feel — love songs, darker ballads, and the more grounded, grown-up material — then bring in 13 arrangers to give each tune its own color. The result... read more
Mike Pope - The Parts You Keep
by Rudolf Radnai, avxforum.hu (Budapest)
Bassist, composer and sound engineer Mike Pope mixed and mastered his new album himself, the title of which was inspired by the title of a Tom Waits song "The Parts You Throw Away" in the opposite sense, of course. The album also features his own songs and arrangements, and as a touching ending, Pope inserts a recording of his 85-year-old mother, an excellent classical pianist, performing a solo performance of Ernst von Dohnányi's... read more
Hal Galper / Reggie Workman / Rashied Ali - Art-Work
by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Hal Galper's recordings always have an adventurous spirit, and the live CD Art-Work is no exception. The veteran pianist, joined by bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Rashid Ali (both veterans of John Coltrane's bands, though not at the same time), launches into a furious exploration of Duke Ellington's simple riff blues "Take the Coltrane," though Galper incorporates dissonance into the introduction and quickly builds steam as he takes the... read more
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