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Storms/Nocturnes - VIA
by Joachym Ettel, Ultimo L�beck (Germany)
"The fact that vibraphonist Joe Locke and pianist Geoffrey Keezer make a highly captivating team has already been established at JazzBaltica 2007 where they created extraordinary moments, often even outshining the sum of all components. Locke and Keezer have always been sharing a similar musical philosophy and know how to drive each other on to create a live interplay that culminates in the most fiery artistic passion. With the third... read more
Piet Verbist - Secret Exit to Another Dimension
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4-STARS Belgian bassist Piet Verbist has featured saxophonists on each of his previous Origin Records albums—bass, drums and a horn or two seems to be his way of working. With Secret Exit To Another Dimension, his fifth Origin outing, he pares things down to the trio format, creating a distinctive guitar/bass/drums sound that has a strikingly modern feel.
It has become cliche to say—especially when speaking of trio of bass and... read more
Geof Bradfield - Urban Nomad
by Paul Abella, Chicago Jazz Magazine
Geof Bradfield is the latest Chicago artist to record a superb record for Seattle's Origin Records. Linked to one of the baddest rhythm sections that Chicago has to offer, this album has the whole package: groove, great tunes and stellar soloing. It would be easy enough to end the review here with a two-word benediction?buy this?but instead, I will elaborate on why this is such a good album.
First off, as always, it's about the players.... read more
Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble - The Atwood Suites
by Michael J West, DownBeat - Live Review
Guimarães Jazz Fest Doesn't Play It Safe "Aqui Nasceu Portugal," says a sign on the 1,000-year-old stone tower in Guimarães' historic city center. "Here Portugal was born." The decisive battle of Portuguese independence took place in the shadow of the castle wall in 1128. And because of this, Guimarães remains one of Portugal's most important cities, even if its 52,000 inhabitants don't make it one of the largest.
If anything, its... read more
Brent Jensen w/ Bill Anschell, Jeff Johnson, John Bishop - One More Mile
by Scott Albin, JazzTimes
For his fifth Origin CD, Idaho-based Brent Jensen parts ways with his alto sax to perform exclusively on the soprano, and proves to be just as proficient and engaging on the straight horn. With the inspired support of his fellow Origin recording artists from Seattle?the trio of pianist Bill Anschell, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer (and label founder) John Bishop?the gifted Jensen impresses throughout a wide-ranging set of tunes.
The loping... read more
Jack Mouse - Range of Motion
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
A Chicago drummer that?s played with everyone, including an impressive roster of the classic cats, puts out a set of originals that rivals anything in the classic Bluenote or Verve canon. Smoking sitting down jazz, the light here is on a crew of Chicago cats that gets a fine chance to show the rest of the world they are all world class players as well. A session you?ll be sure to go back to often, this is the fine sound of pros that know what... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs For A New Century
by Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes, July/August 2008
Songs For A New Century is an intensely personal real-time document. Jessica Williams composed all but one of the nine pieces, and recorded the album herself. She says in the liner notes that this solo album "is what I'm hearing and seeing now. ... This has been my life of late." It is about emerging from the grieving of the post-9/11 years and giving herself permission to hope again. (In musical terms, it is a broad transition from D... read more
Jeff Johnson - Tall Stranger
by Doug Simpsom, Audiophile Audition
Seattle's jazz scene is not well known for music that strays from a melodically mainstream focus. Emerald city bassist Jeff Johnson, though, has been producing challenging music that courses from avant-garde to stripped-down European-tinted free jazz, and his fourth album, Tall Stranger, finds the composer/player once again presenting liberating, sparse forms that stress trio improvisation.
Johnson is expertly abetted by friend and... read more
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