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Harvie S - Bright Dawn
by Stephen Graham, Marlbank (UK)
I have long admired bassist Harvie S. He has lots of records as a leader. But I like his sideman work probably more. So what about this latest album as leader?
It benefits from the presence of Peter Bernstein. The M.T.B. guitar icon's presence kind of sold me on it - the other players are pianist Miki Hayama whose work I greatly admired heard on Nnenna Freelon's Time Traveler and drummer Matt Wilson whose brushwork on 'Devil May Care' is... read more
Bobby Broom - My Shining Hour
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
Few guitarists these days possess an identifiable tone; Bobby Broom's one of the guys who does. He's been a perfect foil for tenor guys like Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Rollins, as his #2 pencil thin tone mixed with a duster of a strum is like a signature from a fountain pen.
Most of the standards here are taken at a joyful and midtempo lilt, making "My Ideal" more wistful than longing and "My Shining Hour" brimming with hope.... read more
Rodney Whitaker - Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The inimitable bassist Rodney Whitaker brings along Terell Stafford (trumpet/flugelhorn), Tim Warfield (tenor/soprano sax), Bruce Barth (piano), Dana Hall (bass) and Rockelle Fortin (vocals) for these songs that pay homage to Gregg Hill's rhythmic and melodic legacy with strong attention to detail.
"Betty's Tune" starts the listen with animated keys and frisky drumming, as Fortin's soulful and expressive singing adds to the lively climate,... read more
Jack Perla - Enormous Changes
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
A very personal album from a cat that has had his share of enormous changes over the last few years, Perla takes a break from his opera world commissions and heads back to late 60s jazz rock for a mental and spiritual cleansing that finds him right in the pocket of pre-fusion where the seeds were being sown. This feels much like the kind of post civil rights jazz "Stan" Clarke was recording for Polydor prior to Return to Forever coming... read more
Arthur Kell Speculation Quartet - Live at LunÀtico
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Bassist Arthur Kell puts together a two-guitar front line of Nate Radley and Brad Shepik along with drummer Allan Mednard for a pair of gigs recorded at Bar LunAtico in Brooklyn in 2022. The set is bookended with contemplative rubato of "Speculation" and closing with a more dramatic version. In between, the strings bop with delight around Kell's bouncing bass on "Haflat Zifaf", get funky on the grease lined "The Djado" and chime like bells on... read more
Michael Dease - City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4 1/2 STARS Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone—see Sonny Rollins' blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West—the music flows freely. The player do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of the melodies with freewheeling rhythmic finesse.
Trombone, bass and drums outings are... read more
Andrea Brachfeld - Brazilian Whispers
by Jim Macnie, DownBeat
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Courageous redecoration often is a valuable stance when updating classics. I'd never imagined Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Waters Of March" as a shuffle until spinning this salute to the maestro's book by flutist Andrea Brachfeld. The signature esprit of Brazil's samba/bossa nexus gets its due, but a feisty groove dominates her band's rendering, and by the time they reach full speed, the March of the title is more "in like a... read more
Florian Hoefner - Luminosity
by Michael J. West, Jazztimes
"Typical" and "generic" aren't synonyms. Pianist Florian Hoefner works to create music that " doesn't sound like generic jazz." To be sure, Luminosity, Hoefner's third album with his quartet, is not generic, with its oblong structures and meters that require listeners to search for the 1. But its use of those elements to distinguish it does make it fairly typical mid-2010s postbop.
But never mind: The point is it's very... read more
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