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Cathy Segal-Garcia - SOCIAL ANTHEMS, VOLUME 1
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The Los Angeles vocalist Cathy Segal-Garcia brings us back to songs from the '60s and '70s here, where the strong lyrical content suits the many problems we are dealing with in today's society, and she's got Anthony Wilson, Josh Nelson, Lorca Hart, Edwin Livingston, Paul Jost and Mon David to help her on the aptly titled album.
"For What It's Worth", by Stephen Stills, starts the listen with soft piano and warm guitar as Segal-Garcia's... read more
Hadley Caliman - Gratitude
by Larry Taylor, Jazz Review
It's always great when a jazz star, off the national scene for years, reappears, sounding just as good as ever. This is the case with tenor sax veteran Hadley Caliman and his new CD, Gratitude.
Out of the mainstream, living in Seattle, teaching and playing local gigs, Caliman's recording shows his horn hasn't been idle all this time. He is joined here by a group of first-rate musicians - the great Joe Locke on vibes, the lyrical Tom... read more
Jessica Williams - The Art of the Piano
by Doug Ramsey, Rifftides
Williams' 2800-word liner essay declares renewed and deepened love for the piano and rededicated independence from the strictures and orthodoxies of the music establishment. She cites an internet video clip of Glenn Gould playing Bach as "...a life-altering event" that took her back to "...a music founded on the purity and clarity and infinite tonal colorations of the piano itself." Those are qualities I have never found missing from her work,... read more
David Weiss Sextet - Auteur
by David R. Adler, JazzTimes
Real Talk: A Conversation with Trumpeter David Weiss
On the rigors of bandleading, and the discovery of rare tunes by Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton
Significant events can happen quietly in our jazz world (another way of saying they're getting ignored). Like the fact that trumpeter David Weiss recorded a previously unknown Freddie Hubbard composition, "Rebop," on his 2024 sextet release Auteur (Origin). There's a previously... read more
Geof Bradfield - melba!
by Jeff Tamarkin, JazzTimes
The Melba of the title is Liston, a trombonist, composer, and arranger who built a formidable reputation in a mostly male world both as a leader and in her arranging and playing with Gerald Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Count Basie and, especially, beginning in the late 50's Randy Weston. Weston gives saxophonist and clarinetist Bradfield his blessing in the album's liner notes, and the acclaim is deserved.... read more
Jordan VanHemert - Survival of the Fittest
by Fred Bouchard, The New York City Jazz Record
The laconic Japanese adage "Fall seven times, stand up eight" underpins a subtext behind the title of Jordan VanHemert's fifth leader date, Survival of the Fittest. A hearty, adept, good-humored tenor saxophonist, the 30ish Korean-born Michigander here re-assembles, with trombonist-producer Michael Dease, the sextet of their slightly elder peers that, in last year's Deep In The Soil (Topic), first examined the resilience, self-reliance and... read more
Diego Barber & Hugo Cipres - 411
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
Here's one the moldy figs won't be able to handle. A jazzbo guitarist gets together with an electronic dj and rounds out his sound with some first call downtown cats. You call almost hear listeners kvetching the way they did when Eric Dolphy first started being out there. Not really jazz, not really King Crimson or Kraftwerk, it's a trip into the next wave that has to be taken on its own terms. Feeling closer to Bernie Krause without the... read more
Dan Cray - Outside In
by Quentin Coaxum, Chicago Jazz Magazine
Outside In marks Dan Cray's second release on Origin Records. Once based in Chicago, Cray now resides in Brooklyn and has returned to the studio to record music inspired by his travels throughout Big Sure and the Sierra Mountains. Recorded in New York, Cray has set out to create music inspired by nature's natural ambiance and inner peace.
The album opens with an original composition by Cray, "Small Sir," and is initiated by a... read more
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