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Rodney Whitaker - Common Ground: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Tomas Peña, JazzDeLaPena
Bass player Rodney Whitaker moves in the highest circles of the jazz world. But when he meets a self-taught artist, his ears perk up. "They'll say 'you don't want to listen to me, I'm not trained.'" Whitaker says. "But I do. People who have figured things out themselves really know something." So when Whitaker met Gregg Hill, a self-taught jazz composer, he was ready to listen.
Whitaker has worked with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Roy... read more
George Colligan - The Endless Mysteries
by Ben Turner, Jazz Reviews
George Colligan's been busy gigging, teaching ingrates like myself at Portland State, raising a son, and he had time to record a great trio album with Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier. Man, what am I doing with my life?
George is a long-time friend of and collaborator with Jack DeJohnette, touring worldwide and appearing with him at last year's Portland Jazz Fest. He holds degree in trumpet from Peabody, mostly taught himself piano, and... read more
Hal Galper / Reggie Workman / Rashied Ali - Art-Work
by Geoffrey Himes, The Village Voice
THE VILLAGE VOICE
2009 Jazz Critics Poll
TOP TEN NEW RELEASES 2009
Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Washington Post)
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
Dave Douglas: A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark... read more
Lorin Cohen - Home
by Yoshi Kato, Downbeat
Double bassist Cohen plays regularly with pianist Monty Alexander and vibraphonists Joe Locke and Stefon Harris, and those gigs are reflected on Home, the bassist's debut album. By bringing aboard steel pan player and U.S. Virgin Islands native Victor Provost, Cohen, a Chicago native, revisits the reggae and Caribbean sounds he heard as a child while vacationing in South Florida Cohen presents his deep, mahogany tone early into the opening cut,... read more
Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz - A Family Affair - Live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase
by Lloyd Sachs, Jazzespress
Yes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but sometimes an album is more than an album. Just looking at the cover of Ira Sullivan's new CD, A Family Affair, looking at him sharing grins with Joe Segal of the Jazz Showcase (where the CD was recorded) and vibraphonist/pianist Stu Katz (his co-leader and longtime crony), summons deep feelings of good fortune. About this thing called Chicago jazz. About being in the right place during the right times... read more
Scott Reeves Quintet - The Alchemist
by Delarue, Lucid Culture, NYC
Scott Reeves got his start as a trombonist, has played a lot of big band gigs over the years and became a fearsomely good composer of jazz for large ensembles. He's put out two big band albums and both are excellent. He also has a thing for unorthodox instruments: these days, his two main axes are the alto flugelhorn and the even rarer alto valve trombone. Like so many artists during the lockdown, he found himself going through his archives and... read more
Todd Bishop - Little Played Little Bird
by C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz
In the twilight days of the compact disc as a sound storage device, the most compelling reason for keeping what still seems a "new" audio media (compared to wax cylinders and 78s) in the face of purely electronic media is "concept" or "thematic" releases. One such example was drummer Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4 album, 69 Annee Erotique (Origin Records, 2009). This excellent release surveyed the music of French pop artist Serge Gainsbourg, music with... read more
Jordan VanHemert - Deep in the Soil
by C. Andrew Hovan, Liner Notes
Born in Korea and raised in Michigan, Jordan VanHemert counts himself among those youngsters that got involved in his school music program by starting out on the alto saxophone. Also like many of his fellow saxophonists, VanHemert eventually moved away from the smaller horn to devote his full energies to the tenor sax, an instrument emblematic of the jazz heritage. "In my formative years, I was almost exclusively an alto saxophonist," VanHemert... read more
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