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Paul Tynan - quARTet
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
4-STARS Trumpeter Paul Tynan's offering for 2019 is entitled quARTtet, emphasis on the capitalization of the embedded word "art."
Jazz recordings have a long history of pairing up with the visual arts, especially in the realm of album and CD cover images: The paintings on Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959); all of pianist Dave Brubeck's "Time" recordings of the late 1950/early 1960s; and drummer Chico Hamilton's Ellington... read more
Marc Seales - People & Places
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Nice and easy soul jazz in world view of Grover Washington Jr is laid out by Marc Seales, playing piano and keyboards and featuring the warm tenor sax of Ernie Watts alongside Bruce Lett/b and Moyes Lucas, Jr/dr. Seales goes does as easy as 25 year old Scottish Whiskey as he plays the keyboards on the dreamy "Rue Cler" and veers around Let on the stylish "Ascending Truth". He gives a nice piano workout on the rich aria of "Prelude" and is cool... read more
Eddie Allen and PUSH - The Rhythm
by Mark Griffith, Modern Drummer
A record called The Rhythm sounds like it should feature some wonderful drumming, and it does! Drummer EJ Strickland is one of the most overlooked jazz drummers on the New York jazz scene.
He always makes everyone around him sound better, and he always plays the music with taste and perfection. This record is no different. His hook-up with bassist Kenny Davis is transparent, always there without drawing too much attention to itself. Listen to... read more
Emma Larsson - Sing To the Sky
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
One of the most denigrated categories is "jazz female vocalists." Most either try to sound like a quirky indie like Norah Jones, or try to jump on the Diana Krall bandwagon by ONCE AGAIN revisiting the Great American Songbook. Well, if you want something else, here is an artist that has the pulse of jazz, but delivered in fresh voice. What a joy!
Emma Larsson writes all of the material here, and it's worth listening to. She bonds with an... read more
Lynn Bush with New Stories - Still Life
by Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
The Northwest U.S. in general, and Seattle in particular, simply teems with outstanding jazz artists. Now comes vocalist Lynn Bush with her warm, contemporary approach to a play list of mostly familiar material. Bush and her confreres have turned out an album in which they share, in almost equal parts, the time allocated for this album to make each song their own. Marc Seales on piano, when relieved of the responsibility of providing understated... read more
Big Neighborhood - Neighbors
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
This sax/bass/guitar/drums quartet struck me on first listen as a group that Steely Dan might hire for a recording session. The sound is crisp and clean, modern, with sharp lines and well-defined, ear-grabbing tangents. And democratic, as opposed to a sax-in-front-of-a-rhythm section affair. Then I heard some Pat Metheny shadings when guitarist David White brings the guitar synthesizer into the mix; but the sound is friskier than Metheny's, the... read more
Kobie Watkins - Involved
by John Barron, All About Jazz
Perhaps the title to drummer Kobie Watkins' debut, Involved, makes reference to the Chicago native's involvement with some of the highest profile jazz artists around. A regular in the bands of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, guitarist Bobby Broom, and vocalist Kurt Elling, Watkins has proven himself a stand-out accompanist, possessing a confident blend of fire and sensitivity. With a slew of fellow Chicagoans, including Broom, trumpeter Pharez... read more
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters - Abstract Quantities
by Hobart Taylor, KUCI, Irvine, CA
Trumpeter McCullough and pianist Weijters recorded this very contemporary sounding disc last summer in Brussels. Like Robert Glasper, Vijay Iyer, The Bad Plus, and Kris Bowers, sometimes they use traditional jazz instrumentation and structure to enhance melodies and beats that might resonate for audiences weaned on acid jazz and hip-hop, for example, "Billions". "Mr. Rubato", on the other hand evokes the image of a soul wandering among rocky... read more
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