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Ryan Cohan - Originations
by Hrayr Attarian, Chicago Jazz Magazine
Pianist and composer Ryan Cohan is a master of creating harmony from contrasts. Over the years his works have incorporated many diverse influences and have become progressively more impressionistic. His acclaimed 2013 release The River even inspired painter Ellen Priest to create an abstract canvas that was displayed at St Peter's Church in Manhattan. Cohan's sixth release as a leader, the sublime Originations, matches his previous oeuvre in... 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
Allison Adams Tucker - WANDERlust
by Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz
Many modern-day jazz vocalists have been known to touchdown in a few different locales over the course of an album, but few to none get their passports stamped in as many places as Allison Adams Tucker does on the aptly named WANDERlust. Tucker brings her multilingual brilliance and cultural savvy to the fore during this expertly planned travelogue.
Tucker's voice is a beautiful instrument - one that floats, flies, and seduces with its... read more
Dave Hanson - Blues Sky
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Dave Hanson plays piano and Fender with his team of Mark Simon/b, Paul Romaine/dr and guest Wil Swindler/ts-as on this collection of bluesy originals. On piano, Hanson has that classic warm feel a la Kenny Barron, as he shifts gears on the post bopping "Arnhem" and is lyrically stately around Romaine's brushes during "As It Was And Is", niftily veering through Simon's bass lines on "Cross Steps" and boogalooing with him on "Dylan Dream". His... read more
John Stowell | Michael Zilber - Shot Through With Beauty
by Andrew Gilbert, KQED Arts
As the title suggests, East Bay saxophone master Mike Zilber and redoubtable Portland, Ore. guitarist John Stowell share an unabashed love of sumptuous melodies. Accompanied by the invaluable rhythm section tandem of bassist John Shifflett and drummer Jason Lewis, they investigate tunes like Kenny Wheeler's "Kayak" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma" and finely wrought originals (Zilber's deceptively pacific 10-minute title track is the album's... read more
Carlos Vega - Art of the Messenger
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
Tenor saxophonist Carlos Vega is a steeped-in-the-tradition fan of early bebop, displaying his passion for the genre with his nods to alto saxophonist Charlie Parker on Bird's Ticket (2016) and Bird's Up (2017), both on Origin Records. With Art Of The Messenger he shifts his focus to Art Blakey, the drummer who led the Jazz Messengers from 1955 onward for thirty-five years, helping define—in the early years—the hard bop Blue Note Records... read more
Peter Erskine & The JAM Music Lab All-Stars - Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
Peter Erskine and his crew tip their hat to the work of two Viennese composers, E.W. Korngold and Max Steiner, and it makes for a diverse and intricate 12 songs.
The energetic "March Of The Merry Men" starts the listen with Erskine's marching band style drumming alongside Thomas Gansch's vibrant trumpet, and "Sterbelied" follows with Danny Grissett's gentle piano and Fabricio Pereira's calm bass setting an intimate mood.
Further along,... read more
Hal Galper - E Pluribus Unum - Live in Seattle
by Marc Van de Walle, Jazzmozaïek - Belgium
This live recording from Seattle in 2009 shows Galper at his best. With a lot of energy and a certain theatricality (in the positive sense of the word, Galper is not an exhibitionist), his four original compositions set high demands on the group, but they follow and support the pianist perfectly. Even more: they add value. Their solos fit seamlessly into the energetic, passionate style Galper owns. On the album you will find also three standards... read more
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