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Benjamin Boone with the Ghana Jazz Collective - Joy
by Chris M. Slawecki, All About Jazz
4-STARS Benjamin Boone's set with this band born and grown in Ghana is a genuine cross-cultural jazz Joy.
The seeds of Joy were planted when composer-saxophonist Boone spent a year as a US Fulbright Scholar in Ghana in sabbatical from his professorship at California State University (Fresno), to study the country's music and musical traditions. The music Boone found made him feel at home: "These guys know American jazz inside and... read more
Dee Daniels - Jazzinit
by John Stevenson, JazzReview.com
Every now and then, the art and craft of jazz gets a kick up its rear end. Put more politely, it is updated from time to time.
A small number of jazz instrumentalists and vocalists do this by planting melodic flags on altogether higher harmonic peaks. With Bebop, for example, Charlie Parker and John Birks Gillespie upended swing's sway with dizzying feats of individual improvisation; Ella Fitzgerald single-handedly transformed the role of the... read more
Paul Marinaro - Mood Ellington
by Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs
One of Chicago's premiere jazz vocalists, Paul Marinaro, released his debut album in 2013 called "Without A Song." He followed up with "One Night in Chicago" in 2015. Then, two more releases in 2022 and 2023. His popularity spread across Illinois state like wildfire, soon crossing midwestern borders and becoming known to the country as perhaps one of a handful of respected male jazz singers who are active around the country.
On this... read more
Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra - Mad Scientist Music
by Tom Haugen, Take Effect
The esteemed trombonist, composer and arranger Ben Patterson brings along a large crew for these Big Band selections that are nothing short of powerful and swinging.
The animated presence of "We're Back, Baby!" opens with Shawn Purcell's meticulous guitar and Luke Brandon's bright trumpet adding much to the flowing climate, and "The Misinformation Age" follows with Chris Ziemba's mature keys and Mike Cemprola's well timed alto sax... read more
Mike Pope - The Parts You Keep
by MICHAEL STÜRM, Jazz Podium (Germany)
Mike Pope is a musician no one in Europe has on their radar. This engaging music, based on a shared musical language, is highly dynamic and full of beautiful sounds when it comes to bassists in jazz. The American is one of many instrumentalists who primarily work as sidemen. When these musicians record an album themselves, it often holds its own against the big names. Even if Pope occasionally betrays the routine of a virtuoso studio musician,... read more
Karrin Allyson - A Kiss for Brazil
by Dorothea Gängel, Jazz'N'More (Switzerland)
4-STARS The singer Karrin Allyson, who comes from Kansas, is dedicated to Brazilian music. "A Kiss for Brasil" is already the third album dedicated to these rhythms. This time, Allyson has brought the celebrated singer, guitarist and songwriter Rosa Passos to her side as a special guest. Passos contributes two songs to the album: "O Grande Amor" and "Month of March in Salvador (Dunas)". Victor Goncalves on piano and accordion and Rafael... read more
Scott Reeves Quintet - The Alchemist
by Editor, Patch
Reeves, who has performed with the Vanguard Orchestra and Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, as well as with artists including Steve Wilson, Kenny Werner, James Williams, Rich Perry, Bill Mobley, and John Patitucci, expected to have time on his hands upon his retiring from teaching at institutions including the prestigious Juilliard School.
But when the pandemic struck just a few months later, he suddenly found himself with an... read more
Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton - Apothecary
by Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes
This daring Seattle-based piano trio explores the remarkably intimate chemistry they've built up over the past 20-plus years. Together, they reinvent standards like "On Green Dolphin Street,""Nardis," "Footprints" and Turn Out the Stars" with rare sensitivity and telepathy, underscored by a slightly subversive streak. Tad Britton's delicate, colorist's touch and rubato flair on the kit sets the tone for freewheeling extrapolations Monk's... read more
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