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Paul Ricci - The Path
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
5 STARS
Paul Ricci's Path: A 29-Year Journey Toward a Borderless Jazz
It took 29 years, 17 collaborators, and a lifetime of travel for composer and guitarist Paul Ricci to complete Path. In an era of instant releases and compressed creative cycles, this jazz-fusion album arrives as a quiet rebuke to speed, an argument for patience, accumulation, and the slow maturation of ideas across cultures and continents.
The project... read more
ZurHub - Countryside Motorways
by Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs
A tribal drum introduction opens the first tune on this album. The tune is called "Social Trust" and features a flute solo by Mattan Klein. This is followed by a guitar solo from Argentinian, Ezequiel Hezi Jait, until the drums of Dani Benedikt take over to present several bars of his own creativity. The group, ZurHub, was formed in 2017. It is a quintet of musicians based in Tel Aviv and New York. Their musical concept embraces the rhythms... read more
Cuong Vu - Leaps of Faith
by Phillip McNally, Cadence
Trumpeter Cuong Vu's 4-tet appears to be bottom-heavy too, what with two electric bassists. And Takeishi and Bergman are really playing electric too; not the kind of bass work that tries to sound wooden through the amp. But Leaps of Faith is not the funk affair that it might make it seem. there are lost of electronics used on this live recording, on all four instruments, and every bit of it is remarkably musical and tasteful. There is never... read more
Mimi Fox Organ Trio - One for Wes
by Cedric Hendrix, Cirdec Songs
It's interesting that Mimi Fox is the band's guitarist, yet she declares the album an organ trio. Particularly since the album is dedicated to the efforts of jazz guitar legend Wes Montgomery. Then again, Wes was known for making classic albums with organist Jimmy Smith. Hence, we arrive at the album's primary focus. With Brian Ho handling the organ duties and Lorca Hart's drums, One for Wes is smooth, jazzy, and cool as the other side of the... read more
Harvie S - Bright Dawn
by Pierre Giroux, The New York City Jazz Record
Few bassists in modern jazz speak with the authority, warmth and emotional candor that Harvie S does. On Bright Dawn, he provides a beautifully-measured
reminder of why he remains one of the instrument's most eloquent modern voices. This isn't merely a leader date but a carefully-curated ensemble statement,
with the bassist and his drummer Matt Wilson as its only constants. Guitarist Peter Bernstein and pianist/Fender Rhodes player Miki Hayama... read more
Affinity Trio - New Outlook
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move
5-STARS Eric Jacobson's "New Outlook": A Trumpeter's Dialogue Between Past and Present.
When the playing of a trumpeter truly speaks, it awakens an instinct. For me, that means stopping the record at hand and reaching for the early Miles Davis albums, a private ritual that has nothing ceremonial about it, but everything to do with necessity. It's a way of measuring not imitation, but spirit: does the horn carry that urgency, that... read more
Jared Hall - Seen on the Scene
by Paul Rauch, All About Jazz
4-STARS In many ways the title Seen on the Scene encapsulates trumpeter Jared Hall's story leading up to the studio session in 2018 which resulted in this, his sophomore release. The native of Spokane, Washington, arrived in Seattle in 2017 after completing studies with mercurial trumpet ace Brian Lynch and, almost immediately, scored a residency at Tula's, the city's legendary jazz spot. Sporting new compositions and a new recording on... read more
John Stowell / Michael Zilber - Basement Blues
by Mike Joyce, JazzTimes
Following this West Coast ensemble's two widely acclaimed recordings, Shot Through With Beauty and Live Beauty, Basement Blues may seem like a departure, in tone and tack. But as "Stowell in Heart" and other highlights here warmly illustrate, Basement Blues is similarly riddled with charms, to say nothing of its soulful allure and conversational postbop gambits.
A bit of good cheer, too, enlivens this... read more
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