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Peter Epstein and Idée Fixe - Abstract Realism
by Stef Gijssels, Freejazz Blog
As a leader, saxophonist Peter Epstein released three modern jazz CDs, one Portuguese CD, a solo sax record with some classical music and some improvisations, a fantastic world jazz album ("Lingua Franca"), and all this in a quite irregular time span, of which most ten years ago and not much lately.
He is a musician with broad technical skills, open to many genres, and that seems to have been his problem in creating a specific profile.... read more
Mark Colby - Reflections
by Paul Abella, Chicago Jazz Magazine
Mark Colby has come out with a new disc, Reflections, on Origin Records. Colby joins a long list of Chicago's top-notch musicians making the move to that label, and like most of Origin's other releases, this one is flat-out fantastic. I'm beginning to think that John and Chad, the masterminds of that label, have no idea how to put out a bad record.
As a matter of fact, you just know that this is going to be a great album from the... read more
Western Jazz Collective - Dark Journey: The Music of Andrew Rathbun
by Michael van Gee, Jazz'N'More (Switzerland)
The Western Jazz Collective is a renowned ensemble based at the School of Music at Western Michigan University. It consists of highly dedicated educators who are also outstanding musicians. The collective consists of Greg Jasperse, Scott Cowan, Andrew Rathbun, Matt Landon, Matthew Fries, John Hébert, and Keith Hall. They are joined by guest Kevin "Bujo" Jones.
The album, subtitled "The Music of Andrew Rathbun," presents nine modern and... read more
Hal Galper Trio - Airegin Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
Hal Galper's Airgen Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the "elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper into the music than seems possible, taking a great many standards and unleashing them,... read more
Eric Jacobson - Discover
by Nicholas F. Mondello, All About Jazz
4-STARS With Discover, Milwaukee-based trumpeter and jazz educator Eric Jacobson and team take us on an aural time trip back to the days when album covers were iconically black and white or monochrome and the contents within were drenched in blue-hued Hard Bop. This is a fine effort with that precise presentation.
"New Combinations," which launches the date, is anything but new and sets the trajectory. One of four Jacobson... read more
Sarah Partridge - I Never Thought I'd Be Here
by Rotcod Zzaj, Improvijazzation
It doesn't always happen, but this time, the promoter got the keyword right, when it was declared that Sarah's jazz vocal work is "dazzling"... she leads a high-energy, high-talent crew of players (you can view them on the album page at Origin) on this ten-song bundle of energy... songs like the opener, "Perspective" (from one of her earlier albums, I believe), establishes her as one of the most talented jazz vocalists on the scene today! The... read more
Francis Coletta | Jonas Tauber - Port Said Street
by John Sunier, Audiophile Audition
Port Sa�d Street is in Marseilles, France, and is the title of one of the ten tunes here, composed in this case by guitarist Coletta. The Godin electroacoustic guitar is played by performers looking for an amplified nylon string guitar that can be used both live and in the studio - it has a USB output. The guitar's maple top is closer to a hardbody electric guitar than a typical acoustic guitar. I once recorded a guitar and cello duo, and the... read more
Deep Blue Organ Trio - Folk Music
by Paul Christopher Dowd, All About Jazz
One casualty of jazz' precipitous decline in popularity since the '70s has been the ever- diminishing number of organ trios, once a staple of African-American urban communities. On their third and latest release, Folk Music, Deep Blue Organ Trio remain committed to continuing the thread of the organ trio as a vital part of the black community and on a larger scale, restoring jazz as an integral extension of the African-American experience.... read more
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