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Florian Hoefner - Coldwater Stories
by Mel Mintner, Musically Speaking
German-born pianist Florian Hoefner enjoys challenging himself, and the evidence indicates that he is up to a good challenge. On Luminosity, his excellent quartet recording, for example, he required one composition to operate within the space of an octave. On Coldwater (Origin Records) - his latest and first solo release - he has set himself quite a different obstacle, as he explains in the liner notes: "Many of the pieces on this album consist... read more
Les DeMerle - Comin' Home Baby
by Chris Spector, Midwest Review
The great thing about not being a hipster is that I can freely admit I like this record and this band. Here's a solid set without pretension where a piano trio with a vocalist is kicking out the jams on chestnuts on a cruise ship for people that would rather gorge themselves at the midnight buffet than dig the solid jazz being laid down. Certainly not the environment for breaking down walls and making statements, DeMerle and company's prime... read more
Richard Cole - Inner Mission
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Excellent music can come from construction and deconstruction equally. That seems to be the main point to be proven by saxophonist Richard Cole's Inner Mission. A number of original numbers build from the ground up here, forming a complex sound from primary elements in combination with co-writer and pianist Bill Anschell. At the same time, classic pieces are deconstructed, taken apart by the riff or the note to barely recognizable parts... read more
Sarah Partridge - Bright Lights and Promises: Redefining Janis Ian
by Robert Rusch, Cadence
SARAH PARTRIDGE's BRIGHT LIGHTS & PROMISES [Origin Records 82732] is subtitled Redefining Janis Ian. Ian made her mark early in her career as a teenager in the mid 1960s. By the mid-1970s she was on the map with her anthem "At Seventeen", a cutting commentary on the standards of beauty and adolescent cruelty (and this was pre-social media!). Recorded 8/18&19/16, the 13 Ian tunes [65:12] here are handled well by Partridge and cohorts [Allen... read more
Benjamin Boone | Philip Levine - The Poetry of Jazz, Vol. 2
by Bradley Bambarger, Downbeat
The first release from the collaboration of saxophonist Benjamin Boone and Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Philip Levine struck an unexpected chord: The album placed No. 3 in last year's DownBeat Readers Poll. The Poetry Of Jazz, Volume Two was recorded at the same sessions that yielded the initial disc, held the year before the jazz-loving poet's death at age 87.
While the first album included Levine's poems about such jazz figures as Sonny... read more
John Bishop - Antwerp
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Drummer John Bishop forms a trio with Bram Weijters/p and Piet Verbist/b for a mix of originals and some jazz covers. The leader shows crisp sticks on boppers like "Ruchsichtslos" and the dramatic modal "Bull" which give Weijters plenty of room to move. Verbist digs in like a man with a pick ax on
'The Same Melody" and links arms with Bishop on a souped up "For Less Than Nothing". Bishops' brushes assuage the lyrical "Pointing At The Moon"... read more
Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters - Abstract Quantities
by Claude Loxhay, JazzHalo (Belgium)
Après "Imaginary Sketches" de 2011 et "Urban Nightingale" de 2012, voici le troisième album du quartet de Bram Weijters et Chad McCullough. On avait découvert le pianiste anversois au sein de Hamster Axis, on l'avait aussi entendu avec le Tuesday Night Orchestra, le quartet de Marjan Van Rompay, le quintet de Koen Nijs, le Misstriohso de Marie-Anne Standaert et au sein de Zygomatik de Piet Verbist.
Quant au trompettiste américain, il... read more
Eddie Allen and PUSH - The Rhythm
by Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
Some album titles function as little more than labels. Others act as keys, unlocking the listener's experience almost immediately. This one belongs firmly in the latter category. From the opening moments, the music aligns so closely with its name that it feels less like a concept than a lived reality, sound shaped by memory, movement, and accumulated experience. That coherence is hardly accidental. The artist behind this project is among the... read more
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