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Mattias Svensson - Embrace
by Editor, Modern Drummer
Bassist Mattias Svensson has assembled a very good international trio of pianist Bill Mays and drummer Morten Lund for an enchanting set of music. Mays is a veteran of the American jazz scene. Lund is a Danish drummer who is no newcomer to the jazz scene. Svensson is a Swedish bassist who has established a nice resume'. Together they create a nice blend of European and American jazz that doesn't lean in either direction too much, and this is... read more
Richard Sussman - Live at Sweet Rhythm
by Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes
Much of the jazz art form in contained in obscure artifacts preserved, against all odds, from the clutches of oblivion. That is the story behind this album, well told in Neil Tesser's liner notes. It goes something like this: In 1978, pianist-composer Richard Sussman made an LP called 'Free Fall' on Inner City. It had an afterlife as a kind of underground classic. Susman's intriguing compositions clearly provoked and inspired trumpeter Tom... read more
Dawn Clement - Tandem
by Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes
Dawn Clement, extroverted pianist and introverted vocalist, has been embedded in the Seattle jazz scene for 20 years. Tandem, her fifth recording as a leader, is the kind of necessarily discontinuous project that often doesn't work as an album. Clement plays nine duets with five very different musicians, all based in Seattle except A-list New York drummer Matt Wilson. The tunes are also diverse: old standards, originals, a Monk, a... read more
John McLean / Clark Sommers Band - Parts Unknown
by Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz
This inventive Chicago Quartet finds Kurt Elling's long time backing team comprised of guitarist John McLean and bassist Clark Sommers pushing into original sonic adventures with fresh modern twists. The band's debut outing for Origin Records also features drummer Xavier Breaker and vibes veteran Joe Locke whose tone and style accompanies and interacts perfectly with John McLean's subtle but poignant Guitar lines.
Locke's modernistic "Blondie... read more
Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott - East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
by Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews
If you're in love with smokin' hot trumpets, you'll find this release from Ray and Thomas to be very much to your liking... the best way to get acquainted with these high-energy and high-talent players is to SEE them.
Personally, I fell in love with this June, 2023 album immediately... a variety of styles in the songs they chose, and penetrating energy from the very first note to the last bar.... read more
Brittany Anjou - Enamigo Reciprokataj
by Alex Dutilh, France Musiques
The first major album of the young New York pianist and composer Brittany Anjou, is a suite in five parts composed around esperanto, the international "built" language.
As for the English title of Brittany Anjou's album, "Reciprocal Love", which becomes "Enamiĝo Reciprokataj" (pronounced En-äh-mee-joh Reh-sih-pro-kah-tye ), the same goes for for the traditional language of jazz piano. She likes to translate it into something very... read more
John Moulder - Bifrost
by Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
At the beginning of Bifrost, the sound from John Moulder and his half-American, half-Norwegian quintet is fairly exploratory, ambient. By the end of that first title track, though, the sound has developed into full electric guitar mania. Moulder has his way with his guitar, to say the least. Quickly going into the next piece, though, Moulder and the band morph into an early morning, introspective sound. It may sound an odd comparison, but from... read more
Chris Walden Big Band - Full-On!
by Mark S Tucker, AcousticMusic.com
You can't blame Chris Walden for taking seven years to issue another CD. He's so in demand that the guy barely has time to change socks before flying off to front another gig, score a movie, contribute tracks to a TV series, or arrange for any of a panoply of big names: Paul Anka, Christopher Cross, Diana Krall, Michael Buble, Michael Bolton, Nancy Wilson, etc. With Full On!, the delayed follow-up to 2007's Kurt Marti Suite... read more
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