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Richard Sussman - Continuum
by Joe Ross, CD Insight
Continuum, the new release on Origin Records from The Richard Sussman Quintet is now available. Richard Sussman is a pianist, composer, music technologist, and professor of jazz composition at Manhattan School of Music in New York City (since 1986). In that capacity, Sussman gives private lessons, teaches, develops jazz arranging class curriculum, and manages all aspects of the electronic music technology/MIDI recording studios for the jazz... read more
Josh Nelson - Exploring Mars
by Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm
Pianist Nelson's ode to the Red Planet, inspired by science, stories and space travel. A deft mix of solo, small & large ensemble, instrumental and vocal pieces. For an album with a (relatively) small sound, it's awfully damn... read more
Chris Walden Big Band - Full-On!
by Scott Yanow, Los Angeles Jazz Scene
While Chris Walden has arranged and composed music for films, television shows and other artists' records, he is most significant to jazz as the leader of his own big band. Full-On is his sixth CD as a leader and fifth since 2005.
Full-On is an exciting album from start to finish. Walden contributed all of the arrangements, wrote five of the 12 selections, and produced the diverse but consistent set. Six different singers are... read more
Aaron Immanuel Wright - Eleven Daughters
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
Wander into the parking lot of a high school marching band field tournament, through a labyrinth school buses and picnic tables, into throngs of young musicians?teenagers in small packs cruising on foot, gossiping, flirting, maybe throwing a football around as a cold November dusk settles in?and there always seems to be a backdrop of percussion, impromptu practice sessions, the marimbas and the vibraphones ringing out. It's a sound that carries... read more
Chad McCullough Bram Weijters - Urban Nightingale
by Dave Sumner, Bird Is The Worm Jazz Blog
Following on the success of their 2011 collaboration Imaginary Sketches, trumpeter Chad McCullough and pianist Bram Weijters display with their latest release Urban Nightingale that they are truly a perfect match creatively.
Despite originating from opposite ends of the globe, the two have a symbiotic connection from both a perspective of group interplay and also personal voicing. Illustrated right from the first notes of... read more
Florian Hoefner - Luminosity
by S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!
About a year and a half ago, German-born pianist/composer Florian Hoefner did what few up-and-coming jazz musicians would dare to do, and that was to pull out of the bustling scene of New Your City to relocate to a far-away place that shared an ocean but little else with his former home. But from the relative solitude of St. John's, Newfoundland, Hoefner found the right environment to raise his game, and for his third album Luminosity (released... read more
Karrin Allyson - A Kiss for Brazil
by Stephen Graham, Marlbank (UK)
Best of 2024 A dynamic year so far for jazz vocals - and there's something inside so strong as the feeling intensifies still more liltingly on A Kiss for Brazil. Featuring the great singer from Bahia, Rosa Passos (Amorosa, 2004 is her classic) - there are few singers on the planet who can take a note for a walk like US singer Karrin Allyson.
The A Kiss for Brazil version of Tom Jobim's 'Wave' covered so often since Equinox by Sergio... read more
Jonas Tauber - Storm Walking Singing
by Joshua Kline, Double Bassist
Recorded before a live audience at Cafe 26 in Switzerland, Storm Walking Singing comprises mainly original improvised solo pieces performed by bassist Jonas Tauber. Such is the level of intensity and conviction of Tauber's playing that one has to remind oneself that this is just one man and his double bass. His ambitious approach to the instrument compounds the impression that there is an ensemble rather than a soloist at play.
Particularily... read more
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