CD Reviews: New Orleans Flotilla, Crooner Abuse, and Hands Across the Baltic/Seine
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Various Artists: “The Passion Of Charlie Parker” (Impulse, 2017)
I’ll be honest, when I pulled this one out of the padded envelope, I thought: “It’s the answer to a musical question nobody asked.” Vocalese tributes to instrumental lions...
Joel Shapira: In Essence (2017)
The guitar, and its distant kin, the piano, are self-contained orchestras. Few other instruments possess their range in dynamics and melodic potential. If you’re going to master either, it...
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
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Louis Hayes: Serenade For Horace (Blue Note)
Blue Note Records has given a home to arguably the greatest recording artists in jazz for many decades. Like all major record labels, particularly those devoted to so-called...
A Fresher Breath of Air: Natalia M. King’s “Bluezzin ‘Til Dawn” (Challenge, 2016)
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Curtis Stigers: “One More for the Road” (Concord, 2017)
© Kevin O’Connor “What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head. What the world needs now is another Frank Sinatra,...
CD Reviews, Recent Themes, Part One: The Fabulous 80s
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Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, “Nearness” (Nonesuch, 2016)
More than twenty years ago, Duke DuBois, the legendary promotional lion for Verve and GRP records, would service gleeful public radio programmers like myself with scads of beautifully...
The Bad Plus: “It’s Hard” (Okeh, 2016)
If the arc of your career is perpetually, well, arced, is it possible to come full circle? Before you answer, consider this: Twin Cities-bred jazz trio, The Bad...
Two From Blue Note: Nels Cline (Lovers) and Kandace Springs (Soul Eyes)
A few months ago I wrote about Don Was just as he was assuming command of Blue Note Records in the wake of the death of Bruce Lundvall. At...
“Sing Me Home”, Silk Road! (Sony Masterworks, 2016)
Whether as a means to showcase his diversity, or perhaps a distraction from the occasionally stoic nature of the concert hall, cellist Yo Yo Ma founded “The Silk Road...
Matt Wilson Remembers Felicia With “Beginning of a Memory” (Palmetto, 2016)
A couple of years back, tragedy struck the family of a gifted musician. Matt Wilson’s wife Felicia passed away. They were partners in the usual sense of married couples:...
Metheny: Unity Sessions, Cuong Vu Trio
This review is a “twofer.” Technically three, if you count the two discs in The Unity Sessions. Guitarist Pat Metheny seems to be an artist who has more hat...
Dave King Trucking Company , “Surrounded By The Night” (Sunnyside, 2016)
Every iteration of every band that drummer Dave King chooses to grace has been busy. From his celebrated burst on the scene in the late 90s, he’s continued to...
Resonance Records: On a Mission
Everybody’s got a mission these days. From the apt: Religious groups, humanitarian organizations, nature conservancies, to the questionably apt: mega- corporations, carpet steam-cleaners, and scrap metal -gatherers. Everyone who...
Adam Rudegeair Quintet: The Bowie Project (Independent, 2015)
When British Pop legend David Bowie died unexpectedly this past winter, it rocked the music world, to say the least. Bowie had a fingerprint in just about every genre...
Freddy Cole: He Was the King (High Note , 2016)
Singer and pianist Freddy Cole has come full circle. One of his early recordings contained a well-penned response to what must have been a deluge of comparisons to his...
Snarky Puppy’s Family Dinner, Volume Two (Universal Music, 2016)
Of all the encouraging trends of the so-called up-and-comers of the next generation of jazz, the one I find the most heartening is the revival of the group concept....
Cyrille Aimee: “Let’s Get Lost” (Mack Avenue, 2016)
Vocalist Cyrille Aimee certainly has quite a pedigree: She was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2010 and won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Prize in 2012. She has...