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- What’s New for the 9th of November:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
- What’s New for the 12th of October
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
- What’s New for the 28th of September: Appalachia in books, music and more
- A Kinrown Estate story: Autumn is Upon Us
- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
- What’s New for the 17th of August: Lots of Cropredy reports and reviews, and some new jazz and Americana;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Dragon
- What’s New for the 3rd of August: A mix of Heinlein reviews; new jazz out of Vermont and a grab bag of archival reviews; Italian American food writing, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Recursive Loops
- What’s New for the 20th of July: Lots of Elizabeth Bear including The Folded Sky; tomatoes; a Hobbit film; new jazz and archival reviews; Charles Vess ballads and sagas; and an offbeat Ellen Kushner adaptation
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Commedia dell’Arte. Possibly.
- What’s New for the 6th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mama Kin
- What’s New for the 22nd of June: books about baseball, air travel most unusual, some music about baseball (and some not)
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Handfasting (A Letter to Katrina)
- What’s New for the 8th of June: kibbles and bits — lots of fairy tales, steamy anime, a Cairo comic, new jazz, an archival grab bag, and a Kitchen tale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Cats
- What’s New for the 25th of May: new and notable SFF books; Murderbot on TV, and some Star Wars prequel movies; new jazz music and some tasty archival selections; food & steelworker strikes; and a novel Tarot deck
- What’s New for the 11th of May: Special Jack Zipes edition on fairy tales; an obsure Tam Lin film treatment; songs that tell stories; new jazz, Danish fiddle tunes, Norwegian women’s vocal music; Russian and Eastern European food and cooking, and more
- What’s New for the 27th of April: Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw’s fiction and Flytrap zine; Tea with Jane Austen; a fine French fairy tale film; some new jazz and archival francophone music reviews; and the Stones!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
Tag Archives: Jazz music
Roger Glenn’s My Latin Heart, and Miguel Zenón Quartet’s Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
Latin flavored jazz goes with warm weather, right? Here are two superb new releases to keep you warm as the season turns. So how come I’ve never heard of Roger Glenn until now? Possibly because, although he’s been playing with … Continue reading
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John Taylor’s Tramonto, and Liv Andrea Hauge Trio’s Døgnville
Some days I’d be happy listening to nothing but piano trios. Here are two recent releases that satisfy that urge. From the ECM vaults comes this splendid live recording by the late UK pianist John Taylor’s trio with Americans Marc … Continue reading
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Dino Saluzzi’s El Viejo Caminante
By sheer coincidence, I’ve recently been obsessively listening to Miles Davis’s 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come, in particular the title track. The story of how this lilting waltz in an uncommon key, from Disney’s 1937 Snow White and … Continue reading
Fred Hersch’s The Surrounding Green
There are piano trios, and then there are piano trios. As they say. And this is one of the latter. This program finds three of the best playing a mix of originals and works from the jazz canon with deep … Continue reading
Tom Gershwin’s Wellspring
Vermont trumpeter and composer Tom Gershwin leads a highly sympathetic quintet on the absolutely beautiful album Wellspring. The musicians create such a rich tapestry of sound that at times they sound like a much larger ensemble. Gershwin leads on his … Continue reading
Noah Haidu’s Standards III, and John Abercrombie & Andy LaVerne’s Timeline
Here a couple of recent jazz releases of mostly standards — one all new, the other a re-release of a classic. Pianist Noah Haidu keeps going from strength to strength. For the third entry in his fabulous Standards series he … Continue reading
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Duende Libre’s Invocation
I’m a huge fan of Duende Libre’s 2017 self-titled debut album, and the Seattle trio’s 2018 follow-up Drift so of course I’m all over their latest, Invocation. It’s a superb album of Latin influenced modern piano trio jazz. Duende Libre’s … Continue reading
Michael Kaeshammer’s Tell You How I Feel, and No Strings Attached
Christopher White wrote this review. Michael Kaeshammer (pronounced case-hammer) is a young … 25 or so … German-Canadian piano player with what might be dubbed post-neo-retro trad jazz sensibilities. And exceptionally prodigious chops. A child prodigy, he studied classical piano … Continue reading
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Vesna Pisarović’s Poravna
Croatian singer Vesna Pisarović has come a long way since her song “Everything I Want” placed 11th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She still sings pop music in concert, and the music on her nine pop albums has been … Continue reading
Simon Linnert Trio’s Sayeh, Joe Magnarelli’s Concord, and Tony Miceli’s Nico’s Dream
I’m getting so much enjoyment out of this record. Part of it is that I’m going through a piano trio phase, but it’s also just an excellent album. Danish former piano prodigy Linnert turns in his first trio recording with … Continue reading
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