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Jakob Bro’s Streams

Streams by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s trio, is a beautifully flowing project featuring the young American bassist Thomas Morgan and the veteran drummer Joey Baron on the skins, replacing Jon Christensen, who played on Bro’s previous trio outing Gefion. Even … Continue reading

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Peter Erskine Trio’s As It Was

This wonderful set reprises the rich legacy of the Peter Erskine Trio’s four albums for ECM between 1993 and 1999. It’s four hours of music that covers nearly all the bases of contemporary piano trio possibilities, from sublime ballads and … Continue reading

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Mats Eilertsen’s Rubicon

The tune “March” on Mats Eilertsen’s Rubicon is one of the most delicious bits of atmospheric noir jazz I’ve heard in some time. It’s unexpected coming from this Norwegian bassist’s septet, on an album that draws on various styles and … Continue reading

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Nils Økland Band’s Kjølvatn

Kjølvatn is an acoustic tradition-based project by Norwegian hardanger fiddler Nils Økland. His most recent release on ECM was by his psychedelic, distortion-drenched drone-rock band Lumen Drones. In contrast, Kjølvatn sounds like ancient music, sometimes drawn from folk sources and … Continue reading

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Various Artists’ American Pop: An Audio History

Brendan Foreman penned this review. American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957, Allen Lowe’s amazing examination of the origins and nature of American popular music. To accomplish such a daunting task, Lowe sifted through his obviously … Continue reading

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Miroslav Vitous’s Music of Weather Report

So this is kind of a big deal in the jazz world. Bassist Miroslav Vitous is once again revisiting the ensemble for which he is probably best known, the 1970s progressive jazz-rock fusion group Weather Report, which he co-founded with … Continue reading

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Wolfert Brederode Trio’s Black Ice

Two things stand out on Black Ice, the debut disc from the Wolfert Brederode Trio: The Dutch pianist’s strong melodic sense and the ease of interplay among the musicians, particularly Brederode and Icelandic bassist Gulli Gudmondsson. No surprise the latter, … Continue reading

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Victor Prieto’s The Three Voices

Victor Prieto was born in the town of Ourense in Galicia, an ancient Celtic homeland in Spain. But he grew up partially in Venezuela and has lived in New York for the past 20 years. His mother insisted that he … Continue reading

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Eivind Austad Trio’s Moving

The Eivind Austad Trio has spent the past 15 years working out on the Norwegian jazz scene, particularly in Bergen, which is apparently Norway’s jazz hotbed. (Good to know, should I ever make it to my ancestral homeland!) Their debut … Continue reading

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Various artists’ Hungarian Noir, A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday

If you’re familiar with the song “Gloomy Sunday” it’s probably from Billie Holiday’s version of it, which popularized it in the U.S. in 1941. The BBC banned that record from the airwaves because its mood was deemed too somber for … Continue reading

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