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Tag Archives: Jazz music
Wes Montgomery’s One Night In Indy
Just when you think there can’t possibly be any more undiscovered recordings of Wes Montgomery, here comes Resonance Records with yet another one. And One Night In Indy is a truly great record for jazz fans and Montgomery fans – … Continue reading
John Abercrombie’s The First Quartet
American jazz guitarist John Abercrombie has spent most of his 40-plus-year career playing various styles of contemporary jazz with some of the best-known musicians around. After attending the Berklee College of Music and playing in Boston, he moved to New … Continue reading
Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella’s Wild Dance
“Wild” doesn’t necessarily mean fast or crazed, as Italian trumpeter and bandleader Enrico Rava and his four companions demonstrate on Wild Dance. The bulk of the pieces on this date are slow to medium tempo, modal or modernist excursions into … Continue reading
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Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Boy Named Charlie Brown
A half-century ago, the Los Angeles-based jazz label Fantasy released an album that was essentially the soundtrack to a film that was never shown. It came out in a beautiful, full-color, double-gatefold jacket and included lots of additional color artwork … Continue reading
The New Mastersounds’ Made For Pleasure
The New Mastersounds is a funk and soul-jazz band that came out of the northern English city of Leeds in the mid-1990s. Made For Pleasure is their 10th album, but the first time I’ve heard about them was when a … Continue reading
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Terry Adams’s Talk Thelonious
I’ve been a casual fan of NRBQ since about 1992, when I happened to see them when Richard Thompson opened for them. I remember three things about them: 1) Their guitarist Al Anderson was fantastic. 2) Their pianist Terry Anderson … Continue reading
Art Pepper’s Live at Fat Tuesdays
You don’t hear that much Art Pepper these days, even if you listen to a lot of jazz, as I do. When he does crop up it’s usually his 1950s work, when he was renowned for his smooth tone and … Continue reading
Anat Cohen’s Luminosa
Anat Cohen’s Luminosa is one of the most talked-about jazz releases of the year and is my favorite disc of 2015. I only discovered the New York-based, Israeli-born reed player with her 2012 release Claroscuro but she’s been recording since … Continue reading
Kari Ikonen Trio’s Beauteous Tales and Offbeat Stories
I was fascinated by the Kari Ikonen Trio based on its contribution to Ozella’s 2014 compilation The Magic & the Mystery of the Piano Trio, and eagerly anticipated this year’s release of the trio’s second Ozella date. Beauteous Tales and … Continue reading
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Bill Evans’ The Complete Fantasy Recordings
Bill Evans recorded something like 50 albums as a leader between the 1950s and his untimely death at age 51 in 1980. He’s best known for his late-1950s and early-1960s recordings, particularly the albums taken from his legendary live sets … Continue reading