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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: Jazz music
Ivan Farmakovskiy’s Epic Power
Ivan Farmakovskiy at age 52 is one of the premier jazz pianists in Russia. Following formal schooling he played in a number of Russian and Western ensembles, won the 1994 bi-annual Russia Jazz Competition, the biggest contest for young Russian … Continue reading
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen’s Jaywalkin’
When the bass player stands out on a record featuring Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson and French violinist Stephane Grappelli, you know that bassist is something special. That was the case with my first exposure to the playing of the legendary … Continue reading
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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