Speaking In Tongues album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking In Tongues John Hadfield wrote “Blood Moon” in shocked response to learning that, in 1504, during his fourth transatlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus had used his knowledge of an upcoming Blood Moon eclipse to manipulate reluctant indigenous Jamaicans into granting him food […]
Camera Obscura album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura “I’ve been wanting to do a project like this for decades,” Amherst-based Brazilian composer and multi-reedist Felipe Salles writes of Camera Obscura. The album combines jazz and classical quartets in a program of original music inspired by the physical phenomenon of the same […]
The Cosmic Piano album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano Pianist Matthew Shipp has a mathematical side: The Multiplication Table (hatOLOGY, 1998) and The Piano Equation (Tao Forms, 2020) hint at this. He has a metabolic side: DNA (Thirsty Ear, 1999) and Right Hemisphere (Rogueart, 2008). And he has a solar system […]
The Surrounding Green album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Fred Hersch‘s The Surrounding Green , his third release for ECM Records, is a testament to the art of the piano trio, combining lyrical introspection with sophisticated interplay. Recorded in May 2024 at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo under Manfred Eicher’s […]
The Surrounding Green album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green In a world where turmoil arrives almost instantly via notifications on our devices, a ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Fred Hersch album feels like sanctuaryan invitation to slow down and listen deeply. The Surrounding Green, his third release for ECM, once again finds the pianist […]
Landscape album review @ All About Jazz
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About Ghosts album review @ All About Jazz
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Live At The Jazz Standard album review @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title=”” title=””>Mingus Big Band held forth on most Monday evenings. Sadly, the club succumbed in 2021 to the economic pain caused by the pandemic. In memorium, we now have a robustly recorded live set from 2014 by the George Colligan multi-instrumentalistb.1969 ” data-original-title=”” title=””>George Colligan trio. It is an energized, special moment and a […]
Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! album review @ All About Jazz
A former newspaper writer / editor who has been writing about jazz for more than thirty-five years. Senior ContributorSince 1997Albuquerque, NM Preferred album format:CD/Vinyl MY ARTICLES | ALBUM REVIEWS | PROFILE PAGE Total published articles:2,966 Contact Me Follow Me Musical Preferences Big BandStraight-ahead (Bop, Hard bop, Cool) Source link
Keepers of the Eastern Door album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Chris Cheek leads a beautifully played, richly melodic and creatively curated set of performances, which split the difference between enchantment and fun. Cheek and his bandmates Bill Frisell guitar, electricb.1951 ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Bill Frisell on guitar, ” data-original-title=”” […]