Michael Ullman
The music this band produced was famously challenging: it was also often surprisingly beautiful.
Read MoreLost amid a flood of new music in the early ’70s, the three lps under review here never received their due.
Read MoreThe clarity and focus of Ron Carter’s bass is exemplary here, as is the balance with Richard Galliano’s accordion.
Read MoreKeith Jarrett has said that he thinks there is room for C.P.E. Bach recordings on a modern piano. He proves himself right with these 1994 recordings.
Read MoreThelonious Monk can sound like someone skipping (or even tripping) — and yet the swing is there.
Read MoreThese pieces integrate the various, varied sounds James Shipp and Nadje Noordhuis produce into something rhythmically as well as melodically exciting and coherent.
Read MoreThe trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.
Read MoreI wonder why this fine session was withheld for 49 years. It might be the bitter-sounding texts, or the very fact of vocals in a jazz session.
Read MoreAs usual with Craft Recordings reissues, these lps are impeccably produced: the silence of the recording before the music starts is almost startling, but it’s the clear sound of what follows that is most impressive.
Read MoreThe album seems to me to be about spotlighting the ensemble’s sound rather than the virtuoso displays of its leader.
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