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Michael Ullman

Jazz Concert Review: The Laszlo Gardony Trio at the Berklee College of Music

The smallish Friend Recital Hall was an ideal setting for pianist Laszlo Gardony to impose his engaging personality, as well as his musical versatility and power.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Close Connection, John Lockwood, Laszlo Gardony, Yoron Israel

Jazz Album Review: Jussi Reijonen’s “Three Seconds/ Kolme Toista” — “One Hell of a Journey”

The music comes out of an extended personal crisis; the compositions found here are a testament to a musician regaining his voice.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Challenge Records, Jason Palmer, Jussi Reijonen, Michael Ullman, Three Seconds/ Kolme Toista

Jazz Album Review: Pianist Jason Yeager’s “Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite” — So It Goes

The advantage to listening to the recorded Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite is that on disc pianist Jason Yeager writes beautifully for septet: the textures he evokes in his arrangements are curiously varied and invariably moving.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Jason Yeager, Michael Ullman, Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite

Jazz Album Review: The Vince Guaraldi Trio — “Peanuts” and Beyond

Vince Guaraldi isn’t the heaviest of jazz pianists: he played at a time when McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans were omnipresent. But his tunes, his gently humanist approach to music, meant that he reached listeners that others couldn’t or didn’t.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown’s Holiday Hits, Impressions of Black Orpheus Deluxe Edition, Michael Ullman, Peanuts, Vince Guaraldi Trio

Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “Bordeaux Concert” — A Varied Masterpiece

Given Keith Jarrett’s current disability, this new ECM recording is an unexpected gift to his fans.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bordeaux Concert, ECM, Keith Jarrett, Michael Ullman

Jazz Album Review: Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch’s Winning “The Song Is You” — Suffused With Tact and Grace

The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: ECM, Enrico Rava, Fred Hersch, Michael Ullman, The Song is You

Jazz Album Review: “Hampton Hawes Four!” — Evidence of a Remarkable Talent

Four! is one of Hampton Hawes’ most satisfying sessions, for the variety of the repertoire and the quality of the performances.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Barney Kessel, Craft lp in association with Contemporary Records, Hampton Hawes, Hampton Hawes Four!, Michael Ullman, Red Mitchell, Shelly Manne

Jazz Album Review: Steve Davis’s “Bluesthetic” — Swinging Oh-So Comfortably

Trombonist Steve Davis says he never strays very far from the blues, and he proves it with this fine album.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bluesthetic, Christian McBride, Geoff Keezer, Peter Bernstein, Smoke Sessions, Steve Davis, Willie Jones

Jazz Album Review: Drummer Tony Williams’s “Play or Die” — Electrifying Eclecticism

Play or Die brilliantly showcases what Miles Davis heard in Tony Williams’ playing: variety of sound within a restricted framework.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Herbie Hancock, M.I.G Music, Michael Ullman, Miles-Davis, Play or Die, Tony Williams

Jazz Album Review: “Charles Mingus Trio” — One Kind of Masterpiece

Even without the new takes, this Rhino reissue would be welcome: Mingus Three is to my mind one of the great trio albums.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus Trio with Hampton Hawes and Dannie Richmond, Dannie Richmond, Hampton Hawes

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