Michael Ullman
The trio shares Cecil Taylor’s love of rational freedom and adventure, but it doesn’t try to reproduce the pianist’s rip-roaring intensity.
As serious a musician as he is, and as virtuosic as he can be, the naturally extroverted Christian McBride knows how to entertain, a talent generously evident in this live performance.
I find Visions of Your Other exciting. It is beautifully recorded: these are four musicians who care about their sound.
One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive.
A judicious mix of jazz classics, standards, and Corea compositions, Live is a blast.
There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.
There’s a contrast here, an understandable impatience with current events placed alongside belief in MLK’s vision of the long arc of the moral universe. Neither cancels the other.
On this disc, trumpeter, singer, and composer Sarah Wilson serves up music that is warm, a little funny at times, and very well played in an unassuming manner.
To my ears, veteran guitarist John McLaughlin is both a jazz and a rock player, and more besides.
Long Tall Sunshine pulls off a delightful paradox: it combines in-your-face vigor with subtlety, probing free improvisations with appealing compositions.
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