Michael Ullman
I find Visions of Your Other exciting. It is beautifully recorded: these are four musicians who care about their sound.
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One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive.
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A judicious mix of jazz classics, standards, and Corea compositions, Live is a blast.
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There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.
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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.
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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.
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To my ears, veteran guitarist John McLaughlin is both a jazz and a rock player, and more besides.
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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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Vocalist Anaïs Reno and Mark Masters and his big band supply compelling homages to the brilliance of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
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Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp’s duets will draw in and fascinate listeners who are open to intelligent, virtuosic, and intimate improvisations, simultaneously logical and free.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else