Michael Ullman
This doesn’t sound like any other quartet I know.
These jazz albums are splendid representations of the first full decade of LPs and of stereo recording as well.
Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman’s work is customarily full of subtle surprises, akimbo with shifts and side-trips. This new recording, with a sextet, is no exception.
This is a trio of superb songsters, whose individual lyricisms support each other
The intent of this fine album to dramatize the enduring legacy of Martin Luther King: no justice, no peace.
A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.
Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
The Regattabar, located in the Charles Hotel, re-opened after being shuttered for three years following the Covid epidemic.
Listening to the superb “El Arte Del Bolero, Volume Two,” I feel that these are two masters who, while recalling their various ancestries, are talking to me.
These witnesses to history are no longer playing with the fire of their youth, but they exude the confidence, warmth, and sure instincts of veterans.
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