Jazz
The music on David Murray’s” “Francesca” is both antic and intense; it’s played by a responsive and inventive quartet who sound like they are having considerable fun entertaining themselves.
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What seems remarkable here is the way that trumpeter Tomasz Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges, including flickers of wit, with the other members of the quartet.
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A trio of Latin-themed jazz albums that range from the best of the year to an uneven debut effort.
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Witty, varied, played warmly and arranged dexterously, avoiding the glum, the explorations on “A Second Life” should please just about every jazz fan.
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He was lucky to be so well-rewarded for doing what he loved to do, and we were always lucky to hear him.
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“Soul & Salvation” is a short album, and you’ll be sorry when it’s over. It’s hardly an essential album in Dizzy Gillespie’s long discography, but you won’t regret giving it a listen.
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How well or how poorly are we paying homage to our jazz ancestors? Some graves are worthy places of pilgrimage. Others are neglected . . . or unknown.
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The spirited restraint of the pianist’s playing — its omnipresent precision and clarity — sounds contemporary and fresh.
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In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.
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Jazz Commentary: Celebrating Bassist William Parker’s Lifetime of Achievement
It was not just networking that propelled William Parker into the front rank of bassists. He could generate such a huge and complex cascade of sound that he energized leaders from Cecil Taylor and Ivo Perelman to Zoh Amba.
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