Jazz
A trio of Latin-themed jazz albums that range from the best of the year to an uneven debut effort.
Witty, varied, played warmly and arranged dexterously, avoiding the glum, the explorations on “A Second Life” should please just about every jazz fan.
“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.
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.
The spirited restraint of the pianist’s playing — its omnipresent precision and clarity — sounds contemporary and fresh.
In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.
Saxophonist Gregory Groover Jr, was not initially drawn to spirituals. In fact, as a young person, he found them frightening.
Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.
Zev Feldman is becoming one of the great sleuth-producers of our time, and his name is becoming a marker of quality.
Jazz Remembrance: David Sanborn, Way Beyond Smooth
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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