Jazz
September releases from Kris Davis and James Brandon Lewis are sure to be among the best jazz albums of the year.
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The arrangements seem to emerge organically from the structure and feel of the compositions and harmonies, like leaves unfolding from the stem of an exotic plant.
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Three re-issued albums reinforce the claim that jazz recordings hit their peak from 1956 to 1964.
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System 6 is an adventurous contemporary ensemble whose music will appeal to lovers of the free jazz movement of the ’60s.
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Sunday arguably offered the jazz festival’s most impressive lineup. The star of the day turned out to be singer Samara Joy.
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Taking both of these new releases together should satisfy the ‘bones jones of just about any jazz fan.
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The music this band produced was famously challenging: it was also often surprisingly beautiful.
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Tony Bennett was not only a singular artist. He was, by all accounts, a mensch: an early supporter of the civil rights struggle and participant in innumerable benefits, he was a generous mentor.
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Lost amid a flood of new music in the early ’70s, the three lps under review here never received their due.
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“Time Flies” offers approximately two hours of outstanding jazz, created by true masters with no other agenda than to play their asses off with the tape rolling.
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