Jazz
A particular guttural sequence of phrases from accordionist Ted Reichman suggested a musical cadence, and I felt myself respond with the jazz fan’s involuntary noise of appreciation: “Unh!”
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The planned variety of sounds and rhythms is the adroit work of a composer dedicated to both freedom and his own version of continuity.
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Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and historian of early jazz and roots music who doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from jazz’s gatekeepers.
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The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.
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Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
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The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
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A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental.
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I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.
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If any of these songs get some airplay and serve as gateway drugs to the glories of the Count Basie band, I’m all for it.
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Jazz Commentary: John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” Turns 60 — A Homage
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane’s magisterial album “A Love Supreme,” which has meant so much to so many.
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