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Jazz Album Review: Guitarist John Scofield — Quality Time with “Uncle John’s Band”

October 22, 2023
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A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.

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Concert Review: Bill Frisell at the Groton Hill Music Center — Creating a World

October 22, 2023
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Bill Frisell fans were blessed to hear the Denver-bred, Berklee-schooled guitar savant at a massive multi-space facility that might offer the state’s most awe-inspiring concert hall.

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Jazz Album Review: Anna Webber’s “Shimmer Wince” — A Remarkable Menagerie of Sound

October 20, 2023
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Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.

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Arts Remembrance: The Passage of a Giant — Carla Bley, 1936 – 2023

October 18, 2023
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Carla Bley was an original. We will never see her like again. It is a great blessing that she left so much music.

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Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

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Jazz Commentary: Four Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — New Wine in New Bottles

October 4, 2023
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Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Winners from Roy McGrath, Chembo Corniel, and Big Band Leaders Marcos Fernández and Arturo O’Farrill

October 2, 2023
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Big band leader Arturo O’Farrill points out that “Santiago Brooklyn Santiago” makes a forceful argument that the embargo between Cuba and the United States should be done away with.

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Jazz Concert Review: The Walter Smith III Quintet, Live at the Regattabar

September 18, 2023
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The Regattabar, located in the Charles Hotel, re-opened after being shuttered for three years following the Covid epidemic.

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Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo –“El Arte del Bolero, Volume Two”

September 16, 2023
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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.

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Jazz Album Review: Eddie Henderson’s “Witness to History” — Veteran Talents

September 14, 2023
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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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