Jazz

Jazz CD and Book Review: Pianist Fred Hersch — On the Page and on Disc

September 3, 2017
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A gripping autobiography and beautiful new solo CD from a master jazz pianist — Fred Hersch.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Freedom Now — Tetraptych’s “Tetraptych” and The Alchemists’ “Journey to the East”

August 30, 2017
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If you want to know how exquisitely intuition and structure can be balanced, you could hardly do better than to hear these two new discs.

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Music Remembrance: John Abercrombie — From Chuck Berry to Chamber Jazz, With Stops Along the Way

August 23, 2017
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John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness.

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Jazz CD Review: Matt Wilson’s “Honey and Salt” — Homage to Carl Sandburg

August 21, 2017
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Matt Wilson’s album includes both beautifully performed musical settings and readings of Carl Sandburg poems.

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Jazz CD Review: “Hudson” — Free Jazz in the Summer of Love

July 29, 2017
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Hudson serves up varied, fresh, and exciting free jazz that imaginatively draws on rock, funky blues, and folk music.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Laszlo Gardony: “Serious Play”; Tim Ray: “Windows”; Yoko Miwa: “Pathways”

July 23, 2017
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These three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.

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Jazz CD Review: Dominique Eade and Ran Blake’s Personal Vision of Americana on “Town and Country”

July 18, 2017
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The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.

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Jazz CD Review: Pianist Ahmad Jamal — Still a Classic

July 13, 2017
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Pianist Ahmad Jamal rose to fame by doing something completely different.

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Jazz Review: Thelonious Monk’s: “Les liaisons dangereuses 1960” – Times Retrieved

July 11, 2017
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But, good as the support is, it’s all about Thelonious Monk, who is in superlative form throughout.

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Jazz CD Review: “Compassion” — A Deft Homage to John Coltrane

July 6, 2017
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Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.

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