Jazz
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
The Window contains an inspired pairing — between singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist-organist Sullivan Fortner.
Tyshawn Sorey flies far from his innovative masters. I hardly expected that the result would be so mesmerizing and alive.
Is this lineup of jazz performances richer and more mouth-watering than we’ve seen in many a year? Yep.
It is this ability to ground their sophistication that makes the Macuco Quintet a band worthy of affection as well as admiration.
For the most part, Randy Weston reached behind the boppers, drawing for inspiration on a solo stride tradition which he adapted to his own needs.
“What is new since the ’70s is a much broader ideological shift in the business world itself, and the way in which it came to approach the jazz world as a result.”
With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.
Jazz Commentary: Chet Baker — The Climax of Cool
For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
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