Jazz
The planned variety of sounds and rhythms is the adroit work of a composer dedicated to both freedom and his own version of continuity.
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.
The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.
Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental.
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.
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.
Pianist Larry Goldings’ repertoire on this trio album is expertly chosen for its variety and melodic appeal.
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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