Adam O’Farrill
Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.
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A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental.
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We should be grateful for Ohad Talmor’s wide-ranging curiosity, not only because of the detective work he put into the Ornette Coleman/Lee Konitz recordings, but because of his uniquely varied presentations of these mostly unknown pieces.
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Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
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I find Visions of Your Other exciting. It is beautifully recorded: these are four musicians who care about their sound.
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The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year — Listomania! Confessions of a Bad Voter
So what am I saying? That the system is imperfect, corrupted by bad voters like me (there must be a few others who didn’t listen to even close to everything on this list — show of hands?)
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