Craig Taborn
The trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.
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Two new releases, led respectively by a saxophonist and a bassist, add to the growing mystique of trios in contemporary jazz.
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I am not sure where the track titles come from, but I am guessing the problems the band had getting together under Covid must have something to do with them.
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Solo performance is still a way ahead for jazz pianists, judging from four CDs released in 2021.
The powerful quartets on The People I Love and Terra Incognita work toward locating places beyond notation where, in each moment, new vistas may emerge.
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A baker’s dozen of recordings worth hearing . . . maybe even owning.
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On these two discs you’ll find masterfully played, engaging excursions into the tonal beyond.
Read MoreBill Frisell and his quartet performed a program of well-worn American hits whose juxtapositions allowed you to make your own cross-references and draw your own conclusions.
Read MoreDave Holland’s Prism tells stories, several of which are very effective. Scofield’s, like his earlier Überjam releases, extends the jam-band esthetic into jazz without completely giving in to it. And neither of them would be as they are without the great looming shadow of Miles Davis.
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