Craig Taborn
A six-LP, three-CD collection gives us the bassist leading exceptional small groups in music of rigor, energy, and expansive range.
Two jazz albums whose uncompromising visions succeed.
The trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.
Two new releases, led respectively by a saxophonist and a bassist, add to the growing mystique of trios in contemporary jazz.
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.
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.
A baker’s dozen of recordings worth hearing . . . maybe even owning.
On these two discs you’ll find masterfully played, engaging excursions into the tonal beyond.
Bill 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.
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