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Joe Lovano

Jazz Album Review: Marco Pignataro’s Superb “Chant For Our Planet”

Chant For Our Planet is a great recording full of exciting ensemble playing, with lots of tasty solos and, if you want to listen in that way, an important theme that expresses deep concern for the state of our environment.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Chant For Our Planet, Jason M. Rubin, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Marco Pignataro, Terri Lyne Carrington

Jazz Album Review: “Garden of Expression” — Virtuosic Meditations

It’s easy to single out each of these musicians, but listeners will hear the three as nearly one, which is surely what this trinity intended.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Carmen Castaldi, ECM, Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Trio Tapestry

Jazz Survey: Chordless Drills – A Listener’s Guide to the Saxophone Trio

Here is a personal selection of recordings in the saxophone trio format. These linear collaborations have been part of the jazz scene for at least seventy years now. The results are almost always illuminating and exhilarating, and a review of them offers a miniature history of saxophone styles.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Air, Albert Ayler, Bob Moses, Bradford Marsalis, Dave Liebman, David Murray, Elvin Jones, Fly, Henry Grimes, Henry Threadgill, JD Allen, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, John-Coltrane, Jon Irabagon, Kenny Garrett, Lee Konitz, Marcus Strickland, Mark Turner, Melissa Aldana, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, Saxophone trio, Sonny-Rollins, Steve Adams, Steve Elman, Steve Lacy, The Fringe

Jazz Album/Concert Review: Saxophonist Joe Lovano — x 2

No matter his musical surroundings, there is never any doubt that it is Joe Lovano you are hearing.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Andrew Cyrille, Ben Street, Joe Lovano, Live at the Village Vanguard, Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Michal Miskiewicz, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Steve Feeney, Village Vangard

Jazz CD Survey: Snapshots and Concepts, Summer 2018

A baker’s dozen of recordings worth hearing . . . maybe even owning.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: 12 Classic Albums, 1953 - 1962, A Rift in Decorum, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill-Frisell, Blue Note All Stars, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra, Compassion - The Music of John Coltrane, Craig Taborn, Dave Liebman, Dave Stryker, Daylight Ghosts, Dedication, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Horace Silver, Horace Silver: Quintet June 1977, I'm Ready, Joe Lovano, John-Coltrane, Joyful Noise - The Music of Horace Silver, Live at the Village Vanguard, Memphis ... Yes, Our Point of View, Small Town, Steve Slagle, Strykin’ Ahead, The Sting Variations, Tierney Sutton Band

Jazz CD Review: “Scandal” — Masters of Their Art

Scandal is a masterful example of musical discourse dedicated to making the most of the powers and pleasures of tradition-infused improvised jazz.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: David Douglas, Joe Lovano, Scandal, Sound Prints, Steve Feeney

Jazz CD Review: “Compassion” — A Deft Homage to John Coltrane

Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Compassion, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, John-Coltrane, Michael Ullman, Resonance recording

Jazz Review: Chucho Valdés – Joe Lovano Quintet at the Berklee Performance Center — Molto Vivo

Intense head music and powerful foot music, but this show needed a little more heart.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Chucho Valdés, Gaston Joya Perellada, Joe Lovano

Concert Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet — Creative Flexibility Times Four

The point of the Spring Quartet, one assumes, is to showcase its four multi-talented members, particularly their talents as composers.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Esperanza Spaulding, Jack DeJohnette, Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet, Joe Lovano, Leo Genovese

Jazz Review: Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall

The Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra sought bravely to straddle the jazz and classical worlds with a little help from some star soloists.

By: Steve Mossberg Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Adam Cruz, Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, The Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra

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