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Michael Ullman

Arts Feature: Significant Jazz Experiences, 2020

The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorites — performances, recordings, and books.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Allen Michie, Michael Ullman, Steve Elman, Steve Feeney

Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “Budapest Concert” — Crystalline Endgame

My guess is that Keith Jarrett probably wasn’t satisfied with this performance. I wouldn’t change a note, a gesture, or a shading.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Budapest Concert, ECM, Keith Jarrett, Michael Ullman

Jazz Appreciation: A Celebration of Charlie Parker on His 100th Birthday

Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Charlie-Parker, James Carroll, Jon Garelick, Michael Ullman, Steve Ellman, Steve Provizer

Jazz Album Review: Dave Pietro’s “Hypersphere” — Complexity, Made Clear

Dave Pietro is a fine, distinctive composer, an agile, precise saxophonist, and a band leader to be trusted.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: ArtistShare, Dave Pietro, Hypersphere, Michael Ullman

Jazz EP Review: Esperanza Spalding and Fred Hersch: Live at the Village Vanguard — A Divine Duo

Yes, purchasing this EP will help out a good cause, but the musical value of this fabulous duo’s performance is priceless.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Esperanza Spalding, Fred Hersch, Live at the Village Vanguard, Michael Ullman, Rough Mix EP

Jazz CD Review: “Both Are True” — A Big Band Chock Full of the Unexpected

What strikes this listener most is the writing’s disjointedly distinctive — sometimes unfathomable — sounds and textures, as well as the music’s unpredictable flow.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Angela Morris., Both Are True, Greenleaf Music, Michael Ullman

Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited” — Continuing the Struggle for Civil Rights

In this disc dedicated to black heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Christian McBride insists that everyone must be free if any of us is going to be.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Christian McBride, Mack Avenue, Michael Ullman, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons

Best Jazz Recordings (and Live Concerts), 2019

Pianist Kris Davis’s Diatom Ribbons and the multi-disc set Nat King Cole’s Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-43) are among the albums that made more than one list.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Michael Ullman, Steve Elman, Steve Feeney, Steve Provizer

Jazz Album Reviews: The Music of Lerner and Loewe — Back in the Jazz Limelight?

The two new Arbors discs are intended to bring Lerner and Loewe back into the jazz mainstream. We will see what happens. But what wonderful music these two groups have produced!

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Adrian Cunningham, Adrian Cunningham and His Friends Play Lerner and Loewe, Dick Hyman, Ken Peplowski, Lerner and Loewe, Michael Ullman

Jazz CD Review: Pianist Erroll Garner — Remastered Sessions from His Prime

Octave is issuing twelve sessions (“newly restored and expanded”) of Erroll Garner material from the ’60s and ’70s, when the popular pianist was at the height of his career.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: A New Kind of Love, Closeup in Swing, Concert by the Sea, Dreamstreet, Erroll Garner, Mack Avenue, Michael Ullman, Octave Records, One World Concert

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