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...Now aged 41, his recordings take in up-to-the-minute jazz with Blue Note, neoclassical hip-hop on 2018’s Origami Harvest and tear-jerking romanticism with vocalist Dhafer Youssef on the recent Streets of...
...Every soloist on the opener has their own brassy accompaniment, sheens of brass swell moodily behind “Red Ellen”’s soloists and sparse ripples of Florian Weber’s piano decorate the rich-with-detail ballad...
...This year’s Inventions/Reinventions took a left-field look at Bach’s Two-Part Inventions while 2019’s epic Natural Machines, which was five years in the making, merged piano and computer science....
...suits stood round a table, dabbing and daubing while the music played — their collaborative art, projected on a video screen, did not alter the fact that they looked like field-medics in a scene from M*A*S*...
...Rising to a peak, it segues smoothly into “Onset II”’s grainy electronic textures, spacious rhythms and Moran’s deadened notes. A sense of inevitability makes the improvised seem pre-composed....
...“El Mundo”, featuring Brazilian singer Flavia Coelho and producer Tony Romera, is sung in Spanish and mixes 1980s synth with EDM, and “Tout S’Illumine”, with French musician -M- (Matthieu Chedid) and US...
...As on 2016’s Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues, drummer Rudy Royston and bassist Gregg August cushion Allen’s muse with sparse riffs and stripped-down beats....
...Previous albums focused his trumpet elegance and funky beats on social concerns — his last album, 2021’s Blk2Life: a Future Past, had an epic, Afrofuturist core....
...The first disc opens with swirls of Clive-Lowe grand piano and a Teodross Avery contemplation on tenor sax; scene set, the jaunty groove of “Upper Egypt”, from 1967’s Tauhid, finds Avery alternating contemplative...
...The gripping narratives and disciplined warmth of modern jazz quintet Opus 5’s latest release reflect dues paid at the centre of New York jazz....
...Share prices in the sector are sharply down: the S&P Composite 1500 Asset Managers index has dropped 23 per cent since the start of 2022....
...Feeding the Machine is their first studio recording since 2017’s Journey to the Mountain of Forever....
...The winsome “Better Days Ahead”, from 1989’s Letter from Home, mixes old styles and new, the up-tempo “Timeline” refreshes the sonics of organ-trio jazz, and Coleman’s “Turnaround”, re-cast as a blues, delivers...
...As on their first collaboration, 2016’s The Declaration of Musical Independence, Ben Street anchors the band on bass and the drummer decorates the pulse with pings, rattles and taps, adding texture with...
...Groove established, a crisp roll and two rimshots cued the theme of “S’Wonderful”, harmonised warmly by the front-line horns....
...The solo performances begin with 1958’s bewitching “Peace Piece” and end with the equally beguiling “Letter to Evan” recorded at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in 1980....
...On side B, slinky bass clarinet sets up “J.P.’s Thing”, an 11-minute burst of sharp-suited funk with a wicked trombone break and the rumbling thunder of Elvin Jones’s drums....
...They released a live self-titled recording from that year’s Monterey Jazz Festival on Blue Note — the set premiered two new Shorter compositions — and their first studio album, 2018’s Scandal, included two...
...The oldest composition, 1959’s “Giggin’”, comes from Coleman’s first piano-free recording and the most recent from the Science Fiction sessions he recorded for Columbia in 1971....
...Here though, the saxophonist delves deeper into the resonant lyricism and understated rhythms that marked 2019’s Trio Tapestry, his ECM debut as a leader....
...It is her third solo LP, following 2015’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit and 2018’s Tell Me How You Really Feel....
...Dinosaur’s previous album, 2018’s Wonder Trail, was an electronica-laden work in progress....
...The album opens with the voice of saxophonist Jimmy Heath describing the trumpeter’s sound as “pure, elegant and tasty”, with the first track, 1958’s “Milestones”, proving his point....
...Galvin’s acoustic piano was showcased in 2019’s somewhat poppy trio recording Modern Times and, in complete contrast, with saxophonist Binker Golding in the free jazz duet album Ex Nihilo....
...The twelve albums documenting Keith Jarrett’s solo jazz piano recitals begin with the extended improvisations of 1973’s Solo Concerts, Bremen/Lausanne, include the bestselling The Köln Concert, recorded...
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