Tuesday, June 14 2011
Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo: Songs of Mirth and Melancholy
Alternately delicate and earthy saxophone/piano duets, rather splendid.
Monday, June 6 2011
Miles Davis: The Definitive Miles Davis on Prestige
The latest Miles Davis collection chronicles some of the best, most interesting and hungry tunes the legend ever offered.
Friday, May 27 2011
Nicholas Urie: My Garden
Like Bukowski, the gloomy laureate whose work is re-sounded here, Nichloas Urie is not afraid to walk on the dark side. He's also able to find fragments of beauty in the gloom.
Wednesday, May 25 2011
Telebossa: Telebossa
Bussmann surrounds Mello's soft voice with the sound of corks popping, and then circles around him in an avant-garde, repetitive way with the cello.
Friday, May 20 2011
Malika Zarra: Berber Taxi
The marriage of voice-and-keyboard jazz with gnawa, oud and various North African ideas is so deft that the joints never show.
Wednesday, May 11 2011
(It’s Always) Time For McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner epitomizes the restless spirit and inspiration that characterizes all of our great artists. He was already a master by the mid-’60s; his work with John Coltrane could be studied and analyzed the way entire catalogs of music get dissected by critics. He was neither sated nor satisfied though, so he kept pushing and his work became increasingly ambitious, wide in scope and rewarding
Wednesday, May 4 2011
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Project
Ernest Dawkins may have started the New Horizons Ensemble in 1978, but they're still thinking about those new horizons.
David Liebman: Lieb Plays the Blues à la Trane
Don't let the lofty title fool you, saxophonist David Liebman is just playing covers and having fun here.
Tuesday, May 3 2011
Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder
Here's a duet album sure to stretch your brain as well as your ears. It's certainly not for everyone.
Monday, May 2 2011
Matthew Shipp: Art of the Improviser
Matthew Shipp gave his 50th birthday a few victory laps last year, and this double album is the outcome.
