Tim Berne’s ‘Yikes, Too’ Creates Adventure and Magic
Tim Berne’s Yikes Too is three imaginative jazz musicians in a sandbox, building and molding, occasionally smashing a bit, but most typically creating magic.
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Lake, Haynes, Fonda, and Altschul form an OG Band of Jazz Empathy
OGJB are four out-jazz OGs get together for a sophomore outing, sounding a little like “O” (Ornette Coleman) and a whole lot like themselves.
Bassist John Hebert Reimagines Vintage Charles Mingus for the New Era
The sweet-and-sour combinations of sounds and personalities on John Hébert’s Sounds of Love are of the moment and reach back a half-century to remind of a treasure.