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JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Summer 2022

By Will Layman / 18 August 2022

The best new jazz and creative music this summer features masters Charles Lloyd and Al Foster, experimentalist Tyshawn Sorey, and young cats DOMi and JD Beck.

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Pianist Vijay Iyer Looks Back and Ahead with His New Trio on ‘Uneasy’

By Will Layman / 13 May 2021

Vijay Iyer Trio’s Uneasy is a set of modern piano jazz covering a remarkable range, featuring three brilliant musical imaginations playing well together.

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Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret Create Continual Motion and Invention on ‘The Other Side of Air’

By Will Layman / 27 November 2018

Jazz pianist Myra Melford's ensemble of light textures and dancing rhythms continues to be creatively attractive but still challenging new jazz.

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Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over

By Will Layman / 24 August 2017

The everywhere-at-once pianist has recorded with his sextet, using a bank of horns for the first time and touching several different modes. An album of surprise, tradition, and exploration. But it grooves too.

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Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude

By Will Layman / 22 August 2017

The composer and drummer at the forefront of the New Jazz presents his trio—but the slow, deliberate, brilliant music is much more "jazz piano trio" music. It is a soundscape of astonishing detail.

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