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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

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These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

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Article: Album Review

Alain Bedard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores

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The experience of bassist Alain Bedard's Partcules Sonores begins--for those who read liner notes--with a rumination on “sound waves that interact with every particle of matter they encounter. The energy created is transported and diffused, becoming sound particles." Hm. A bit cerebral for some tastes, perhaps. But then jazz guys are known to go ...

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Article: Album Review

T. K. Blue: Planet Bluu

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Is T.K. Blue the coolest name for a jazz artist? Only “Thelonious Monk" competes in the category. Blue (aka Talib Kibue) a New Yorker of Trinidad and Jamaican descent who boasts a wide-ranging career--involvements with saxophonist Sam Rivers and pianist Randy Weston (he plays on Weston's 1991, Verve Records masterpiece, The Spirits Of Our Ancestors)--showcases a ...

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Leslie Pintchik: Prayer For What Remains

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As a doctoral candidate at Columbia University studying 17th-century English literature and working as a teaching assistant, Leslie Pintchik could have moved into a life of academia. But, an old story: jazz called. She wanted a music career. A clear-eyed financial advisor might have tried to dissuade her, pointing out the problems and pitfalls of making ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Evans: In Norway

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Pianist Bill Evans' career lasted from the late 1950s until his passing in 1980, but beginning around about 20 years into the 21st century CD releases under Evan's name have been rolling along at a brisk clip, thanks to the Resonance, Elemental and Ess- thetics Record labels. Zev Feldman, often called “The Jazz Detective," has played ...

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Article: Album Review

Angell & Crane: Angell & Crane

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Montreal-based artists Simon Angell and Tommy Crane make what they call “jazz-adjacent improvised music." Angell plays bass and guitars, along with synths. Crane crafts his sounds with drums and percussion, programming synths and a vibraphone. Mix in some vocalese by Sarah Rossy and alto sax and flute from Charlotte Greve and we have Angell & Crane, ...

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Thelonius Garcia: Marche Nocturne

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The first name Thelonious--does it come from the word theology? Is a parent giving a newborn a form of divinity with the appellation? This is speculation; the answer is up in the air, but the most famous Thelonious is Thelonious Sphere Monk, one of the brightest of jazz stars to emerge in the age of bebop. ...

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Article: Album Review

David Friesen: A Light Shining Through

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The music of bassist David Friesen is inspired by two major sources: his ancestral Ukrainian roots and his Christian faith. While the Christian aspect of the inspiration is probably long-term, the familial roots part of the equation seems to have gained traction with Testimony (Origin Records, 2021), a piece recorded with a jazz quartet 2018 in ...

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Article: Album Review

Collin Sherman: Noir

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Making music is most often a collaborative affair. Big bands, duos, trios, quartets and quintets--take your pick. Miles Davis (or any other of your favorites) calls his guys into the studio or to the stage where they bump elbows and trade riffs, drawing their individual personalities out to form a collection of sound waves to craft ...

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Andy Wheelock: Whee3trio: In The Wheelhouse

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The first minute of an imminent immersion into the sound of In the Wheelhouse, by drummer Andy Wheelock and the Whee3trio, is “rhythm, rhythm, rhythm." The second impression is “Africa." This is not surprising given that Wheelock took a good deal of his inspiration for this effort via his study of the Ghanaian gyil, a type ...


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This and That: November 2024
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