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Thursday, September 24, 2020

ALBUMS: Dave Feels Dizzy

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Michael Toland 0 Comments Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell, Clifford Brown, Dave Douglas, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Gerald Clayton, Lee Morgan, Linda Han Oh, Miles Davis

On the excellent Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity, the NYC trumpet great pays respect to the master

jazz

ALBUMS: Wolfgang Muthspiel’s New Directions In Angularity

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Michael Toland 0 Comments 2020, Angular Blues, Brian Blade, ECM, Larry Grenadier, Scott Colley, Wolfgang Muthspiel

The Austrian guitarist conjures a killer trio for latest ECM classic

Blues Indie Rock Post-Punk

The Resurrection of Rowland S. Howard

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Michael Toland 1 Comment Crime and the City Solution, Epic Soundtracks, Fat Possum Records, Mick Harvey, Nick Cave, Pop Crimes, Rowland S. Howard, Teenage Snuff Film, The Birthday Party

In this exclusive interview, Mick Harvey talks extensively about working with his old mate in The Birthday Party and Crime and the City Solution on the newly reissued Teenage Snuff Film

jazz

ALBUMS: Cookin’ With The Twin Towers Of Tenor

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Michael Toland 0 Comments 1962, Art Taylor, Buddy Catlett, Count Basie, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Horace Parlan, Johnny Griffin, Ow! Live at the Penthouse, Real to Reel

An recently unearthed live collection from 1962 captures sax greats Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis in full head cutting mode

jazz

ALBUMS: A Double Shot of Dave Douglas

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments 2019, Andrew Cyrille, Anna Webber, Carla Bley, Dave Douglas, Devotion, Engage, Greenleaf Label, Jazz, Kate Gentile, Nick Dunston, Tomeka Reid, Uri Caine

Two exquisite and exploratory new albums on the trumpet great’s Greenleaf label continue to showcase his fearlessness in flight

jazz

ALBUMS: Keith Jarrett Solo In Munich

December 18, 2019December 22, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments ECM, Germany, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Munich

The king of piano improvisation captured live in ECM’s fatherland

Fusion jazz

ALBUMS: Jazz’s Brassiest Power Couple Brings The Family On Sacred Bond

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Ada Rovatti, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond, Dreams, Frank Zappa, Michael Brecker, Piloo, Randy Brecker

Legendary trumpet player Randy Brecker and wife Ada Rovatti shine on vibrant new collection of faves from the Rovatti catalog

jazz

Bill Frisell’s Harmony Hall

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Bill Frisell, Elvis Costello, Hank Roberts, Luke Bergman, Pete Seeger, Petra Haden

As the guitarist headlines the Jazz Standard this weekend, we take a deeper look at his Blue Note debut

Electronic jazz Psychedelics

The Comet Is Coming: The Comet Is Here

October 23, 2019October 24, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Dan “Danalogue” Leavers, Impulse! Records, Max “Betamax” Hallett, Shabaka & the Ancestors, Shabaka Hutchings, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming

An exclusive interview with the man they called Danalogue, one third of the best jazz trio in the UK

jazz

ALBUMS: Ethan Iverson and Tom Harrell Practice Common Ground

October 1, 2019November 4, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Common Practice, ECM, Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus, Tom Harrell

A new quintet blooms on ECM Records with Common Practice

jazz

ALBUMS: Playing The Room With Two Of Israeli Jazz’s Finest Musicians

October 1, 2019October 5, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Avishai Cohen, ECM, Israel, Manfred Eicher, Playing The Room, Tel Aviv, Yonathan Avishai

Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai shine on the longtime collaborators’ first duo recording

jazz

ALBUMS: Enrico Rava/Joe Lovano’s Rendezvous in Roma

September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Dezron Douglas, ECM, Enrico Rava, European Jazz, Gerald Cleaver, Italy, Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Paul Motian, Roma, Roswell Rudd

Two horn greats create true harmony between Europe and the United States in 2019 on their first duo LP for ECM

jazz

ALBUMS: The Return Of James Carter

August 23, 2019September 5, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Bill Withers, Blue Note, James Carter, Newport Jazz Festival

The sax great makes his first album in eight years his Blue Note debut, pays homage to Django Reinhardt

jazz Records

ALBUMS: The Jamie Saft Quartet Returns With Hidden Corners

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Alice Coltrane, Brad Jones, Dave Liebman, Hamid Drake, Jamie Saft Quartet, RareNoise Records

The Kerhonkson, NY-based piano guru and his transcendent four-piece call up the spirits for their second LP on RareNoise

Heavy Metal jazz

ALBUMS: Let’s Go Fly A Red Kite

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Norway, RareNoise Records, Red Kite

The Norwegian jazz collective recalibrates the art of jamming

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