Entries from January 2015
Tony Mastrull Jazz Nonet: The Tony Mastrull Project
In the late 1960s, the story circulated in Las Vegas that m: Elvis Presley caught aural wind of an original composition written by a young arranger and which piece was used in the Vegas production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The King was so taken by the tune’s emotio…
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·Zhenya Strigalev’s Smiling Organizm: Zhenya Strigalev’s Smiling Organizm: Robin Goodie
It’s always interesting to discover how the rest of the world views your country and this, the second album by Strigalev’s six piece Smiling Organizm, was apparently inspired by his time in England. So while we might reasonably expect a paean to the joys of tea, queue etiquette and appalling public…
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·Jonas Kullhammar: Gentlemen
Swedish saxophonist m: Jonas Kullhamma continues to capture the late-fifties and early-sixties Blue Note sound. That magic golden age of jazz, when legends roamed roamed the earth, and recorded their music at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio. His music conjures names like {{m: Joe Henderson = 757…
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·Annie Lennox: Nostalgia
You can’t fault Annie Lennox if she gives the impression Nostalgia is her first swipe at a “serious” jazz record. Back in the 90’s she entered the scene as the gender-bending vocalist of the Eurythmics turning out perfect synth pop. Lennox turned 60 this year and along with her closely-cropped grey…
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·Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Worker
Of all the bands playing jazz-rock, or fusion, or whatever-you-want- to-call it, the m: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (or JFJO as they’re known by their fans) is the one that comes closest to embodying Josef Zawinul’s dictum regarding m: Weather Report ‘s modus operandi: …”nob…
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·Juan Pablo Carletti/Tony Malaby/Christopher Hoffman: NiA o/Brujo
A funny thing happened on the way to a free jazz trio session. What’s funny is that leader m: Juan Pablo Carletti brought seven unique compositions for his trio to perform. The Argentinian-born, New York-based drummer recruited tenor saxophonist m: Tony Malaby and cellist {{m…
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·Tomasz Stanko: Leosia
Recorded in 1996 and released in 1997, Leosia is not only one of the high points of trumpeter m: Tomasz Stanko ‘s forty-year career, but one of the absolute gems in the ECM catalogue, twenty years removed from his first ECM recording, Balladyna. The album itself is one of those things that…
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