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Entries from May 2015

John Fedchock Quartet Live: Fluidity

Fluidity could have just as easily been called A Night In The Life Of A Jazz Musician. There’s no high profile or out-of-place guest here to sell records, no world famous stage for this quartet to grace, and no abstruse concept to push the music with.

Date: May 31st, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Jason Stillman: Prelude

Alto saxophonist Jason Stillman’s Montreal-based quartet makes its recorded debut on Prelude, a sunny and engaging blend of Stillman originals and jazz standards whose spacious boundaries provide ample room for ardent blowing, especially by Stillman and pianist Josh Rager. Although the group has bee…

Date: May 31st, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Yes: Yes: Progeny – Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

A sad life truth is that, for far too many people, massive success changes everything. Despite making more money than would last the average family many lifetimes, they go through it like water; they gradually begin to believe all the positive press and massive sales, becoming legends in their own m…

Date: May 31st, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Isaiah B. Brunt: Just the Way That It Goes

Less amorphous than most present-day jazz has become, contemporary blues has remained, more or less integrated and within recognizable genre. Not that classifications provide anything more than an inferior roadmap to the new listener, they do come in handy.

Date: May 31st, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Anna Lundqvist Quintet: Ten

Ten marks the tenth anniversary of Swedish vocalist Anna Lundqvist’s band, initially a quartet, then since 2009 a quintet. This is Lundqvist’s fourth album, offering twelve of Lundqvist’s most popular songs recorded live during 2014 at jazz clubs around Sweden.

Date: May 31st, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Yes: Yes: Progeny – Highlights From Seventy Two

Progeny: Highlights From Seventy Two consists of ninety minutes of live recordings exhumed from Yes’ 1972 tour, some of which were released as Yessongs (Atlantic, 1973). Culled from seven previously unreleased recordings of complete concerts, and sequenced to approximate a setlist of the time, this…

Date: May 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff

Intrepid pianist and composer Vijay Iyer’s Break Stuff is an intimate work brimming with an intense poetry and a subtly dramatic ambience. The latter results from the complementary and contrasting elements, which are intricately interwoven within each of the dozen tracks that comprise the album. On…

Date: May 30th, 2015 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews