Entries from December 2015
Jon Davis: Changes Over Time
While there are no liner notes to accompany pianist Jon Davis’ third date for the Posi-Tone imprint, there’s a quote inside the package, attributed to author Anne Rice, that gets to the heart of the matter: “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” So is personal… [ read more ]
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·Tyler Kaneshiro: Amber of the Moment
First impressions mean everything. Amber of the Moment, trumpeter / composer m: Tyler Kaneshiro ‘s debut album opens with a cloying cover of Bjork’s “Who Is It.” While nicely rendered, and suitably arranged, Kaneshiro’s version plays it safe, replacing all of the oddness of the origin… [ read more ]
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·Peter Paulsen Trio: A Few Thoughts
Bassist and composer Peter Paulsen is not reticent in his willingness to quote the bible. He specifically cites Matthew 13: 31-32 in stating an approach to creating music rooted in observation and execution through improvisation, communication and impulsiveness. He references a line regarding the mu..
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·Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New
When your first or last name is “Miles” and you play jazz and you make an album dueting with a trumpet player and you call it Kind of New, you’re opening yourself up to all sorts of assumptions and expectations. Well, let’s get those expectations out of the way. Kind of New is not an update, reimagi..
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·CEO Experiment: CEO Experiment
CEO Experiment’s eponymous debut, merging jazz’s more traditional roots with a modern aesthetic, is proof not only of a fine trio in the making but also of Dublin’s thriving cosmopolitan jazz scene. Born of a jam session in The International Bar–one of the city’s most renowned jazz sanctuaries–in… [ read more ]
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·Jose Gurria’s Gurrisonic Orchestra: Three Kids Music
Accompanied by a richly illustrated, full-color 46-page booklet (with notes by Jeff Tamarkin, the Associate Editor of JazzTimes Magazine) and packaged in a lush trifold paper sleeve, Three Kids Music by m: JosA(C) GurrA-a and his 21-piece Gurrisonic Orchestra projects a sort of hugenes… [ read more ]
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·Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen
Over a period spanning eight years (2001-2009) Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger has radically reinterpreted the works of medieval composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut. Holliger calls the resulting disc, Machaut-Transkriptionen “transcriptions” but in fact it is much more than that. By chan… [ read more ]
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