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Entries from March 2016

Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove: Checkpoint

Clarinetist David Krakauer has been exploring his Eastern European Jewish background through music for the past quarter century. He’s managed to touch on his roots in varied ways during that time, tapping into Jewish history with some help from the Kronos Quartet on The Dreams And Prayers Of Isaac T… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 31st, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Kodama Trio: Kodama Trio

Funny how groups come together. The Kodama Trio, resident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is comprised of three individuals from completely different backgrounds and completely different parts of the country. Pianist m: Robert Muller , originally from Portland, OR, has spent time in New York Cit… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 31st, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Nik BA rtsch’s Mobile: Continuum

The timing couldn’t have been better. Following up on the stunning double-CD live outing, Nik BA rtsch’s Ronin Live (ECM, 2012), BA rtsch returns with his acoustic group, Mobile, for Continuum. With clarinetist Sha and drummer Kaspar Rast crossing over from Ronin, a new addition, Nicolas Stocker, on… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 31st, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Portraits and Places

m: Scott Reeves formed his splendid New York-based orchestra eight years ago, in 2008, and while Portraits and Places marks its recorded debut, Reeves spent a number of years before that sharpening his composing and arranging skills at the highly regarded BMI Jazz Composers Workshop wher… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 31st, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Jeff Lederer’s Brooklyn Blowhards: Brooklyn Blowhards

Imagine seeing a despondent m: Albert Ayler walking around Brooklyn on a cold November day in 1970, with his tenor saxophone under his arm. Some say he threw himself into the East River, a suicide by drowning. His loss, our loss, was one a true original voices in jazz

Date: Mar 31st, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Daniel Freedman: Imagine That

Few can match drummer m: Daniel Freedman when it comes to pan-stylistic jazz presentations that cut across cultural lines. This lifelong New Yorker has found a way to bridge sonic worlds, erase boundary lines, and merge various musical languages in masterful fashion in his own work and i… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 30th, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

David Linx / Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Brel

While m: David Linx ‘s name may not be writ large here in the States, the fifty-one year-old singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist is a mega-star in his native Belgium, and in 2005 was named Best Jazz Musician in Europe, which covers a whole lot of territory. On Brel, Linx sings musi… [ read more ]

Date: Mar 30th, 2016 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews