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Two Masterful Duos (Night and Day) article @ All About Jazz

Two Masterful Duos (Night and Day) article @ All About Jazz

Multiple Reviews By Geno Thackara July 20, 2022 Sign in to view read count ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Sachal Vasandani and ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Romain Collin turned sudden isolation into figurative gold. The simple duo album Midnight Shelter (Edition, 2021) was a rich sleeper that proved to steadily get better with time. With the epidemic hardly slowing down over the…

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Guitarists in the Age of Isolation article @ All About Jazz

Guitarists in the Age of Isolation article @ All About Jazz

Multiple Reviews By Geno Thackara July 14, 2022 Sign in to view read count The Joel Newton Situation New Now Self Produced 2022 Since the first year of Covid had left everyone suddenly making music alone, of course it was inevitable that the trend of isolation albums would eventually give way to the out-of-isolation album as the world moved into partial circulation. For the ”…

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Inspiration Incarnate article @ All About Jazz

Inspiration Incarnate article @ All About Jazz

Wadada Leo Smith: Inspiration Incarnate article @ All About Jazz Multiple Reviews By Doug Collette July 11, 2022 Sign in to view read count ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Wadada Leo Smith‘s The String Quartets Nos. 1-12 and The Emerald Duets are right in line with his well-established, iconoclastic means of creativity. Material composed and arranged with consummate care and attention to…

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New Reinier van Houdt on Elsewhere article @ All About Jazz

New Reinier van Houdt on Elsewhere article @ All About Jazz

When is a double album not a double album? That question is raised by the latest pair of Elsewhere releases from the Rotterdam-based composer and pianist Reinier van Houdt. The two come in separate sleeves, have different, unconnected titles, different cover art and were recorded months apart, although they both feature van Houdt alone. The two albums have catalogue numbers 021-1 and 021-2 which…

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The Seneca Village Concerts article @ All About Jazz

The Seneca Village Concerts article @ All About Jazz

The Seneca Village Concerts article @ All About Jazz Multiple Reviews By Jerome Wilson June 27, 2022 Sign in to view read count For much of 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus pandemic brought a screeching halt to virtually all live music performances in this country. To combat that, some individuals in various locales arranged series of live open-air performances. One was recording engineer and…

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Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? article @ All About Jazz

Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? article @ All About Jazz

Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? article @ All About Jazz Home » Articles » Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? Multiple Reviews By Doug Collette June 12, 2022 Sign in to view read count It was back in 1968 that the Bonzo Dog Band tendered the immortal question in this article’s title, but it remains an interrogatory relevant to our…

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The Perpetual Appeal Of The Blues article @ All About Jazz

The Perpetual Appeal Of The Blues article @ All About Jazz

By Doug Collette May 6, 2022 Sign in to view read count Perfectly complementary in their earthy simplicity, the archive titles by Son House and Reverend Gary Davis offer an antidote to the antiseptic ephemera that is contemporary pop. None other than Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys curated the former’s Forever On My Mind (and released it on his own Easy Eye Sound label) while the latter’s Let Us…

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April 2022 article @ All About Jazz

April 2022 article @ All About Jazz

By Geno Thackara May 3, 2022 Sign in to view read count Okay, we’re technically cheating here since this first one is a duo, but there’s a full enough sound that you probably wouldn’t know it. As is so often the case with piano groups, there’s no end to the variety. Glass Museum Reflet Self produced 2022 Glass Museum band/orchestra ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Glass Museum isn’t nearly as…

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