After All Is Said (482 Music) There’s plenty of free improvisation on this third album…
Tag: Fall 2015
These Human Beings (AlfaMusic) After earning a fair amount of acclaim in Europe, the Italian…
You’ve Been Watching Me (ECM) It’s no surprise that alto saxophonist-composer Tim Berne has an…
Solo (Palmetto) Pianist Fred Hersch’s 30-year recording career includes 10 solo CDs, with four of…
World of Pixinguinha (Adventure Music) Alfredo da Rocha Viana Jr., known to the world as…
Futuresoul (Concord) Whatever one thinks of “smooth jazz,” there are certain mainstay artists working in…
Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note) In 2012, Joe Lovano and Dave…
No UTurn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 (Dark Tree) Recorded live at Caltech in November 1975,…
Twenty-Two (Hot Tone Music) Musicians usually don’t lay all their cards on the table in…
Graffiti (Savant) Tenor saxophonist JD Allen is a master of concision. While his longstanding trio…
The Deep Below (BlueLand/Palmetto) The album’s title, The Deep Below, plays off Brian Landrus’ focus…
Synovial Joints (Pi) For three decades, alto saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman has been working…
The Power of Two (Panorama) For the first duo recording of his nearly four-decade career,…
Now This (ECM) At the age of 80, bassist Gary Peacock plays, improvises and composes…
Table of Changes (Intakt) Having spent a decade together in Anthony Braxton’s quartet during the…
Brooklyn (Three Faces) Bassist John Patitucci has few peers when it comes to doubling on…
The Uppercut: Live at Okuden (ESP-Disk) Pianist Matthew Shipp and saxophonist/clarinetist/flutist Mat Walerian hail from…
Foreign Territory (Fresh Sound/New Talent) The title of trumpeter and flugelhornist John Raymond’s sophomore release…
The Road Keeps Winding (Red Piano) Vocalists who interpret the work of a singer and…