Lloyd Sachs
Lloyd’s Contributions
01/05/12 Albums
Family
3 Cohens
Lloyd Sachs reviews the new collaboration by the Israeli-born siblings
01/04/12 Albums
Orvieto
Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani
Lloyd Sachs reviews Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani's piano duets album
12/21/11 Albums
Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose
Claire Daly Quintet
Mary Joyce, a cousin of baritone saxophonist Claire Daly’s father, was a Wisconsin native who made history as a long-distance dogsledder in pre-statehood Alaska. On this beautifully realized album, Daly captures Joyce’s adventurous spirit, determination...
12/18/11 Albums
This Is Jazz
Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham
This Is Jazz is the most consistently enjoyable of the three albums Donald Harrison has recorded with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Cobham. Alto saxophonist Harrison, a standout player in settings ranging from the Jazz Messengers to his own neo-bop...
10/25/11 Albums
Lines of Oppression
Ari Hoenig
Lloyd Sachs reviews drummer Ari Hoenig's unpredictable new release
10/13/11 Albums
Awakening
Nicole Mitchell
Nicole Mitchell’s emergence as the jazz flutist of the moment—and Jeff Parker’s continuing ascension as one of improvisational music’s great young guitarists—is only furthered by their work together on Awakening . Featuring bassist Harrison Bankhead (Mitchell’s...
10/11/11 Albums
The Incredible Honk
Roswell Rudd
An international flavor permeates the trombonist's latest
09/07/11 Albums
Recombination
Taylor Haskins
More than 40 years after In a Silent Way , the fusion genre is as ripe for updates as ever, what with musicians growing savvier in the application of electronics and ever more willing to approach jazz-rock less as a departure from the mainstream than an...
09/01/11 Albums
Invades Vancouver!
One For All
Formed in 1996, the hard-bop consortium One for All has been an ongoing concern three times as long as any edition of their legendary role model, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Familiarity has a way of breeding stagnation, but as this live recording demonstrates...
08/05/11 Albums
Ghosts
Peter Evans Quintet
You don’t have to be fully caffeinated to appreciate Ghosts , but a can or two of Red Bull might put you more comfortably in the speed zone where Peter Evans spends much of his time on Ghosts . Working with live-processing wiz Sam Pluta, the remarkable young...
07/28/11 Albums
In Search of...
Ken Peplowski
Like Scott Hamilton, Ken Peplowski has proven the best revenge for being stereotyped as a neo-swing player is to develop a personal style and sound that skirts tradition as rewardingly as it basks in it. Though the clarinetist weds jazz to raga here on a...
07/19/11 Albums
Kaiso Stories
Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor
Roots tributes seldom get as fascinating or as cultishly seductive as Kaiso Stories , on which Brooklyn-based singer Fay Victor teams with the free-jazz collective Other Dimensions in Music to revisit, reinvent and audaciously retool songs from her Trinidadian...
05/16/11 Albums
SoundDance: Duos With Fred Anderson and George Lewis
Muhal Richard Abrams
SoundDance is a momentous release several times over. It marks the 80th birthday of the great pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams and the sad passing last year of his AACM friend and colleague, tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, with whom he had rarely recorded...
May 2011 Albums
Graylen Epicenter
David Binney
The first unexpected moment on David Binney’s continually surprising Graylen Epicenter comes in an extended passage on the opening track, “All of Time.” Against a brusque, oddly repeating six-note phrase by the horn section that initially makes you think...
May 2011 Albums
Endangered Blood
Endangered Blood
Whenever Jim Black is behind the traps, there’s a good chance some variant of drum ’n’ bass will be employed. The fine self-titled debut by Endangered Blood, however, boasts only one such funkish exercise. Still, while tenor saxophonist Chris Speed and alto...
April 2011 Albums
Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po
Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor
True to its name, Mario Pavone’s Orange Double Tenor sextet thrives on the dual horns of Tony Malaby and Jimmy Greene. Returning from Pavone’s acclaimed 2008 quintet effort, Ancestors , they bolster and expand his intricate, neatly ordered freebop compositions...
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