ALAN FERBER
MARCH SUBLIME (Sunnyside)
Mid-March, 2020. France is about to begin its first COVID-19 lockdown. Originally set for 15 days, it would end up lasting into May. Cellist Vincent … Read More “Reverso: Live (OutNote)”
This big-band-bolstered set from ace vocalist Alexis Cole leans on the literal with its subtitle: Songs from My Tour of Duty. In 2009, following a … Read More “Alexis Cole: Sky Blossom (Zoho)”
Architecture of Storms is Remy Le Boeuf’s second large-ensemble album. The first, Assembly of Shadows, received two Grammy nominations in 2019. It would not be … Read More “Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows: Architecture of Storms (Soundspore)”
Taken from a previously unissued live recording caught at Tokyo’s Hibiya Public Hall in 1961 during the Jazz Messengers’ first-ever tour of Japan, First Flight … Read More “Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)”
