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The 33rd Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle

John Gilbreath, executive director of Earshot Jazz, walked to the microphone on opening night to introduce the first concert of the 33rd Earshot Jazz Festival. … Read More “The 33rd Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle”

Sound Prints: Other Worlds (Greenleaf)

Sound Prints is tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas, along with pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Joey Baron. … Read More “Sound Prints: Other Worlds (Greenleaf)”

Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff (ECM)

Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and Michal Miskiewicz first got noticed in 2002, when they debuted as Tomasz Stanko’s rhythm section on his ECM album Soul … Read More “Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff (ECM)”

Live Review: ECM 50 in New York

To say that there is a single ECM Records sound is to oversimplify a catalog that now encompasses more than 1,600 albums. One suspects that if the late Jan Erik Kongshaug, who engineered hundreds of those albums, were still with us, he’d coolly dispute such a statement with a nuts-and-bolts response, pointing out the many … Read More

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Enrico Rava/Joe Lovano: Roma (ECM)

Although they’d played a handful of gigs together decades ago, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and American saxophonist Joe Lovano hadn’t undergone a proper co-leader tour until the 2018 outing that found them stopping in Rome to make this live recording. Accompanied by pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Dezron Douglas, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, the two horn … Read More

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Live Review: 2019 Detroit Jazz Festival

“Reunion” was the watchword for the 40th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, which welcomed back five of its former artists-in-residence for the occasion. But one unwelcome reunion threatened the fest’s culminating performance on Labor Day, as storm clouds once again gathered prior to Stanley Clarke’s final set—as they had in both 2014 and 2017, when the … Read More

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Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry (ECM)

Joe Lovano’s first album as a leader on ECM introduces a new trio. Marilyn Crispell is a pianist from the jazz avant-garde. Her background is unusual for a Lovano collaborator. Carmen Castaldi is a drummer from the Paul Motian school of minimalism. The first track, “One Time In,” opens with Lovano on gongs. You know … Read More

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Dave Douglas: Uplift (Greenleaf)

During his appearance at Winter Jazzfest 2017, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings implored the audience that “We need new songs, new hymns, new myths.” Uplift, the latest album from the prolific trumpeter Dave Douglas, is, albeit indirectly, a response to Hutchings’ plea. The record’s 12 tracks ring as treatises in musical form rather than popular songs or … Read More

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Live Review: 2018 JazzMi Jazz Festival

The Art Ensemble of Chicago in full cry, especially on a 50th-anniversary tour, is a powerful way to kick off a jazz festival. That said, if you have just flown in to Milan from the west coast of the United States and have not slept for 27 hours, the AEC can sound a little harsh. … Read More

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Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas/Sound Prints: Scandal (Greenleaf)

In a press release, Dave Douglas lays out the reasoning behind the title of this second Sound Prints album, Scandal. “We’re not playing by the traditional, or school-taught, rules of jazz,” the trumpeter-composer writes. It is scandalous, he explains further, in today’s ever-more-unpredictable climate, “to question everything about the assumptions made in improvisation,” an activity … Read More

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Louis Armstrong Legacy Monthly Jazz Jam
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