Reviews

Bria Skonberg: Bria

One can’t evaluate an album according to what it isn’t. Still, it’s hard to evade the fact that Bria, trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg’s fourth … Read More

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Dave Douglas and Frank Woeste: Dada People

Produced with the support of the French American Jazz Exchange, Dada People is trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Frank Woeste’s paean to surrealist photographer Man … Read More

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David Smith Quintet: Anticipation

With Anticipation by the David Smith Quintet comes another release from the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label, “an independent and artist-run label committed to creative and … Read More

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Claudio Roditi: Simpatico

There is a coterie of important Brazilian jazz musicians who keep reappearing on one another’s albums. Four of them are on Simpatico: trumpeter Claudio Roditi, … Read More

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Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes

Tomasz Stanko began his career as an ECM recording artist with 1975’s Balladyna, a post-Ornette outburst that gives little hint of the kind of trumpeter … Read More

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