«Solo for Trio» is Atle Nymo’s first album under his own name, and at the ripe age of 42, the leader at first glance may appear as a late bloomer, a young veteran or possibly something in between. The truth, however, is slightly different....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Through his six recordings as a bandleader, tenor talent Eric Wyatt has basically been performing unspoken tributes to Sonny Rollins. Wyatt calls Rollins his actual/musical godfather and has a way of injecting his passion for bebop and affection for geniuses like Rollins, Charlie Parker, and Pharaoh ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Grits, Beans And Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969 (Remastered)
"Tubby Hayes is undoubtedly one of the most important, influential and ground-breaking UK jazz musicians of all time. During the ‘50s and early ‘60s, Hayes had stood apart from many of his UK-based contemporaries, displaying a self-confidence and virtuoso musical delivery that placed him ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Albums by saxophone, bass and drums trios include some of the classics of post-bop jazz. Sonny Rollins set the bar high with A Night At The Village Vanguard in 1957. Albert Ayler raised it even higher with Spiritual Unity in 1964. Those discs are tough acts to follow. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Inspiration comes from many sources. For legendary drummer Al Foster, it stems from the two groups of people who are closest to him: the jazz giants he’s been honored to play with (and who, though he’d be the last to admit it, have been blessed to work with him); and, first and foremost, his family. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins loaned his flair for the dramatic to the score for the film Alfie, accompanying the story of what the liner notes describe as "the involuntary education of a hipster." Arranged by Oliver Nelson, the soundtrack follows the character's evolution ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Pannonica (Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IX)
Die „Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic“ widmen sich in der mittlerweile neunten Ausgabe der jüdischen Baroness und Millionenerbin Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Stücke von Musikern, welche die „Jazz-Baronin“ über viele Jahre mit Geld, Unterkunft, Rat und Freundschaft ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The State Of The Tenor (Remastered)
From November 14 to 16 in 1985, the Joe Henderson trio held court at the Village Vanguard for a legendary 10-set engagement, some of which was recorded for Blue Note and released in 1986 as two volumes under the declarative banner The State of the Tenor. The saxophone titan was 48 at the time, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Epistrophy (Live At The Village Vanguard, New York, NY / 2016)
Like the duo’s acclaimed ECM release Small Town of 2017 – which The Guardian called “wistful and mesmerizing… tonally ingenious and haunting” – the new Epistrophy by guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan was recorded at New York City’s Village Vanguard. The album once again captures ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Space Between is the second album by long-term friends & guitarists Stuart McCallum and Mike Walker. Following 2014’s self-produced Beholden, The Space Between is an album that expresses McCallum and Walker’s abiding love of melody and space, their friendship and respect, and the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul
The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul finds the celebrated Branford Marsalis Quartet at a new peak, addressing a kaleidoscope of moods with inspiration and group commitment. As usual there is compositional input from the veteran members, with Eric Revis supplying the surging “Dance of the Evil ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A BISSEL RHYTHM is composer and clarinetist Paul Green’s PARMA Recordings debut, although it marks his second recorded exploration into the fusion between jazz and Jewish music. A performance at Merkin Concert Hall resulted in the New York Times extolling his talents: "Like a cobra intent on doing some charming of...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
'Live in Europe' crowns what was a momentous year for pianist Fred Hersch. Capturing his trio - with longtime associates, bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson - in peak form, the new album signals a high level mark for an ensemble that has been garnering critical and popular praise for nearly a decade. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
More than any other artist in traditional jazz today, saxophonist/composer/arranger Kenny Garrett and his band are known to entice audiences to want to get up and groove. Be it in Spain where a man from Cameroon leaped up and broke out some African moves then was joined by a young break-dancer, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
While it was captured over the course a single night, there’s a rich lifetime’s worth of music packed into The Iron Man: Live at Smoke. If it’s a slight overstatement to say that the album represents an autobiography in song, that’s only because 82-year-old jazz master Harold Mabern tells his story in every note that he plays. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
If there’s one thing the acclaimed bassist knows, it’s that when it comes to grit there’s no better resource to draw from than his own hometown, Philadelphia. So, McBride turned to one of the city’s most beloved colloquialisms to christen his latest project, Christian McBride’s New Jawn. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
There is a lot to discover in and behind Kevin Hays' piano solo music. It is music that appears to be classical yet deeply breathes in the spirit of jazz. It is the music of a jazz improviser who integrates the vocabulary of various epochs of piano music in an exceptionally natural way, ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Version)
The recordings on "Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album" were made in the mid-1960s during Coltrane's Classic Quartet period and were lost for decades. Deluxe version including seven bonus alternate takes of some of the tracks from the standard edition. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Mit seinem Trio reiht sich JD Allen ein in eine Reihe großer Vorläufer (man denke etwa an Sonny Rollins oder Ornette Coleman) – stilistisch aber ist er sein eigener Herr: Die „New York Times“ charakterisiert ihn treffend als “tenor saxophonist with an enigmatic, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Since 1991 Hammond organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and drummer Bill Stewart have constituted what Jazzstation calls an “…unusual camaraderie of world-class players… Three of the world's best players in the current jazz scene...” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
