All About Jazz Album Reviews

Dave Hanson: Blues Sky

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:42:06 +0000

Dave Hanson opens his Blue Sky with a joyful barnburner, "Two Masters," a tip of the hat to Bill Evans and Chick Corea, two of the biggest names in piano jazz... [ read more ]]]>

KALI Trio: The Playful Abstract

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:42:02 +0000

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm Records has become a go-to label for hypnotic groove enthusiasts. Established in 2006, its artists share a focus on uncommon time signatures and post-minimalist composition but interpret them in strikingly different ways... [ read more ]]]>

Keri Johnsrud / Shawn Maxwell: C8H10N4O2

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:41:57 +0000

Keri Johnsrud is a master of subtlety. She delivers intricate songs with elegance and grace, making them sound deceptively effortless. Saxophonist Shawn Maxwell is one of the most innovative members of the Chicago creative music scene... [ read more ]]]>

Satoko Fujii: Altitude 1100 Meters

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:41:53 +0000

Satoko Fujii still finds new avenues down which to take her invigorating music. For the first time she has composed for a string ensemble, though the inclusion of her own piano, as well as the drums of regular collaborator Akira Horikoshi, swiftly usher this set out of the chamber and into a more utilitarian space... [ read more ]]]>

Luca Dell'Anna: Tactile

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:41:59 +0000

Luca Dell'Anna draws from a rich tapestry of musical traditions. His earliest influences came from his grandfather, whose accordion playing was rooted in Italian folk music. At home, his father's diverse record collection introduced him to the works of Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Johann Sebastian Bach... [ read more ]]]>

Leslie Pintchik: Prayer For What Remains

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:41:55 +0000

Leslie Pintchik abandoned a promising career as an educator at New York's Columbia University in favor of writing and playing piano full-time. What has become clear since then, and especially on her eighth album, Prayer for What Remains, is that academia's loss is beyond any doubt the jazz world's gain... [ read more ]]]>

Jo David Meyer Lysne: For Renstemt Klaver

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:41:53 +0000

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Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:42:02 +0000

Buck Hill, who did a forty-year stint working for the Post Office while releasing eleven excellent recordings--including his top ten album of the year material swan song, Relax (Severn, 2006) while working the day job that provided the bread and butter for the table... [ read more ]]]>

Eric Jacobson: Heading Home

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:41:58 +0000

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Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:41:53 +0000

Perception Trio's The Wicked Crew for the first time. But the ethereal sensations grow rather than dissipate with repeated listenings, making for an all-encompassing, lasting impression... [ read more ]]]>

Billy Hart: Just

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:42:04 +0000

Billy Hart's album, The quartet has been working together for over twenty years and has rightly morphed from a collective to the one steered by Hart... [ read more ]]]>

Jacob Chung: The Sage

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:42:00 +0000

Jacob Chung lends credence to a speculative yet widely held belief that contempory jazz continues to grow and prosper north of the American border. Chung is no mere hobbyist, nor are his veteran helpmates --one of whom, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, has been a force on the New York jazz scene for more than four decades, recording at least twenty albums under his name and appearing as a sideman on more than two hundred-fifty others... [ read more ]]]>

Lucas Apostoleris: It's Been Good

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:41:56 +0000

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Sophie Lüssi - Sandra Weiss - Fridolin Blumer - Andreas Wettstein: Atlantic Puffin

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:42:08 +0000

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Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:42:05 +0000

Vijay Iyer and trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith also manifest healthy egos. Accordingly, collaborations like Defiant Life require each man to contour his skills to complement the other sufficiently... [ read more ]]]>

Sergio Pamies: Time to Say

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:41:59 +0000

Sergio Pamies' fourth album, one that is enhanced on its opening and closing numbers, respectively, by the presence of renowned woodwind artists Dave Liebman and Paquito D'Rivera... [ read more ]]]>

Jorge Cariglino: After the Storm

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:41:55 +0000

Jorge Cariglino has maintained an important influence on the jazz game in jny: Madrid for most of his life. He teaches in there, plays with a variety of local and international masters and bolsters an under-reported community to new heights of experimentation and collaboration, despite an unusually slim catalogue of recorded works... [ read more ]]]>

Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:42:06 +0000

Branford Marsalis and his long-standing quartet--pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner--hit the sweet spot again and again and again, reinterpreting and re-imagining Keith Jarrett's epochal 1974 ECM classic, Belonging... [ read more ]]]>

: Another Timbre Changes

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:42:04 +0000

John Butcher, Phil Minton, Rhodri Davies and Evan Parker, all of whom featured on one of the label's first six releases; by the label's tenth release, pianist John Tilbury, a member of AMM, appeared playing a John Cage composition among others, a sign of things to come such as the label's Wandelweiser box set--relevant to the first album below..... [ read more ]]]>

Chris Varga: Breathe

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:42:02 +0000

jny: Seoul, South Korea, is probably not the recommended way of raising the profile in the United States. But vibraphonist Chris Varga, who worked the jazz scene in Chicago during the '90s, made that trans-Pacific move and set himself up as a busy and prolific player in Korea's vibrant jazz scene... [ read more ]]]>