BEST REISSUESThe Best Reissues on Bandcamp: July/August 2022By Dean Van Nguyen · August 30, 2022 This jazz-heavy edition of our best reissues round-up …
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The arrival of Fadenschlag, from Swiss jazz guitarist Mareille Merck and her trio Larus, reminds me that there was a time a few months ago that I said yes to a record label from that […]
When Pat Metheny was growing up in the small Missouri town of Lee’s Summit, his family’s home stood within can’t-even-hear-yourself-shouting distance …
We all know our father’s jazz records were about the sounds of acoustic bass, saxophone, and piano. In response to all that unamplified acousticness, …
It’s the best selling jazz album ever, one of the most influential too, arguably the one that produced a shift from riffing on chord based tunes to …
It’s the best selling jazz album ever, one of the most influential too, arguably the one that produced a shift from riffing on chord based tunes to …
Contemporary jazz, by design, can be easily divided into things you’ve heard before and things you haven’t heard before. If that sounds like oversimplifying, and maybe it is, then think of a jazz album that isn’t either a tribute to past traditions and compositions or a venture out into the unknown. That latter group, the one that drives the momentum of jazz, can be problematic for casual listeners (think of free or experimental jazz genres), but there are times when it came be merely original, as is the case with guitarist Matt Panayides and his new album Field Theory. Matt Panayides isn’t so far out there that you’ll wonder if he’ll ever come back, but he is making jazz that defies description. It isn’t outwardly strange or different music, but his quintet (Rich Perry on tenor sax, Robert Sabin on bass, Mark Ferber on drums and–here’s a twist–Matt Vashlishan on wind synth) is full of ideas, ones that escort you into a neighborhood where all of the houses look just a tad different than normal, a collection of shapes and light that inform you of your sudden departure from familiarity. This is the third album for Matt Panayides, but his […]
This might be a case of everything old being new again, but I waited so long to review Then: Jazz Standards Vol.1 from the Henry Robinett Quartet (website) that Then Again: Jazz Standards Vol. 2 arrived in my mail box. At first I thought the publicist sent me the same album twice–that has happened on quite a few occasions–but then I noticed the slight differences in the cover. The first volume, which had receded deep into the review pile, was so good, and I kept trying to share that but a lot of things got in the way, such as getting this year’s Buyers Guide out to the world. So if it’s not too late to save face with the Henry Robinett Quartet, I’d like to go back and state that Vol. 1 is a winner, a masterful outing from a very talented jazz guitarist. Vol. 2 is equally intriguing and is consistent enough with the first volume that this could have been released as a double album, which has been the trend this season. But that wouldn’t be telling you the real story behind Then and Then Again, which is that both albums were recorded twenty years ago. “Honestly, […]
My latest Vinyl Anachronist music review is now live at Part-Time Audiophile. You can read it here.
My latest Vinyl Anachronist music review is now live at Part-Time Audiophile. You can read it here.
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