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Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time
Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time Delmark DE 2013 Compact Disc (2011) The debut album of The Jason Stein Quartet, The Story This Time, brings together Chicago bass clarinetist Jason Stein with three of his favorite improvisers. With Joshua Abrams on bass, Frank Rosaly on drums, and Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone and…
Jim Holman – Explosion!
Jim Holman – Explosion! Delmark DE 2014 Compact Disc (2012) Jazz pianist Jim Holman explodes on this straight ahead blowing date, his debut as leader. As a native of Chicago, Jim Holman has been performing in the city’s finest jazz clubs since he was sixteen. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s jazz studies program…
Jeff Parker Trio – Bright Light In Winter
Jeff Parker Trio – Bright Light In Winter Delmark DE 2015 Compact Disc (2012) Bright Light In Winter is the long-awaited third album by Chicago guitarist Jeff Parker. With his associates Chris Lopes (bass) and Chad Taylor (drums), this trio continues their examination of our post-modern musical universe via tuneful compositions by all three members,…
Ronnie Mathews – At Caf? Des Copains
Ronnie Mathews – At Caf? Des Copains Sackville SKCD2-2026 Compact Disc
Anthony Braxton – Trio And Duet
Anthony Braxton – Trio And Duet Sackville SK 3007 Compact Disc No musician in jazz has enjoyed so complex a relationship with the form and its history as saxophonist Anthony Braxton. He has been celebrated and vilified as the music’s figure of radical advance (and still is), while regularly asserting his relationship with tradition by…
The Buddy Tate Quartet – Texas Tenor
The great Texas tenor delivers the goods on this 1978 quartet session featuring the same rhythm?section of Wray Downes (piano), Dave Young (bass) and Pete Magadini (drums) that played with?Don Menza on last month?s reissue of Bones Blues (Sackville 4004). Tate?s first big break came in?1939 when at the age of 26 he joined the…
Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystals – Aquarius
Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystals – Aquarius Delmark DE 5004 Compact Disc (2013) Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystals project explores water and glass chemistry of flute and vibes, by combining the creative flutist with young luminary Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone. Ice Crystal’s sound reminds us of the legendary collaboration between flutist Eric Dolphy and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson,…
Keefe Jackson’s Likely So – A Round Goal
Keefe Jackson’s Likely So – A Round Goal Delmark DE 5009 Compact Disc (2013) The music of Keefe Jackson’s all-reed group Likely So is both a new direction and a continuation of his abiding mission: combining composition and improvisation with an emphasis on the interaction of the individual musicians. On A Round Goal, this leads…