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Nasheet Waits’ New York Love Letter
NEW YORK LOVE LETTER (BITTER SWEET) / Snake Stance. Snake Hip Waltz. Moon Child. The Hard Way AW (Waits). Liberia. Central Park West (John Coltrane) / Mark Turner, t-sax; Steve Nelson, vib; Rashaan...
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Tarbaby’s “You Think This America”
YOU THINK THIS AMERICA / Dee Dee (Ornette Coleman). Mirror of Youth (David Murray). Red Door. Reconciliation. Betcha By Golly Wow. Blues (When it Comes). Kush. Richard. Comme il Faut (composers...
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Wei & Monteiro Play Jazz Classics
THE NEW JERSEY SESSIONS / Dewey Square (Charlie Parker). A Weaver of Dreams (Victor Young). I Want to Talk About You (Billy Eckstine). Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You (Marvin Fisher). When Sunny...
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Oùat’s Elastic Bricks
ELASTIC BRICKS / Shall We. Mother and Son. Dala-Floda. Tibia of the Mole. Weihnachten. Borghini Balade (Joel Grip). Sommer. Height of Nothingness (Sieger-Grip). Topsy (Simon Sieger) / Qùat: Simon...
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Korstick Plays the Brahms Concerti
BRAHMS: Piano Concerti Nos. 1 & 2 / Michael Korstick, pno; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Constantin Trinks, cond . Hänssler Classic HC23082 Having give the world one of the very best sets...
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Matt Wilson is in “Good Trouble”
GOOD TROUBLE / Fireplace. CommUnity Spirit (Matt Wilson). Albert’s Alley (Jeff Lederer). Be That As it May (Akihito Gorai). Good Trouble Suite: RBG; Walk With the Wind; Good Trouble (Wilson-Lederer)....
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Lisa Rich’s Stunning New Album
LONG AS YOU’RE LIVING / Long As You’re Living (Priester-Turrentine-Brown). Throw It Away (Abby Lincoln). When I Look in Your Eyes (Bricusse-Harrison). New Morning Blues (Clayton-Granelli). Lonely...
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Rediscovering Anton Webern
J.S. BACH-WEBERN: A Musical Offering: Ricerare.1 WEBERN: 2 Songs for Mixed Choir & 5 Instruments.3,6 5 Movements for String Orchestra.5 2 Songs for Voice & 8 Instruments.2,5 5 Pieces for...
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The Forgotten Classical Satirist
If you were asked to name the best classical music satirists if the 20th century, the first name on your lips would undoubtedly be the late Peter Schickele, a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach, with Spike Jones and...
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A Great Forgotten Tenor
A friend of mine sent me a CD which included a large number of recordings, most of them acoustic, of rare recordings from the first 34 years of the 20th century. Several of them impressed me, but none...
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Sorabji’s Vocal and Chamber Works
SORABJI: Désir épardu for piano.8 Il tessuto d’arabeschi for flute & string quartet.1,10 Le mauvais jardinier for voice & piano.2,8 Frammento cantato for baritone & piano.6,8 Fantasiettina...
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Joel Thome’s Excellent Adventure
SCHOENBERG: Pierrot Lunaire.1 DALLAPICCOLA: Concerto per la notte di Natale 1956.2 Parole di San Paolo3 / 1Maureen McNalley, mez; Sue Ann Kahn, pic/fl; Anand Devandra, cl/bs-cl; Eric Rosenblith,...
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Michael Pagán’s Neo-Bop CD
PAGANOVA / Burn It Forward. Deep in My Soul. Guess Whose Blues. Just the Other Day. Napoli (Michael Pagán). Eiderdown (Steve Swallow). Where Do We Go from Here? (Kenny Wheeler). Gaviota (Clare...
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More Gudmundsen-Holmgreen String Quartets!
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: String Quartets Nos. 7-10 / Nordic String Qrt / Dacapo 8.226218 My regular readers know, at this point, how much I admire the music of the late Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. His...
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The Straight Horn of Rudi Mahall
THE STRAIGHT HORN OF RUDI MAHALL / Bebop (Dizzy Gillespie). Good Bait (Tadd Dameron). Sechseinhalb Brüder (Mahall-Giuffre-Mulligan). The Mystery Song (Duke Ellington). Petite Fleur (Sidney Bechet)....
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Chick Corea’s Final Album
REMEMBRANCE / The Otter Creek Incident. Lucky Bounce. Juno. Small Potatoes (Béla Fleck). Impromptus: I. Cheshire; II. Mock Turtle; III. March Hare; IV. Gentlemen Fish; V. Jabberwocky (Fleck-Corea)....
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Introducing Tomeka Reid
3 + 3 / Turning Toward – Sometimes You Just Have to Run With It. Sauntering With Mr. Brown. Exploring Outward/Funambulist Fever / Tomeka Reid Qrt: Reid, vc; Mary Halvorson, el-gt; Jason Roebke, bs;...
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David Murray’s “Francesca”
FRANCESCA / Francesca. Ninno. Shenzhen. Come and Go. Am Gone Get Some. Free Mingus. Cycles and Seasons (David Murray). Richard’s Tune (Don Pullen) / David Murray, t-sax/bs-cl; Marta Sanchez, pno; Luke...
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A Neglected ‘20s Live Wire in Jazz
This is the story of a good early-1920s New Orleans jazz musician who eventually became a Keeper of the Flame for Crescent City music at a time when it was commercially viable but put him in the...
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Thumbscrew’s “Multicolored Midnight”
MULTICOLORED MIDNIGHT / I’m a Senator! Shit Changes. Fidgety. Capiscum Annuum. Should Be Cool (Michael Formanek). Song for Mr. Humphries. Future Reruns & Nostalgia. Should Be Cool. Brutality and...
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