Robert Jospé Quartet, The Night Sky Review Robert Jospé Quartet, The Night Sky: Rhythm Is The Core By Nolan DeBuke On The Night Sky, the Robert Jospé quartet treats rhythm as a distinction that matters. […]
Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, London Vocal Project, Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler) Review Lines in Motion: The Layered Ensemble Design of Vital Spark by Ferell Aubre Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler) brings together […]
Aubrey Johnson, The Lively Air Review Aubrey Johnson’s The Lively Air – A Composer’s Arrival by Sylvannia Garutch If Aubrey Johnson’s 2020 debut Unraveled felt like a promise interrupted by the sudden silence of the pandemic, her […]
The Scott Silbert Quartet, Dream Dancing: Celebrating Zoot Sims at 100 Review In the Space Between the Quarter Notes: Scott Silbert’s Dream Dancing By Nolan DeBuke The Scott Silbert Quartet’s Dream Dancing is a lineage-specific […]
Alex Sipiagin, Live at Smalls Review Alex Sipiagin: Form Creates Live at Smalls by Nolan DeBuke Alex Sipiagin’s Live at Smalls documents a working quintet of Seamus Blake (tenor saxophone), David Kikoski (piano), Boris Kozlov […]
Randy Napoleon, Waking Dream Review Randy Napoleon, Waking Dream: The Music of Gregg Hill and Randy Napoleon by Ferell Aubre On Waking Dream: The Music of Gregg Hill and Randy Napoleon, five distinct guitar voices […]
Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+ Review Pat Metheny’s Architecture on Side-Eye III+: Compositional And Improvisational Continuity by Nolan DeBuke The governing logic of Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye III+ is compositional continuity. Across eight Metheny originals, written melody […]
Interplay Jazz Orchestra, Bite Your Tongue Review Canon as Framework: Interplay Jazz Orchestra’s Bite Your Tongue Big Band Statement By Ferell Aubre On Bite Your Tongue, Interplay Jazz Orchestra positions itself squarely within the lineage […]
Kurt Elling, WDR Big Band, In the Brass Palace Review Load-Bearing Design: Kurt Elling & the WDR Big Band Construct In the Brass Palace By Ferell Aubre Kurt Elling & the WDR Big Band present […]
Wanees Zarour, Silwan Review Modal Architecture With Tempered Jazz Structures: Wanees Zarour’s Silwan By Nolan Debuke In Silwan, Wanees Zarour undertakes a creative structural task of integrating maqam-based modal language into a modern jazz harmonic […]
The Jazz Word 2021
