Tom Lippincott, Ode to the Possible Review Tom Lippincott’s Ode to the Possible Through Motion By Nolan DeBuke Recurring drum figures, doubled melodies, group improvisational swells, and angular compaction and releases give Ode to the […]
Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1 Review Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Moods from Live at the Village Vanguard By Nolan DeBuke Immanuel Wilkins’ Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1 documents a […]
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 […]
The Jazz Word 2021
