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February 2024 | The best new jazz albums(Jazzwise) |
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 Topic: February 2024 | The best new jazz albums(Jazzwise)Posted: 24 Jan 2024 at 6:44am |
Owl SongNonesuch This album uncovers a whole, tender world in the act of playing his instrument and its emotional vocabulary for him, having stripped away its distracting power. Owl Song explores his fundamental sound, squeezing out notes with a mournful, broken beauty as unmistakable as Miles’ muted, masculine soul... Joey Alexander ContinuanceMack Avenue Joey Alexander's virtuosity and the warm embrace of jazz's celebrity aristocracy could have made him a retro artist, but he's already streets ahead of that... Chick Corea & Orchestra da Camera Della Sardegna SardiniaCandid The Orchestra da Camera Della Sardegna perform Mozart as written, while Corea, who in another life could equally have been a major concert pianist, personalises his performance in a fascinating way, sometimes counterpointing, doubling or harmonising the orchestral tuttis, embellishing his solo lines and improvising the cadenzas, all touches Mozart himself is believed to have done... Paul Dunmall Bright Light A Joyous CelebrationDiscus Music Drake is a powerhouse throughout, driving the performances with muscular verve and a deep sense of swing. The longest piece is a spontaneous group improvisation, which finds its way into a loping, reggae-ish vamp, with Kane eagerly and adroitly jumping on Drake’s deep groove. It comes as little surprise to discover all tracks are first takes. When something’s right, it’s right... Mary Halvorson CloudwardNonesuch Cloudward marks a leap forward into a new, more intuitive world. Unlike Amaryllis, Cloudward was thoroughly road-tested, so there’s an intimacy, a confidence this multi-gifted band has in its relationship with this often complex, yet ever-accessible music. Jasper Høiby's Three Elements EarthnessEdition Records The intricate, information-dense linear arrangements and tightly plotted rhythm tracks that characterised Phronesis are here relaxed so that the music is allowed to flow and breathe, and the musicians audibly revel in the interplay allowed by this more expansive approach, especially in the short, mood-heavy improvised interludes between the main events... Ethan Iverson Technically AcceptableBlue Note Not everyone can be a Milhaud, Bernstein or Gershwin when fusing together ‘concert’ music and elements of jazz but Iverson with his through-composed three-movement piano sonata that closes the album – has done an excellent job. It’s an enjoyably colourful work that’s seamless in its joins between European and American art music. Andrea Keller Trio Strings and Voices Flicker and Polar BirdSelf-release/Bandcamp Tracks featuring the trio of trumpeter Miroslav Bukovsky and saxophonist John Mackey linger longer - the attention-grabbing 'Polar Bird' manages to be both intimate and immense - while 'I Am A Little Church', all spacious grace and yearning vocals, feel cleansing, powerful. An essential work by Andrea Keller, a truly extraordinary artist... Billy Marrows and A Grande Familia PenelopeSelf-release/Bandcamp The full band tracks are interspersed with solo guitar pieces that condense Marrow’s contrasting preoccupation with melodic directness and harmonic and rhythmic ingenuity. All proceeds go to the World Child Cancer charity which is an excellent reason for purchase, but the music is reward enough... Luiz Millan Brazilian MatchJazz Station Records This is an album that functions well as both quality background music and absorbing foreground music from a singer songwriter who can safely be mentioned in the same breath as Jobim, Bonfá, and Lins... Verneri Pohjola Monkey MindEdition Records Høiby’s inimitable tone, precision and sheer relentlessness are an important ingredient throughout, patiently holding things together in tandem with Louhivuoro and there are notably tight trio sections with trumpet and then piano in the middle of 'Bebe'... Anaïs Reno At PizzaExpress Live - In LondonPX Records As anyone who heard Swiss-born, NYC-based vocalist Anaïs Reno’s debut album, Lovesome Thing, will know, her musicality at the age of 16 (having co-arranged all of the material with pianist Emmet Cohen) was nothing short of remarkable. Reno’s follow-up release on PX Records, which opens with one of Cole Porter’s most memorable standards, ‘It's De-Lovely’, from his 1936 musical, Red Hot and Blue, merely serves to confirm all of her great qualities: flawless pitch, impeccable time feel and a pleasingly rich timbral quality. Julia Werup Dear FrancesStunt 'Bird' is a well-told, insanely catchy account of a relationship in trouble; 'Rain' is beautifully terse; 'Just Let Him Know You Love Him' is a deliciously spicy jazz throb, all empty space and woozy electronics; and 'Time Of Life' is melodic glitchtronica that demonstrates Blachman's talents as an arranger and producer; I would love to hear him working with more artists... Edited by snobb - 24 Jan 2024 at 6:47am |
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