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Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity
by Jerome Wilson
Bassist Jeong Lim Yang is a member of the Brooklyn jazz scene who has worked with many different musicians such as Jason Palmer, Oscar Noreiga, and Kenny Wollesen. On her third album as a leader, she uses a quartet combining motion and atmosphere with melodic beauty elements. The quartet has Mat Maneri on viola, ...
Conversations with Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez
by Leo Sidran
To close out the season, here are two compelling and complementary conversations with pianists Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez. Each of their stories is deeply personal, and yet their experiences echo one another beautifully.I interviewed Aaron Parks last January at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, just a few days before he made the ...
Randy Ingram: Aries Dance
by John Chacona
No one would suggest that a car stereo in a rush-hour traffic jam is an ideal environment to evaluate a recording--or even to squeeze much enjoyment out of one. Yet even in this setting the graceful, gliding waltz that opens Randy Ingram's Aries Dance immediately dispelled the frustration and tension of the highway like an offshore ...
Some Overlooked 2024 Releases
by Jerome Wilson
Here are reviews of some of the many worthwhile jazz albums that came out in the latter half of 2024. Leslie Pintchik Prayer For What Remains Pintch Hard Records 2024 The latest album by pianist Leslie Pintchik has a gentle, swinging calm to it. She ...
Ben Goldberg / Todd Sickafoose / Scott Amendola: Here to There
by Mark Corroto
There was a very good reason that James Brown would shout “take me to the bridge." In an interview, he explained: “I heard someone use that expression maybe 45 years ago, referring to the middle part of a song, and I changed it to mean a release." Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, bassist Todd Sickafoose and drummer Scott ...
Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)
by Jerome Wilson
As Darius Jones' new album shows, even the most harrowing music can serve as a form of healing, The alto saxophonist has released a trio album that draws from his attempts to deal with personal mental trauma via a daunting musical journey that begins in screams and ends with serenity. This album is the ...
Jason Stein: Anchors
by Jerome Wilson
Six years after releasing his previous album, bass clarinetist Jason Stein returns with a new trio recording that goes outside the realm of conventional jazz. He has been undergoing healing therapy in those six years to combat physical injury and this album is inspired by that process. Aided by bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Gerald Cleaver, ...
Riley Mulherkar is in pursuit of a feeling
by Leo Sidran
Riley Mulherkar grew up in jny: Seattle, the Pacific Northwest enclave that has been home to so many musical innovators over the years. He went to Garfield High School, a school that has fostered countless talents going all the way back to Quincy Jones who was himself a young trumpet player at the school in the ...
Orrin Evans: Walk a Mile in His Shoe
by David Bixler
The shoes that grace the cover of Orrin Evans' new record are special shoes from his childhood that were necessitated by being born with Neurofibromatosis. The record is called Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani Records) and the shoes are a reminder of his condition and the impact that this neurological disorder has had on ...
Various Guitarists: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I
by Glenn Astarita
Produced by laudable guitarist/composer Joel Harrison and the Alternative Guitar Summit, The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. 1 is a compelling exploration of the intersections between jazz, classical and world music traditions--think of it as a musical United Nations, where six-stringed diplomats from various genres come together to harmonize. In the album liners, Harrison states, ...
