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allaboutjazz.com | John Eyles
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Sarah Hennies, Richard Valitutto: SOVT Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1979. She started playing drums when she was nine years old; in her teens she played drums with local college punk rock bands. She attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before receiving a Master's degree from University of California, San Diego.
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Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Jo David Meyer Lysne: For Renstemt Klaver For as long as it has existed, it seems as if the piano has been subject to opinions and experiments of various types. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the player piano was a popular self-playing piano with a mechanism that operated the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls to play popular tunes.
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1 month ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | John Eyles
Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » Another Timbre Changes In various ways the three recordings below are very different from one another and may surprise some listeners who think they know what to expect from the Another Timbre label.
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2 months ago | 
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Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Barb Jungr and her Trio featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelu... In 1984, Barb Jungr's first album Bouquet of Barbs (Magnet) was released soon after she had turned thirty; she was credited with writing eight of that album's twelve tracks. In 2025, Jungr's album Hallelujah On Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen was released.
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2 months ago | 
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Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance Formed in Oslo, Norway, in 2003, the piano trio In The Country has featured its founding members, pianist Morten Qvenild, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Pal Hausken, ever since.
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2 months ago | 
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Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » Two Contrasting Albums on Another Timbre? On the surface, the latest batch of releases from the Another Timbre label looks pretty much as expected, with each sleeve having the label's usual front cover format of a monochrome photograph of a landscape or work of art beneath which is printed the composer's name beneath which the album title beneath which the performers' names.
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2 months ago | 
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Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now Although the all-Norwegian Kjetil Mulelid Trio has been in existence since 2016, And Now is only the group's fourth album to date. The trio's previous three albums, Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House (2017), What You Thought Was Home (2019) and Who Do You Love The Most?
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
allaboutjazz.com | John Eyles
In the Hat Hut site which systematically lists all the Ezz-thetics releases to date, the two albums below are completely surrounded by albums of music by now-deceased jazz icons who recorded it decades ago— Paul Bley in 1962, John Coltrane in 1962 too, Albert Ayler in 1964, Cecil Taylor in 1980 and Steve Lacy in 1984. So it seems somewhat incongruous to report that the albums below were recorded in 2021 and 2022.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
allaboutjazz.com | John Eyles
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984 Over two decades after the untimely death from liver cancer of soprano saxophonist par excellence Steve Lacy, it seems remarkable that Live Lugano 1984 has been released for the very first time by First Visit, over forty years after it was recorded live by Mario Conforti in Lugano, Switzerland, on September 24, 1984.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
allaboutjazz.com | John Eyles
Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » Two First Visits From ezz-thetics So far, ezz-thetics' label First Visit (motto: First Visit archive offers previously unreleased recordings of historic and musical importance) has lived up to expectations with historic recordings from Cecil Taylor (two albums), Anthony Braxton, Albert Ayler (two) and Steve Lacy making the juices of classic jazz fans flow.
