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4 days ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Matt Ulery: Mother Harp With 15 albums of adventurous composition and daredevil artistry behind him, Chicago-based bassist-composer-bandleader Matt Ulery is, as they say back home, no slouch. And on his 16th, the raucously-inflamed and infectious Mother Harp, he follows his rock 'n' roll heart to the finish line and beyond.
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6 days ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Sylvie Courvoisier Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells Guitarist and sound-chaser Mary Halvorsonnever fails to hypnotize. Add the equally hypnotic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and beauties like Bone Bells materialize to shift your news-exhausted consciousness to greater possibilities. Bone Bells does that. Bone Bells does it often.
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1 week ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
As a thriving collective, the 3 Cohens have recorded four outstanding studio albums over the first quarter of the 21st century: the self-produced One (2003), 2007's Braid, 2011's Family and 2013's Tightrope, (last three released by Anzic Records, the label founded by clarinetist Anat Cohen with kindred-spirit producer-collaborator Oded Lev-Ari).
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2 weeks ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Charles Mingus: In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts Here, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is some seriously swinging, seriously rowdy Charles Mingus.
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3 weeks ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Lou Reed, Ornette Coleman and David Bowie: After Walki...
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1 month ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging For his Blue Note debut, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his long-standing quartet—pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner—hit the sweet spot again and again and again, reinterpreting and re-imagining Keith Jarrett's epochal 1974 ECM classic, Belonging.
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1 month ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Artemis: Arboresque The virtuoso musicians of Artemis—pianist Renee Rosnes trumpeter Ingrid Jensen saxophonist Nicole Glover bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller —get down to business quick on their third for Blue Note Arboresque.
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1 month ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Nicola Miller: Living Things It is more than fair enough to say that Nova Scotia-based saxophonist/composer Nicola Miller's vision and understanding of things is peppered with oddly curious axioms and an astute ear for the undertow that pulls us all further out to sea or crashing into the breakers.
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2 months ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking In Tongues There is something wistful and empowering about wanderlust pianist/composer/electronics Rachel Eckroth's acoustic sensibility that holds a lot of sway with many of her listeners.
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2 months ago | 
allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Jon Irabagon: Server Farm Warning! Warning! Heads up! Spoiler alert! Server Farm has the potential to take your head to some random places. Some alarming (as all artists should be these days), Some cacophonous. Some claustrophobic. Others freeing, fleeting, fervent.
