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2 weeks ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
Australian jazz composer Jenna Cave identifies the concept of “grief literacy”, which might be defined as the means of giving voice to heartbreak and distress resulting from the death of someone close. In 2022, aged 38, she became a single parent to her three-year-old daughter after her husband committed suicide. In this commissioned suite of six songs, she articulates and processes the traumas of bereavement.
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3 weeks ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
In 2024, having spluttered speechlessly at the non-jazz headline acts of major jazz festivals for several years, I came across Montreux and its 58th manifestation. Its promoters boasted it would “span all genres”. All genres of what? With a line-up that included Alice Cooper, P J Harvey, Kraftwerk, Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Sting and Massive Attack, one was entitled to ask. Not all genres of jazz, then.
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1 month ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded by Mareks Ameriks in 2017, are made completely analogue and eventually cut directly to lacquer. But even those that go through the digital process are, the company says, carefully mastered to preserve a warmth of sound. The current album bears that out.
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2 months ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’s third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As a concept, it’s played out on a broad canvas that encircles and and engages with black historicity. It might have been just angry.
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Feb 7, 2025 |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain respectability by association but latterly in the hope that something different or revelatory will emerge. An album of 11 Schubert lieder is performed here by a trio whose classical music component is embodied in a composer (Bolcsó) and a harpist (Razvalyaeva). Veronika Harcsa is a jazz singer.
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