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1 week 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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1 month 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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2 months ago |
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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2 months ago |
asiw.co.uk | Dan Ford |Nigel Jarrett
Before the 1960s – and a while after that in most places – a jazz piano trio consisted of a pianist doing nearly all the work and a bassist and drummer simply underpinning the tempo and rhythm. Now and then, the last two were allotted solo spots, often out of deference to skill sets buried in routine and repetitive accompaniment. Everything changed with the Bill Evans Trio.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Nigel Jarrett
An author bold enough to decide on the most significant individuals and happenings in his zone of interest and write a book about them might be thought vindicated, to his own satisfaction at least, by a decision to update it. That’s to say, it’s a moveable feast.
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