More than three decades after his earliest recordings, keyboardist and composer Jeff Lorber has come full circle. His new CD, “Now is the Time”, delves back into his early catalog and reinvents some of the most compelling compositions from the Jeff Lorber Fusion heyday. This new incarnation of the Fusion includes luminaries like bassist Jimmy …
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New Music – Jazz: American, French and Serbian – Bob
Joe Chambers is one of the drummers from the Fifties and Sixties who, along with Max Roach and Art Blakey, has influenced an entire generation of drummers. Archie Shepp, in fact, compared Chambers’ qualities as a sensitive yet dynamic drummer to another influential drummer, Roy Haynes. For his new CD, “Horace to Max”, Chambers has …
New Music: Britos, One for All, Ray Blue – Bob
Imagine a violinist, born in South America, equally adept at playing classical, jazz, Latin idioms and music for films; a musician with a sound that is at home in a symphony hall or on 52nd Street; an artist who has worked with a staggering array of far-flung superstars, such as Duke Ellington, Astor Piazzolla, Bebo …
New Music from Terrasson, HCOD, Others – Bob
Ever since Jacky Terrasson burst onto the jazz scene in 1993 by winning the Thelonius Monk Piano Competition, the Berlin-born, Paris-raised, New York-based pianist extraordinaire has consistently recorded richly refined and remarkably free-spirited music. His new disc, “Push”, features a new working trio that includes recent Monk Competition winner Ben Williams on bass, Jamire Williams …
New Music – Nnenna, Trombone Shorty, Stanton Moore – Bob
Esteemed jazz vocalist and six-time Grammy nominee Nnenna Freelon offers up her first studio album in five years, “Homefree”, a soulful swinging disc that she calls her “home brew.” The collection is comprised largely of contemporary interpretations of classic American Songbook tunes, along with a new original and spirited arrangements of two anthems. “Most of …
New Music from Tom Harrell, JCLO, Others – Bob
Hailed by Newsweek for his pure melodic genius, Tom Harrell is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. Each of his discs has found its way onto various critics “Top Ten” lists worldwide. His newest, “Roman Nights”, is the third CD to feature his current …
New Music from Mehldau, Mose, Taylor, Garcia and Holland – Bob
Although Brad Mehldau is best known as a jazz composer and improviser, he has written several long-form compositions and songs, including those for orchestra and voice. Highway Rider is a new double-disc set of original work by the pianist, composer and arranger which features a chamber orchestra, along with regular trio mates Jeff Ballard on …
New Music from Anat Cohen, Chris Tedesco, Carolyn Leonhart – Bob
Anat Cohen is a veteran of five residencies at the renowned Village Vanguard in New York and is the first female horn player and first Israeli to headline and record there. Her new release, Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard, coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Vanguard, recorded on the final night of a …