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Trombonist Ryan Keberle and Collectiv do Brasil explore the music of one of the world’s greatest living musical masters with “Choro das Aguas.” The album—Keberle’s third with the Sao Paulo pianist/arranger Felipe Silveira, bassist Felipe Brisola, and drummer Paulinho Vicente—features the compositions by Brazilian jazz and popular tunesmith Ivan Lins, marking the composer’s 80th-birthday year. “Ivan Lins’s songwriting stands among the giants,” Keberle explains. “His music is a masterful fusion of sophistication and soul.”
“I Thought About You” is a major remixed, remastered, and extended release of Irish jazz guitar master Louis Stewart’s 1977 quartet album with the British pianist John Taylor and the American rhythm team of bassist Sam Jones and drummer Billy Higgins. Recorded when Louis was working with Ronnie Scott’s house band, the session coincided with pianist Cedar Walton’s quartet stint at Scott’s London club. Walton’s sidemen Jones and Higgins so impressed the guitarist, that he invited them to record with him and Taylor. The enhanced reissue uses the original London masters and adds two extra tracks.
Also this week, “Simplicity” is the title of a previously unreleased 1993 CD under the leadership of pianist Dom Salvador, with Bill Moring on bass and Vanderlei Pereira on drums; guitarist and composer Kevin Brunkhorst demonstrates the full breadth of his melodic sensibility on “After the Fire,” a collection of seven original compositions that reflect on recent global and personal challenges with surprising warmth and optimism; and after decades as an in-demand composer and arranger, and co-leader of Denver’s acclaimed H2 Big Band, pianist Dave Hanson unveils his debut quartet recording, “Blues Sky.”
