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Continue reading →: Jon Bentley: Go Ahead!CELLAR MUSIC (RELEASED MARCH 21, 2025) Jon Bentley’s Go Ahead! took me back in time; a time when the jazz section of record stores and the catalogues of record companies added a new category to their offerings — soul jazz. Although he was born at the tail end of that…
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Continue reading →: 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: InteractionANZIC (RELEASED MARCH 14, 2025) Interaction is an appropriate name for the new recording from the 3 Cohens and the WDR Big Band. There is the intuitive interaction between the three Cohen siblings — Anat on clarinet, Avishai on trumpet and Yuval on soprano sax. There is the international interaction…
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Continue reading →: Rodney Jordan: Memphis BlueBAXTER MUSIC 1004 (RELEASED MARCH 14, 2025) In 2018, the city of Memphis adopted the slogan “Home of Blues, Soul and Rock & Roll.”Did they forget jazz? After all, Memphis boasts a vibrant jazz history thanks Memphians such as Lil Hardin Armstrong, Booker Little, Phineas Newborn and Charles Lloyd to…
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Continue reading →: Caili O’ Doherty: Bluer Than BlueOUTSIDE IN MUSIC (RELEASED MARCH 7, 2025) Like an archeologist unearthing artifacts from an ancient civilization, pianist Caili O’Doherty has discovered treasures from an earlier era of jazz. O’Doherty, who is on a mission to celebrate, preserve and expand the achievements of the unsung women of jazz, rediscovered the music…
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Continue reading →: Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns LockedCELLAR MUSIC (RELEASED FEBRUARY 28) Other than the release date, there is nothing radically new about Horns Locked, the latest release from saxophonists Nick Hempton and Cory Weeds. The recording does not break any new jazz ground. It is not a cross-cultural or cross-genre musical experiment. It is not a…
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Continue reading →: NuMBqMAHAKALA MUSIC 086 (RELEASED FEBRUARY 24, 2025) Conceived and directed by bassist Michael Bisio, NuMBq features a group of master improvisors that achieve a unique balance between music reminiscent of the Third Stream and New Thing movements in jazz. It’s no mystery that the Third Stream influence comes from violist…
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Continue reading →: Noah Preminger: BalladsCHILL TONE RECORDS (RELEASED FEBRUARY 21, 2025) Ballads, the newest release from saxophonist Noah Preminger, promises something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. The old is Preminger’s moving rendition of Gershwin’s 1926 ballad “Someone To Watch Over Me.” The new are four original ballads Preminger wrote for this…
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Continue reading →: MurmurationMAHAKALA MUSIC 082 (RELEASED FEBRUARY 7, 2025) When jazz musicians of any era and style get together, they unknowingly use a concept defined as murmuration to navigate the complexities of collective improvisation. Simply stated, murmuration is the term ornithologist use to describe how a group of starlings can fly together…
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Continue reading →: Sullivan Fortner: Southern NightsARTWORK RECORDS (RELEASED FEBRUARY 14, 2025) Pianist Sullivan Fortner had no idea a weeklong trio residency at The Village Vanguard would lead to his next album, but it did! According to Fortner, The Vanguard sessions were the first time that he, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Marcus Gilmore played together…
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Continue reading →: Remedy: Hipp Hipp Hooray, Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta HippFUNDAJCA SLUCHAJ (RELEASED FEBRUARY 4, 2025) German pianist Jutta Hipp’s life was full of twist and turns. Born in Leipzig, Germany in 1925, she had to secretly listen to her favorite jazz recordings during the Nazi regime. After the war, Hipp became a displaced person ekeing out a living as…
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I started reading Cadence in the early 1980s. Since that time, I have come to respect editor and jazz critic Robert Rusch for his intelligent, succinct and unbiased reviews. Over the past twenty years, it has been my pleasure to get to know Robert and his family, making frequent trips from our home in Iowa to New York’s North Country. Several years ago, I was honored to be asked to help edit Robert’s Papatamus column.
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