Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - June 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the June 2024 issue include new music from Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, Jasmine Myra, Ron Miles, Julie Sasoon, Lother Ohlmeier & Mia Ohlmeier, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Jack Walrath and Vasilis Xenopolous & Paul Edis Quartet, as well as archive releases and reissues from Ron Carter, Harold Land, Shelly Manne, Pepe de Lucía & Paco de Lucía, Cal Tjader and Cootie Williams.
New Releases
"...With two such eminent and resourceful musicians, they are far too experienced and wily to stick to a formula."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"Optimism and ambition have both been scaled up."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"Miles, Blade and Frisell are kindred spirits: each great listeners, each wear their virtuosity lightly, each creates more space than they fill. And it's in those spaces between that the magic distils."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"Sassoon and Lother Ohlmeier's patient use of space, and playful pursuance of each other's lines embraced by a tonal centre, are as enticing as always... Inside Colours Live feels like the opening of a new chapter in this subtly independent musical family's history."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"One of New York's premier public spaces, Central Park, is the subject of the music, and the duo captures its tranquility through ballads that often have a heartbreaking tenderness, as well as moments of invention that bring a range of nuance to the colour palette."
Available Format: CD
"This recording captures [Walrath] in front of an eminently simpatico line-up, running through some of his extensive back catalogue of compositions with panache, gusto and a decent helping of hip, sardonic NYC front."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"While there's nothing overly turbulent or histrionic here, the quartet's compatability and their ease in performance is a delight."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Archive & Reissues
"Where? is a hugely enjoyable album, and maybe that's the problem. Here's Eric Dolphy and... well, he sounds like he's having fun! Waldron too. This can't be right, these heavyweights aren't allowed to relax and just enjoy themselves, are they?"
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"A few years’ hence Land’s characterful, always personal, style was to be almost completely buried beneath the Traneisms, but here he brokers the ground between his new and old selves with total success."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"For these Reel to Real live dates, there are comings and goings among the quintet personnel; but the integrity of the music remains intact as Manne is able to call on top notch replacements."
Available Formats: 2 Vinyl Records, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"Excellent jazz from the ongoing Contemporary/Craft reissue series, here highlighting one of the leading figures of West Coast Jazz... The difference here is the laid-back, comfortably in-the-pocket jazz touch of five men on the bandstand playing as much for themselves as the Blackhawk audience."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV
"While the life experience that would infuse Paco's ouevre (and Pepe's voice) with emotion and colour is to come, there's a preternatural vibe, an otherworldly authenticity, to these siblings that make Pepito y Paquito worth a deep dive."
Available Format: CD
"Percussion was never far from [Tjader's] mind, and the excellent rhythm section here, built around his long-term colleague Willie Bobo delivers excitement and propulsion to what is in effect a mini-big-band."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Barney Whittaker
