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TOMASZ STAŃKO - Twet·Polish Jazz Vol. 39 (1974)
This monumental album by Polish Jazz trumpeter / composer Tomasz Stanko in one of the most important releases on the legendary Polish Jazz series, which means it's a truly stellar performance. It...
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TOMASZ STAŃKO - A i J (1985)
This magnificent album by Polish trumpeter/composer Tomasz Stanko includes the rest of the music recorded at the same session, which produced the superb "Music 81" album. As with all great and...
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TOMASZ STAŃKO - Bosonossa and Other Ballads (1993)
Polish trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Tomasz Stanko has created a ballads album worthy of the hearty approval of his former employer, Kryzsztof Pendereki. With the aid of pianist Bobo Stenson,...
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MOVIN' ON - Shake, Shuttle And Blow (1999)
Tracks1. Do You Like Pastrami (Spoerri/Weber) 2. Bolghatty Dreams (Spoerri) 3. Shake, Shuttle And Blow (Spoerri) 4. Barrel Without Bottom (Doran) 5. Up And Push (Weber) 6. Tri-Van-Drumming (Spoerri)...
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CECIL TAYLOR - Air Above The Mountain (1976)
This Cecil Taylor solo concert features the radical pianist at a performance in Austria playing continuously for 51 minutes. Except for some brief moments, his music is quite intense, percussive,...
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CECIL TAYLOR UNIT - Dark To Themselves (1976)
Dark to Themselves is a continuous 61-plus-minute performance by pianist Cecil Taylor and his 1976 quintet (which also includes such fiery players as trumpeter Raphe Malik, his longtime altoist Jimmy...
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CECIL TAYLOR - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (1981)
Cecil Taylor has long been a favorite of many top jazz critics while confounding some jazz fans with his often dissonant attack on piano. Yet this 1980 solo piano studio session may be one of his...
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RALPH ALESSI & FRED HETSCH - Only Many (2013)
La segunda grabación de Ralph Alessi para el sello CAM Jazz (tras el «Cognitive Dissonance» grabado en 2004 y editado en 2010) es este dúo junto al pianista Fred Hersch. Ambos habían coincidido ya en...
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MIROSLAV VITOUS - Universal Syncopator (2003)
On his first jazz date as a leader since 1992, Czechoslovakian bassist and composer Miroslav Vitous comes out of the gate with a host of heavyweights on one of the more lyrically swinging dates in...
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JASON MORAN - All Rise (2014)
Yeah, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller is a tribute to the great stride pianist, but in Jason Moran's hands, it's not what one would expect. This album isn't full of stride piano, but it is...
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JERRY GONZALEZ & THE APACHE BAND - Fire Dance (1996)
This is one of the best recordings by Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band of the 1990s. For this inspired live set, four of the six selections are over ten minutes long, with Thelonious Monk's "Let's...
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JANE IRA BLOOM - Art and Aviation (1992)
Art & Aviation is not only one of Jane Ira Bloom's finest albums, it is also a remarkably successful (and fairly early) attempt to bring electronic influences to bear on acoustic jazz. Bloom's...
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JANE IRA BLOOM - Wingwalker (2010)
Jane Ira Bloom is a rarity in jazz, a full-time soprano saxophonist instead of doubling on it from a separate horn. Bloom has long pushed the envelope with her provocative compositions and deft use of...
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JANE IRA BLOOM - Sixteen Sunsets (2013)
Sidney Bechet pioneered the use of the soprano saxophone in jazz in the early 20s. John Coltrane brought that "straight horn" out of a relative dormancy of use in 1959 with his anthem-like take on...
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DAVID FRIESEN - Circle of Three (2011)
The “Three” are bassist-composer Friesen, tenor saxophonist John Gross and pianist Greg Goebel. The “Circle” represents their intricately wound musical interplay, of course, but it’s obvious that...
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JEAN-MICHEL PILC - New Dreams (2007)
Jean-Michel Pilc has lots of surprises in store for listeners in New Dreams. Well accompanied by bassist Thomas Bramerie and either Ari Hoenig or Mark Mondesir on drums, his unusual, consistently...
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JEAN-MICHEL PILC - Essential (2011)
Jean-Michel Pilc emerged as one of the rising young European jazz pianists, recording a number of CDs on the Continent, though he had long since become a naturalized American. He makes his debut for a...
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JEAN-MICHEL PILC - True Story (2010)
Jean-Michel Pilc has established himself as one of the major jazz pianists to emerge from Europe around the beginning of the 21st century. Joined by Mingus Big Band bassist Boris Kozlov and veteran...
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REGINA CARTER - Southern Comfort (2014)
On Regina Carter's Southern Comfort, her Sony Masterworks debut, the Detroit-born violinist continues the musical journey of self-discovery that began with 2006's I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental...
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RALPH ALESSI AND THIS AGAINST THAT - Wiry Strong (2011)
Born out of the jazz laboratory of Brooklyn's M-Base experiments of the 1990s, trumpeter Ralph Alessi has always seemed to be a farouche player. Never hankering for the spotlight, he always seems...
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