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Enrico Pieranunzi Quintet The Extra Something Live at the Village Vanguard

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, live jazz August 13, 2022

Enrico Pieranunzi Quintet The Extra Something Live at the Village Vanguard Camjazz Is it possible to record over eight albums and still remain under the radar? If you are unaware of pianist and composer Enrico Pieranunzi, that’s perfectly forgivable as the Italian piano master has developed most of his career in Europe. The Extra Something […]

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Geoffrey Keezer & Friends Playdate

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review August 12, 2022

Geoffrey Keezer & Friends Playdate Markeez This is the 23rd album as a leader for acclaimed pianist, composer, and arranger Geoffrey Keezer, who lighthearted calls this session, Playdate. While the term connotes arranging a date for a group of kids to congregate and play, Keezer and his bandmates do anything but approach this far-ranging recording […]

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Andy Adamson Quintet A Coincidence of Cats

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review August 11, 2022

Andy Adamson Quintet A Coincidence of Cats Andros The whimsical title threw this writer at first. Maybe pianist and composer Andy Adamson was referencing “cats” as in musicians. Probably not, but it doesn’t matter as the music is rhythmically complex, harmonic, precise, engaging, and just about anything but whimsical. Adamson and his quintet hail from […]

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Brian Lynch and Sphere of Influence Songbook Vol. 2 Dance The Way U Want To

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, roots August 10, 2022

Brian Lynch and Sphere of Influence Songbook Vol. 2 Dance The Way U Want To Hollistic MusicWorks Multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch returns with the second volume of his acclaimed Songbook Series: Brian Lynch And Spheres Of Influence – Songbook Vol. 2: Dance The Way U Want To. Lynch’s concept in the Series is to reclaim original compositions that he […]

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Dana Fitzsimmons with Bill Graham and Brandon Boone Fault Lines

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review July 2, 2022

Dana Fitzsimmons with Bill Graham and Brandon Boone Fault Lines Self-released Jazz trio albums come in many shapes, colors, and configurations with this one, Fault Lines, in the standard piano-bass-drums lineup, anything but standard in its delivery of the music which, for lack of a better term, is free jazz. Drummer and leader Dana Fitzsimmons […]

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Vadim Neselovskyi Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, roots June 17, 2022

Vadim Neselovskyi Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City Sunnyside The images of Ukraine that we see today are of war-torn cities while press reports and video clips praise the resilience of its people. Pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi gives us an artful, insightful musical tour of one the countries most famous cities, Odesa, […]

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John Lee The Artist

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, making a Scene June 16, 2022

John Lee The Artist Cellar Music Group Okay, this writer confesses to a bias toward Cory Weeds’ Cellar Music Group. (see Grant Stewart Quartet) They just continue to issue great recordings as exemplified here by the debut as a leader for 28-year-old bassist and multi-instrumentalist John Lee from Vancouver. The Artist is a straight-ahead, swinging […]

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Josean Jacobo Trio Herencia Criolla

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, latin jazz April 21, 2022

Josean Jacobo Trio Herencia Criolla E7 Studios The last time we heard from Dominican pianist Josean Jacobo, he was with his sextet Tumbao for Cimarron, not only one of the best Latin jazz albums of 2019 but one of the best overall in the umbrella category of jazz. He now returns with his trio and […]

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Harry Skoler Living In Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus

Jim Hynes cd review, jazz, Jazz Review, making a Scene April 20, 2022

Harry Skoler Living In Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus Sunnyside As you all likely know by now, this is the centennial year for Charles Mingus. Clarinetist Harry Skoler has been influenced since adolescence by the iconic bassist and one of the elite composers of jazz. Now, over 40 years later, Skoler, the current professor […]

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Myra Melford For the Love of Fire and Water

Jim Hynes cd review, fire and water, jazz, Jazz Review, Myra Melford April 8, 2022

Myra Melford For the Love of Fire and Water Rogueart Pianist and composer Myra Melford assembles a super group of improvising players for what she has dubbed the Fire and Water Quintet and an album of a similar name, For the Love of Fire and Water. She says this is the first installment of a […]

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George Freeman Everybody Say Yeah!

Jim Hynes cd review, george freeman, jazz, Jazz Review April 7, 2022

George Freeman Everybody Say Yeah! Southport The jazz history of Chicago great, guitarist George Freeman, continues as he reaches his 95th birthday. This writer can only think of two other active musicians in his sphere, drummer Roy Haynes and Sun Ra Arkestra leader, Marshall Allen, both of whom are 97. There are likely just a […]