Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - September 2021
Jazzwise Editor's Choices for September include Kenny Garrett and Julian Siegel, as well as reissues from Roy Brooks and Ken Wheeler.
Editor's Choices
"This is the fifth album by Garrett on Mack Avenue and it's impressive in its lines of input, ranging from Aretha Franklin to Marvin Gaye, from Afro-Cuban jazz to gospel and from R&B to hip hop. These elements tellingly influence each composition's direction of travel."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Tales from the Jacquard is a very powerful belated big-band debut for an artist who sounds in fine shape to make an enthralling habit of it."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
"[Vicente] Archer and [Bill] Stewart are crucial to the ensemble identity of this fine collective achievement, but Orrin Evans' long-honed mastery and Immanuel Wilkins' new-minted one are its most awesome virtues."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"The widely inventive bare-bones tenor trio reading of 'What's New' displays a level of unaffected sincerity that's rate in contemporary UK jaz. This is one of the most exciting releases of the year, brimming with potential."
Available Format: CD
"'The Big Push' by Shorter has a shuffle beat and exhibits fusion-ish touches while 'Creole Love Call' gets a rather startling, blues-groove reading. BB King would surely have approved."
Available Format: CD
"A double-album rather than such a mercilessly tight edit might have represented the participants’ individual as well as collective contributions more fairly on this fearlessly action-packed experiment - but the participants want to tour it live, and it will be a fascinating experience when they do."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Recommended Reissues/Archive
"Windmill Tilter still sounds like the arrival of the contemporary-jazz gamechanger it was, and this Dankworth band was a world-class outfit."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"…if you've never studied Tatum in depth, now is the time to start."
Available Format: CD
"… over its generous playing time we get to hear [Young] not only prove he was the originator of so much contemporary tenor but also highly capable of playing the younger men at their own game."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
"With faultless timing and inexhaustible energy, [Brooks] fuel-injects a powerhouse quinet that is one of the best adverts imaginable for the school of hard bop, even though the concert took place as fusion was in fashion and many groups wanted to sing the body electric."
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Re-mastered impeccably by Gearbox from the original master tapes, the sound is absolutely first-rate. Rendell conceptualised the album in a way that broke ranks with the brass and sax sound then dominating jazz on both sides of the Atlantic by opting for a two tenor frontline on most pieces - for example, 'On the Way' - contrasted by a more satisfying (for some) ethereal sound of flute, woodwind, soprano sax and vibraphone - 'Summer Song'."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
