Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - April 2022
The latest Editor's Choice picks in Jazzwise available at Presto Music include Brad Mehldau's Jacob's Ladder, Danilo Pérez's Crisálida, and a double reissue from Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow Is the Question.
Editor's Choices
"This 13-track oratorio takes the ancient-to-future vibe and invests it with fury, connection and understanding, makes it a call-to-arms."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Nevertheless Mehldau’s signature as a pianist, even if it’s more Beatles, Bach and Brahms than Bud Powell, is all over the recording. On Jacob’s Ladder Mehldau gives you both something to think about as well as musically get your teeth into. Those are indeed rare qualities."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Pérez draws on his strong social conscience in creating Crisálida (meaning chrysalis). From the safe confines of a nurturing cocoon, the Panamanian pianist’s new collaborators – the Global Messengers – truly blossom, on a release that crosses borders in more ways than one."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Within this quietly chamber-musical cloister Mark Turner is so at home in, Return From The Stars is close to perfect."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Reissues/Archive
"This set, combining 'Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman' and 'Tomorrow Is The Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman', originally for Lester Koenig’s Contemporary label, neatly dovetails with Coleman’s The Atlantic Years – the 2018 Atlantic re-release of all Coleman’s output for the Atlantic label – in that the two collections are of a piece, covering the alto saxophonist’s most influential period in jazz."
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
