Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - September 2022
The latest Editor's Choice selections from Jazzwise Magazine include Avishai Cohen's new trio album Shifting Sands, Julian Lage's View With a Room featuring his usual trio and a guest appearance from Bill Frisell, and the latest from modern jazz-funk act Snarky Puppy, Empire Central. Reissue and archival recommendations also include an early '80s bootleg set from Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon's Soul Sister on Storyville, and two re-mastered albums by pianist Frank Kimbrough.
Editor's Choices
"Following the orchestral manoeuvres of 2021's epic Two Roses, shape-shifting Israeli bassist Cohen returns to the trio format – and the result might just be his best album since Gently Disturbed 14 years ago."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Impressively, Drummond captures the contours of Bley’s village-band aesthetic through the sonics of a feisty, contemporary mainstream, sax-and-rhythm quartet."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"You have to love Geoff Eales, not simply for his fabulous keys and compositional skills but the utter passion of his vision. Love Sacred and Profane is his masterwork, referencing every thing from Debussy to Purim-era Return to Forever, showtime balladry to the works of another musical visionary, Hildegard von Bingen, the Sybil of the Rhine."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
"It is one of those albums that does not betray its secrets readily, and can be returned to time and again when a fresh nuance, an inspired moment of counterpoint or perfectly framed melodic variation reveal themselves to contribute to a broader understanding of the inspired creativity at work here."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Reissues / Archive
"It’s fair to say that there are as many opinions about this particular chapter of his life as there are Miles Davis fans. Most centre on what this music was not [...] rather than what it was, music in the context of the times, influenced less by his guitar-heavy bands of the 1970s that were in tune with the rock era, but more by the smoother, electronica– based sounds of mainstream 1980s pop."
Available Format: 3 CDs
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
"Gordon’s sojourn in Denmark (as well as Norway and Sweden) was a huge success. His playing, documented on several SteepleChase albums, was probably the best of his whole career. Still in his early forties, he was challenging himself every time he went on the bandstand, as these recordings attest."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
"Amply demonstrated in the present reissue of two re-mastered trio albums, originally released as Lullabluebye and Play, is [Kimbrough's] absolute command of the piano and an approach that hardly sounds like anyone else."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
