Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - March 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the March 2024 issue include new music from Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer, Empirical, Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Charles Lloyd, QOW Trio, Joel Ross, Youn Sun Nah and John Surman, as well as archive releases and reissues from Art Farmer, Mike Makhalemele & Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi and The Cliffs.
"The urgency and tight-knit ensemble play are still there, even it it's a more mature, reflective development on previous albums."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"The student has become a master."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"The term 'complete musician' is overused, but in both composing and improvising Julian Lage has to be close to one."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
"Many titles have open forms, and it is here the invention and ingenuity and collective wisdom of Lloyd's accompanists allow [his] improvisational magic to blossom..."
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"They find generation-spanning common cause in straightahead hard bop, their model of Sonny Rollins' chordless trios made current by fluent conviction in jazz's lingua franca..."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"All these fine tributes to tradition sound familiar, but there isn't a cliche within earshot."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"[...] the singer takes the listener on entirely new pathways through these songs."
Available Format: CD
"Words Unspoken is a natural heir to Surman's Invisible Threads [...] the palette is not limited but contained, and we are left to discover our own resolutions."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Archive & Reissues
"These are halcyon days for those keen to hoover up Art Farmer reissues at modest cost [...] Good music all the way."
Available Format: 2 CDs
"These three recordings come from the mid-1970s, a bleak time in the evolution of South African jazz [...] It is against this backdrop that these albums were made."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Barney Whittaker
