Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - November 2021
Jazzwise Editor's Choices for November include Eivind Aarset's Phantasmagoria on Jazzland, Petter Eldh's first Projekt Drums volume, and solo piano recordings by Craig Taborn on ECM. Other highlights include a live concert by the late Keith Tippett and fellow pianist Matthew Bourne, as well as an archival releaes of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' first tour of Japan in 1961.
Editor's Choices
"…the whole album seems to combine his distinctive and mysterious sound palette with more rumbustious guitar work – the space age imagery of ‘Inbound’ that has extra terrestrial sounds swimming through the mix, while ‘Outbound’ is a boogie from beyond the final frontier."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
"Look Out! is their first album in five years, cut on vintage kit at the revamped Van Gelder Studios, but sounding like a live recording, enhanced by that signature quality that liner-note writer (and Jazzwise contributor) Kevin Le Gendre rightly calls an 'orchestral richness... that will consistently blur the line between small group and big band'."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
"A recording that demonstrates in the right hands a production-orientated, electronica-infused take on jazz can takes a rightful place in its historically creative continuum."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Liebman may be a Coltrane disciple but he’s no copyist. Rather he has used aspects of Coltrane’s saxophone technique and approach to harmony to inform his playing, which is more lyrical and less inclined to sound sheet prolixity."
Available Format: CD
Available Format: Vinyl Record
"The adventures take many different forms. Taborn invariably makes pieces unfold without clear ‘sectional’ marking so that changes of atmosphere as well as structure can be disarming and exciting. There is a fluid quality to the material here as if a rhythmic line was a succession of waves rushing back and forth that blend into brilliantly distilled, pared-down motifs that have contrastingly rugged, physical timbres, like a rock emerging from water."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Such is the level of empathy on display that it’s genuinely difficult to discern with any confidence just who’s doing what. One will declare blunt, emphatic trills, to which the other makes more diaphanous suggestions. Sometimes both get swept up in a whirling liquid vortex. At times it feels as if they are gleefully finishing each other’s sentences."
Available Format: 2 CDs
Reissues/Archive
"Recorded live at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo at the end of Blakey’s first ever tour of Japan, the audience’s enthusiasm clearly had a bearing on the animation and intensity of the soloists…. This well-produced and beautifully-packaged find from the archives comes with a copiously illustrated and annotated booklet, with fresh interviews with Lou Donaldson, Wayne Shorter, Sadao Watanabe, Blakey’s son and drummers Billy Hart, Louis Hayes and Cindy Blackman Santana."
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
Audiophile Reissue of the Month
"The stars certainly aligned for this one! Seventeen years later Careless Love is back, sounding even better in this crisp remaster, and ageing well; in a couple of cases, extraordinarily well – the Cohen (‘Dance Me to The End of Love’) and Dylan (‘You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go’) covers can be considered definitive."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
