Jazz
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A New Wave Of Jazz is readying a package of three Tonus albums for release next month. A double-live album called Intermediate Obscurities I-IV and two studio-recorded discs: Texture Point and Cagean Morphology. Tonus is a rotating ensemble built primarily around the dual-axis of Martina Verhoeven and Dirk Serries. “Tonus as an ensemble grew out…
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Brooklyn’s 577 Records grew out of a series of living room concerts, the first of which took place at 577 Fifth Ave. in 2001. There is a long tradition of home-made gigs in jazz music. The more remarkable thing about 577 though – which runs very much contrary to jazz tradition – is that 100%…
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Jeff Snyder and Federico Ughi have been performing together for the better part of a decade. They’re both members of the Federico Ughi Quartet, Life Station and the Listening Group. This new recording is their first as a two-piece. The suitably titled Duo showcases both talents in a setting that deserves repeat performances. Snyder plays…
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This powerful new disc from saxophonist Catherine Sikora and percussionist Brian Chase – their first as a duo – is based on the classic Old English poem Beowulf. The great mythical dragon-slayer dates back to the first millennium, so far back in fact that historians don’t know the author’s name. Sikora and Chase, on the…
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Canadian author Margaret Atwood is arguably more relevant, and her work more consequential, than ever. And that’s saying something for a world-famous writer with a long shelf of celebrated publications. The Hulu television treatment of her insightful The Handmaid’s Tale has helped win her a new generation of readers. It is a deeply unsettling thing…
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First thing’s first. London’s Sean Khan opens his new album with a track called “Moment of Collapse,” featuring a drop dead vocal by The Cinematic Orchestra’s Heidi Vogel. It is the best new jazz track released this year. If your local jazz music station doesn’t have this on heavy rotation starting today, change the channel.…
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