Exploring the history and origins of the live album, which dates back to a 1938 concert recording of Benny Goodman at the iconic Carnegie Hall in New York.
and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.
That is a larger and/or deeper slate than any label issuing new jazz albums this year, from the independents to the big corporate Blue Note and ECM. A best archival releases list that only had albums ...
And Joel Ross is a rising voice on the mallets. This album; one that Ross has said is consciously created to each a broader listenership, is clean, modern, accessible yet mature and well written and ...
An assured and ambitious album that delivers much and, for the future, promises even more. Adjunct Ensemble is an experimental jazz collective led by the Belfast composer Jamie Thompson that had ...