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Jazz Bakery “Moveable Feast” Presents Diego Figueiredo &  Claudia Bossle - Jazz Weekly “Tonight we celebrate the art of improvisation” So cheerfully declared guitarist Diego Figueiredo, who just 24 hours before learned that his scheduled partner Ken Peplowsk would not be joining him on clarinet and tenor due to an illness. So, in the tradition of jazz, Mr. Figueiredo improvised and selected vocalist Claudio Bossle to join him at the Moos for a…
27.05.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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John Daversa Big Band@The Baked Potato 05.23.25 - Jazz Weekly Bandleader John Daversa gave a whole new meaning to the term “Stuffed Baked Potato” Friday night. At the famed jazz venue, Daversa had the stage overflowing like the famous Philly Cheese Steak spud served to the customers, as 17, count  ‘em, 17 musicians brought their shoe horns and jammed (in more ways than one) together and delivered some of the…
27.05.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jeffrey Schanzer: The Past Is Present - Jazz Weekly Composer Jeffrey Schanzer puts together a cantata of conversations about the Jewish holcaust, with text from a group of performers as relatives, supported by a small chamber ensemble. The 70 minute story mixes question and answer dialogues of autobiographical nature, to dramatic cantoral reciting as on “A Mother’s Story”. The clarinets of Margot Leverett and Ned Rothenberg give a dark…
26.05.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FORGOTTEN BAR BAND…Brinsley Schwarz: Live at Rockpalast 1975 - Jazz Weekly Back in the 1970s, when punk, heavy metal and progressive rock fought with glitter rock, there was a quiet desire to return the basic essence of early rock. Bands like Graham Parker brought music back to the sound of pubs and bars, and usually on the scene was guitarist Brinsley Schwarz. Here, he sings and plays with Nick Lowe/b-voc, Billy…
26.05.2025 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eric Siereveld’s Organic Quintett: Sweet William - Jazz Weekly Playing trumpet and flugelhorn, Eric Siereveld brings in the father/son combo of Steve Davis/tb and Tony Davis/g to complete the front line with Bill Todd/ts-fl, while the rhythm team of Steve Snyder/B3 and Carmen Intorre Jr/dr add supple support to the originals. Siereveld’s pen is almost as might as his brass sword, as the horns are warm and sleek as…
26.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Curtis Nowosad: I Am Doing My Best Ernesto - Jazz Weekly NYC-based drummer Curtis Nowosad creates an album that mixes indie ideas with jazz sensibilities, joining together with guitarists/vocalist Joey Landreth , guitarist Andrew Renfroe and vocalist Joanna Majoko. Nowosad digs into a hip little pattern for Renroe’s guitar riffs on the catchy “We Do We” while mixing ideas from John Scofield and Pat Metheny on the rocky “No Such Place…
26.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alan Arena: Deceived - Jazz Weekly Singer and guitarist Alan Arena brings a deep set of blues rockers together on this latest release. The team of Paul Nelson/g, Brad Hallen/b, Marty Richards/dr, Brooks Milgate/p-org and Stephens Clements/perc bring in some cameo guests for some clever originals. Arena comes off as a storyteller here, spinning yards as the fun “Big Black Cat”, the autobiographic “Raised On Radio”…
26.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lisa Mann & Groove Now: The Great Women In Blues ROZ - Jazz Weekly Vocalist and bassist Lisa Mann gives a tribute to ladies who sang the blues with guest singer Terrie Obadi along with Jimi Bott/dr, Louis Pain/org and Ben Rice-Jason Thomas/g. Captured at a 2023 performance in Switzerland, the wide swath of xx blues is presented, going back to the gospel roots, as Obadi delivers a riveting a cappella medley of spirituals…
26.05.2025 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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V&BT: Diamonds At The Rainbow’s End ROZ - Jazz Weekly Rough and tumble vocalist Bigdis Haugen fronts a hard hitting blues rocking band of Tom Petterson/g-org, Bjorn Lokling/b and Christer Persson/dr for an album recorded as live as you want it in Norway. Except for a dark and moody take of “House Of The Rising Son”, all of the songs are originals, with some heavy Foghat riffs on “Confession” and…
26.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joaquin Nunez & Habana Safari: Ruta De La Clave Ernesto - Jazz Weekly Playing drums and percussion, and even singing a bit, Joaquin Nunez creates fresh Cuban sounds with his core team of Dayramir Gonzalez/p-key, Roberto Riveron/b, Alexander Brown/tp-fh, Jeff King/ts, Estaban Vargas/vi-vi, Mark Daniels/effects and a rotating team of guests on horns, bass and vocals. The synthy sounds work well as the warm horns coast on the simmering  “Afrocubanos” with rich chorus and…
26.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CLEVER TRIO TIME…Patrick Zimmerli: Songs of Innocence, George Crotty Trio: Heart Music. Ernesto - Jazz Weekly A pair of unique threes... Soprano saxist Patrick Zimmerli creates an intuitive trio with pianist Kevin Hays and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi on this ep of originals. Zimmerli’s tone is fluid and rich, strong and lyrical with Hays on “60 Morningside” and pretty with the ivories for “Crow or Dove”. Most fun are the pair of folk dances, as Zimmerli bears…
26.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag - Jazz Weekly Pete McGuinness’ latest album shows that you can’t keep a good man down. Although no longer able to play his rich trombone due to having a neurological disorder, McGuinness still lets his pen and voice deliver his musical visions. His singing is reminiscent of Chet Baker, warm and with a dash of urgency on Cole Porter’s “From This Moment On”…
26.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NEUMA IDEAS…Jeannine Wagar: Into The Night - Jazz Weekly Subconscious dreams and concepts that float in and out of our mind are sonically explored by Jeannine Wager, who uses various computers and keyboards to form REM tones. Folksy formats of foam float on “Easy Does It”, while moments of Peruvian pan pipes call from the Andes on the synthy “ Lament” and “Over There”. Nimbus clouds of visions hover…
22.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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****THIS IS A HARD BOP QUINTET***Clifford Brown & Max roach: Legendary Albums 1954-56 - Jazz Weekly Yes, people always talk about the “Classic” quintets of Miles Davis. But to be perfectly honest, the quintet that I still play the most is the one co lead by trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach. With boppi9ng pianist Richie Powell (brother of Bud), bassist George Morrow and either Sonny Rollins or Harold Land on tenor sax, these two…
22.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michelle Nicolle & Larry Koonse: The Silent Wish - Jazz Weekly Clear toned vocalist Michelle Nicolle shows her confidence and range on this classy teaming with guitarist Larry Koonse on a collection of standards plus. Her delivery is warm and clear, reminiscent of Chris Connor in emotion and dynamics as on “When Your Lover  Has Gone” while reclining in style on “I’m Glad There Is You”. She delves into the syllables…
22.05.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mitch Towne: Refuge - Jazz Weekly Organmeister Mitch Towne teams up with drummer Jeffery Johnson and guitarist Tetsuya Nishiyama for a collection of pieces that are reminiscent of the summit meetings with Larry Young and Grant Green. . There are some nifty and clever grooves as on “Wolverine” and crispy drum work for “Act As If”, while some rich harmonies and thick hues to the blues…
22.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Tommaso Perazzo: Portrait of a Moment - Jazz Weekly Pianist Tommaso Perazzo brings in heavyweight bassist Buster Williams and drummer Marcello Cardillo for a formidable session of strong originals and covers. Perazzo has a soulful bop touch not too dissimilar from Wynton Kelly, rich and colorful on his read of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” , lyrical around the stablemates during “Ricordi” and crisp with style for a classy “Where Giants…
22.05.2025 02:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra@Vibrato Grill 05.13.25 - Jazz Weekly “Sure, it’s Tuesday night, but we’re going to make it feel like it’s Saturday!” So introduced vocalist Robin Simone as she teamed up with her Hollywood Orchestra to give a double feature of songs from musicals of the silver screen. The 18 piece big band itself, conducted and arranged by Charley Harrison, showed its own chops on a pair of…
21.05.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A TRIPLE CROWN…Michael Morreale: Power Trio Vol. 5 - Jazz Weekly Swinging a bat surrounded by Yankee pinstripes on the cover, Michael Morreale hits from both sides of the plate on this recent release, playing both trumpet and then flugel horn in two different trio lineups. On trumpet, Morreale joins with Tony Regusis/p and Earl Sauls/b for a gorgeous rendition of “These Foolish Things” that have him varying his delivery like…
19.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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COOLIDGE JAZZ…Lyn Stanley: Tribute to 1924 - Jazz Weekly Vocalist Lyn Stanley goes back 100 years or so, and reinterprets some of the foundational tunes of the Jazz Age and brings a modern mood. It works surprisingly well, giving credit to both composers and vocalist. She mixes and matches with John Chiodin/g, Chuck Berghofer/b, Luis Conte/perc, Mike Garson/p, Aaron Serfaty/dr, Ricky Woodard/ts and Hendrick Meurkens/harm, with Stanley’s warm and…
19.05.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Knats: Knats - Jazz Weekly That hotbed of jazz, Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK, delivers with a clever band named Knats. The core consists of Stan Woodward/b, King David Ike Elechi/dr, Ferg Kilsby/tp, Cam Ross/ts and Sandro Shar/key, with a large collection of guests for a number of the originals. The songs all contain a concise, sleek and richly textured dance feel, with the…
19.05.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trumpeteers: The Golden Decade 1948-59 - Jazz Weekly The  post-WWII years were the halcyon days of black gospel music, with a  plethora of vocal groups and artists. One overlooked one was from Maryland, The Trumpeteers. Led by Joseph E. Johnson, it also included alumni from The Willing Four and Golden Gate Quartet, with James Keels, Raleigh Turnage and Willie MacNair being the original core group. They focused on…
19.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anna Rubin: Powehi - Jazz Weekly This two disc set brings together a collection of songs and sounds produced mostly through “mixed media”, meaning that there are stories being told by a person and supported by either an instrument or electronic sounds. Some of the voices are quite musical, as the spacey operatic soprano by Susant Botti with edgy violin on ‘Everything Goes Bee” to Pamela…
19.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jordan VanHemert: Survival Of The Fittest - Jazz Weekly Tenor saxist Jordan VanHemert mixes and matches his rhythm team of Helen Sung/p, Rodney Whitaker/b and Lewis Nash/dr with a brass secion of Terell Stafford/tp-fh and Michael Dease/tb in various  musical portraits. VanHemert’s tone is a complete  joy, rich and full of texture while relaxed and bel canto. Unsurprisingly the most endearing tunes are the collection of duets, as he…
19.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FOLK AND SOUL FROM AVID…Nina Simone: Three Classic Albums Plus, Greenwich Village Folk: Four Classic Albums - Jazz Weekly Influential sounds from the 60s that still resonate today.. The folk sounds from Greenwich Village spoke a new language to the Baby Boomer generation, as these four albums indicate. Bob Dylan’s famous debut is intriguing in that it has  him keeping to the folk tradition instead of redefining it. He gives homage to his predecessors lyke Pete Seeger, with tunes…
19.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade - Jazz Weekly At one time the trend setter for the post bop avant garde crowd back in the 70s-80s, David Murray has spent the last few years in Europe and releasing a series of impressively strong sessions. This latest one has him joined by Marta Sanchez/p, Luke Stewart/b and Russell Carter/dr for the entire album which reflects Murray’s multi-faceted ideas. On the…
19.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Camila Meza: Portal - Jazz Weekly A mix of indie, synth and jazz take place on this album by vocalist Camila Meza,as she plays guitars joined by Shai Maestro/key-synth-prog, Ofri Nehemya/dr, Margaret Davis/harp and a rotating guest crew. Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens bring in extra voices for the pretty “Uncovered Ground”, wth Faumelisa Manquepillan brings poetry to the haunting “Nieno (La Eterna)”. Meza’s angelic voice…
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Dinah Washington: Hits and Classics-The Singles Collection 1944-61 - Jazz Weekly When describing singers or musicians, it’s easy to fall into the trap of saying something like “Well, she sounds like so and so”. Well, Dinah Washington’s vocal style was so personal and profound that nowadays people describe other female vocalists as “sounding like Dinah Washington” to show you her impact. This four disc, 108 song boxed set covers the range…
19.05.2025 13:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alon Farber: Hagiga - Jazz Weekly Playing mostly soprano sax, with a dash of alto and tenor, Alon Farber brings in the post bop combo of Katia Toobool/p, Assaf Hakimi/b and Yonatan Rosen/dr for help interpreting his own material and a couple other creative pieces. Toobool brings a luscious piano intro for Farber’s soprano to dance around on her own “An Old Friend” while Oded Meir’s…
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****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home - Jazz Weekly So, simple, so unpretentious and so cozy. That’s what makes this album of Champian Fulton playing piano and singing with clarinetist-tenor saxist Klas Lindquist so alluring. Fulton has a girl next door voice a la Betty (In the Archie Comics) world of life, and her p iano is right out of Tin Pan Alley, stride for stride like a 400…
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