On the turntable
Brandee Younger–Gadabout Season (2025)
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Younger plays her beguiling mix of spiritual jazz, hip-hop, and pop on Alice Coltrane's harp. An ideal fit for the Impulse! label. Too bad the package and pressing aren't nicer.
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Esperanza Spalding–Songwrights Apothecary Lab (2021)
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Like Joni's 70s jazz-folk-rock experiments, Esperanza's mature output is more likely to be appreciated 20-30 years from now than it is today. A singular artist.
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Kevin Morby–Singing Saw (2016)
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Morby is one of the current century's top singer-songwriters, and Sam Cohen's production (and bass playing!) here perfectly complements the album's understated, impressionistic epics.
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Weather Report–Mysterious Traveler (1974); Black Market (1976); Heavy Weather (1977); Procession (1983)
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Sunday, rearranging my records, I wound up with my hands full of the WR catalog. Been spinning them ever since.
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Terri Lyne Carrington–New Standards Vol. 1 (2022)
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This LP is part of a bigger project in which Carrington has produced a songbook of notable jazz compositions by women. I hope "Vol. 1" portends further recordings.
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YouTube video by Gerald Clayton - Topic Cinnamon Sugar / Rush

Here are the tracks "Cinnamon Sugar" and "Rush" played simultaneously. Streaming services offer the Expanded Version of the album, but on YouTube, it appears that you have to find the mixed tracks one by one.
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Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos (2025)
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On pianist Clayton's latest, he leads a stellar sextet through twelve tracks that can be mixed into six pairs. The Expanded Version has the pairs played simultaneously. See Comment
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Muriel Grossmann–Natural Time (2016)
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The song titles foreshadow spiritual jazz, but there is a unique groove in Grossmann's music. This is the 2021 vinyl release, beautifully mastered, pressed, and packaged on RRGems.
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Seamus Blake–Guardians of the Heart Machine (2019)
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Blake is a warm-toned, musically complex tenor out of Canada. Here, he leads an acoustic quartet through nine tuneful originals, taking daring, adventurous solos.
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InI, Pete Rock–Center Of Attention (rec 1995; rel 2003)
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Recorded in 1995, shelved by record companies clueless about what to do with hip-hop, and haphazardly released in 2003, this is among Pete's best. Find a copy!
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Brahja–Brahja (2019)
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Brahja is the eponymous project of NYC-based saxophonist Devin Brhja Waldman. They have an arresting take on the simultaneously spacey and earthy improv music most often called "spiritual jazz."
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Florian Arbenz–Conversation #11 / #12 (2024)
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The final volumes of Swiss drummer Arbenz's series of musical conversations, each with a different lineup. This series may be the most ambitious jazz project of the 20s.
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Yazz Ahmed–A Paradise In the Hold (2025)
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Album of the Year candidate! Ahmed has been offering a beguiling mix of jazz and her native Bahraini music for a few years now. This album manages to go deeper in both veins.
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Shack–H.M.S. Fable (1999)
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After 25 years, this masterpiece (my favorite rock record of the 90s) got a vinyl release. Born timeless, Fable still sits comfortably with its influences, the Byrds, Love, Davies, et al.
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The Comet Is Coming–Trust In the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2019) / Imminent 12" (2020)
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A big step for London's 2010s underground jazz scene as Shabaka's least conventional jazz project releases music on Impulse!
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David Binney–Tomorrow's Journey (2022)
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Adventurous, high-energy jazz from alto saxophonist Binney and a nonet of (mostly) young, California-based colleagues. You can tell this band has played together live ... a lot!
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Svetlanov, cond., USSR State SO–Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (rec. 1968)
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A rousing 7th from Svetlanov and a band that must have had this music in their blood. The 1st and 4th movements are tense and powerful here.
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Lakecia Benjamin–Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (2024)
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Lakecia has developed into one of the most engaging and passionate live acts in jazz this decade and seems to robe her success in nothing but grace and gratitude.
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Quatuor Ébène–Beethoven Around the World (2020)
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This is the Ébène's well selected 2LP vinyl release commemorating their 2019-2020 world tour on which they played the complete string quartet cycle (out as a 7CD set).
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Alan Civil, Philharmonia Orch., O. Klemperer, cond.–Mozart: Horn Concertos (1961)
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Dead opposite to the period performances I've been spinning, but despite the slow, heavy orchestrations, Otto K. is a master of "flow."
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The English Consort, T. Pinnacle, cond.–Handel: Concertos Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 5–8 (1982)
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I remain fond of the period-instrument ensembles recorded in the 70s and 80s, not least because I heard them on vinyl first.
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There's still SportsCenter?

On the turntable
Hilary Hahn, L.A. Chamber Orch., J. Kahne, cond.—Bach: Concertos (rec. 2003, vinyl releases. 2018)
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Some critics disagree, but I like the tempi of the fast movements here, and Hahn's slow-movement playing is gorgeous.
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Miguel Zenón–Música de last Américas (2022)
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One of today's premier altoists leads his Quartet through a blazing set of Latin jazz in all its forms. A great-sounding numbered, ltd-edition pressing on marbled vinyl.
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Fred Hersch–The Surrounding Green (2025)
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Hersch, 69, has long been among his generation's finest acoustic jazz piano players. His latest trio record on ECM plays like his live set: lovely, virtuosic, subtly diverse.
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Wilma Vritra–Grotto (2024)
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Let's make it a Will Archer trilogy with this one-of-a-kind collab with rapper Pyramid Vritra. The tracks here are less beats than they are orchestrations. This is hip-hop as chamber music.
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Wilma Archer–A Western Circular (2020)
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Archer produced the album in yesterday's post, but today, I'm playing his own record, which ranked near the top of my 2020 favorites. It boasts one of DOOM's last appearances.
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Nilüfer Yanya–My Method Actor (2024)
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The Brit singer-songwriter-guitarist delivers her best batch (of songs) yet and finds an ideal production match in the person of Wilma Archer. Result: one of last year's best.
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Loyle Carner–Not Waving, But Drowning (2019)
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Carner's records are as patient, sincere, and understated as most of contemporary media and politics are shallow, cynical, and narcissistic. Slow down and listen closely.
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McKinley Dixon–Magic, Alive! (2025)
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Like it's predessor, Dixon's latest is brief (35 min), but so full—both musically and lyrically—that you'd swear it's twice as long. Dixon is more aggressive, but no less eloquent.
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