Ambient Jazz - CD Reviews (71)
At best, "Sax Across America" is the type of music you’d hear when you are trying to talk to a warm body at your bank which recently has been swallowed up by a larger bank …
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Clint Eastwood has long claimed that had his acting, directing and producing careers not been successful, he would have chosen to be a musician. Over the last 30 years, the…
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The idea is very simple. Provide a CD of songs that helps people who have been at a high level of stress throughout the day to unwind and be able to talk to each other away…
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The Tone Sharks are an Oregonian collective nominally helmed by drummer/composer Dave Storrs, who favors an approach that’s freely-improvised yet informed by structure. For…
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I am acquainted with Ken Schaphorst from his work with his big bands and as the Chairman of Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatoire. Indigenous Technology is a depart…
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This album marks the first release in a series of duo recordings by guitarist Kevin Van Sant and other jazz musicians, this time being veteran saxophonist Frank Corbi. A se…
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Lili Haydn's new Private Music release "Light Blue Sun," produced by Bill Laswell, is a refreshing blend of pop, electronica, world, jazz and classical elements. That looks…
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The No-Neck Blues Band is a NY area ensemble whose members prefer not to be identified or photographed. Their music is not easy to classify, which is a big part of the fun.…
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Inner Noise contains many surprises along with interesting compositions from Israeli born drummer Asaf Sirkis. Utilizing a style of writing that allows for contri…
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Believe it or not, it is not compulsory, and not even all that important, despite the semantics that appear with regularity in the musical interplay, almost as though this …
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It was only by chance that I discovered this band. I was surfing the net for music sites and arrived at RobertStoneMusic.com Listening to their online streamings, I …
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Don't pass this CD up! The fourth offering from Sound Tribe Sector Nine is a musical scrapbook of the band's improvisations throughout 2001, appropriately titled "Seasons 0…
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There is an "ego-less" approach to collective improvisation, one where the musicians really listen, there’s none of the sparring/dueling now-it’s-MY-turn-in-the-spotlight w…
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Pianist Keiko Matsui's 14th studio release is the first that has an overall theme. The Ring is dedicated to provide a message of compassion, humanity and peace in a …
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This is one of those CD's that really hits the nail on the head. Trombonist Nelson Foltz calls it The Longing Hours and from what I heard, if you want to be longing …
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Over the last 100-plus years, jazz music has become America's greatest and most prolific export. In that amount of time, jazz has since returned to the United States as an …
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Singer/songwriter David Sylvian has long worked on the fringes of jazz. Starting out in the British glam/pop band, Japan, he wrote introspective songs and eventually steere…
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Since 1969, creative improvisational music has had a home thanks to the auspices of producer Manfred Eicher and his Editions of Contemporary Music (hint: that’s the long wa…
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Waiting for something to musically happen is the watchword for many artists hoping to cash in on the smooth jazz movement. At first glance mastering and competing with t…
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Guitarists Nicky Skopelitis and Raoul Bjorkenheim have, with the help of percussionist Bill Buchen and Bill Laswell (credited with "sounds"), put together an instrumental a…
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