Ambient Jazz - CD Reviews (71)
I know virtually zip/nada/bupkis about this trio known as Rothko, except they’re British and they all play bass. Their style is almost unclassifiable - their only precedent…
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Hubbub is a collective of European (French or Swiss, I believe) improvisers who specialize (with this platter, anyway) in the more spacey/ambient mode of free improvisation…
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If you are looking for some European flavor to your jazz experience, "Parisian Honeymoon Suite" is a good sampler. This compilation CD features the gypsy jazz groups Hot Cl…
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His career winds from the 1940s to ‘01 and his music never stood still, Jimmy Giuffre remains one of the most interesting and underrated jazz musician/composers around. The…
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Wilson follows up his initial release Northern Seascape with a blend of downtempo numbers on Cape of Good Hope. He gets help from such smooth jazz giants as Richard Elliot,…
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Hamburg: Port of Call purports to be an "interdisciplinary project" that blends Hamburg jazz music with waterfront paintings of this seaside city. Paintings by Patrick Hask…
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Watching Ken Burns' PBS doc JAZZ, you'd be forgiven for getting the impression that jazz is a done deal and that the "fracturing" of the music in the sixties was responsibl…
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This CD, E.S.T. (Esbjorn Stensson Trio) is very impressive. It has style, simplicity, and communication. It says something and I love music that speaks to you. Especially a…
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If you're looking for music of the mind, this is it. It's obvious that the listener must search for deeper meaning here. There are moments that are built like classical mus…
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David Lyndon Huff takes many moods and flavors and sews them together to form a musical kaleidoscope. The tracks progress in haunting continuum as if holding deep sublimina…
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The Jazz Review is dedicated to promoting the very best in Classic, Contemporary and Acid Jazz. However, there is a new realm of music that is taking off around the country…
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