Contemporary Jazz - CD Reviews (1790)
What Once Was is an intricate, eclectic jazz CD that explods with much originality and imagination! The solo work and the group work shine, and the jazz perform…
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Dave Douglas’s first studio album in 3 years Spirit Moves released on his own Greenleaf Music label has him teamed up with a brass section of some renown. The quarte…
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Dar Cho is the latest release from pianist, vocalist, composer arranger and educator Mark Moultrup. Dar Cho is a Tibetan word, Dar meaning to increase lif…
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Daniel Ori’s debut CD as a leader is wonderful. A straight ahead contemporary jazz album that blends world influences into plenty of jazz stories. So It Goes takes t…
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Knowing that Daniel brings to his compositions his uniquely Israeli perspective, further reminds me that Jazz is alive all over the world! The compositions are not ethni…
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Requiem is a contemporary jazz journey that will captivate its listening audience with its boldness, daring, and discreet sense of verve and style. The performe…
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The Groovemasters are a new contemporary jazz ensemble whose eponymous offering is a five song EP that richly satisfies and leaves the listener wanting more. These heavy…
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So It Goes introduces the jazz acoustic bass and compositions of Daniel Ori to a wide jazz listening audience, and it is an original, refreshing CD collection t…
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Manual Valera is a rising young lion in jazz, and one listen to his latest record, Currents, should convince you. It's an impressive display of modern jazz craftwork…
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Jesse Elder has a new CD, The Winding Shelland it is long past due. His debut recording Jesse Elder Quintet - Leaf Lines (Independent 2005) showcased a talent…
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Guitarist Ori Dakari's music fuses the seemingly disparate worlds of modern jazz and the folk and ethnic musics of North Africa and Eastern Europe. The first thin…
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In A Dream is the first release for Gretchen Parlato on the Obliq label. Ms. Parlato has a previous independent CD released in 2005. Since that time she has honed he…
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The music is an attachment of her soul. The arrangements are an extension of her vision. The performance is her heart injected into ours, and this is the legacy of piani…
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What an impressive debut! The Israeli guitarist (by way of the Berklee College in Boston and then NYC) fits perfectly into the Tzadik worldview, although perhaps Dakari's m…
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Upto Here From Here is a new CD release from Ayelet Rose Gottlieb. It’s her third album since her debut CD Internal External which was rated best of 2004 by A…
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Guitarist/composer Joshua Breakstone takes audiences over rivers, through the woods, and traipsing across yellow brick roads in No One New, his fifth release on C…
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Cycles Suite cover is a kind of whited out picture of leader/guitarist/composer Chris Jentsch . Cycles Suite pretty much kicks ass. Geeky Chris Jentsch i…
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Dutch trumpet player Eric Vloeimans shows himself to be fluent at making melodic compounds that leap off the pages as they go through various stages of metamorphosis, in…
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Paul Taylor has long been amongst the cream of the crop when it comes to discussions regarding contemporary jazz saxophonists. He possesses a most distinctive and easily…
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Rita diGhent has a new CD Sprawl Indigo it has many fine features, including the inimitable vocalizing of Ms. diGhent. Combining jazz sensibilities with hip, street …
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