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Paris Sessions is easily the most informal item in Sutton’s discography, but the idea of informality shouldn’t carry a negative connotation; quite the opposite, in [More]
Cityscape is an album by the German composer, arranger and conductor Claus Ogerman and the American saxophonist Michael Brecker. It was released in 1982 on [More]
“7 Gegner” composed by Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr From the Album “Running” (ACT 9545-2) Personnel: Julian Wasserfuhr – trumpet & programming Roman Wasserfuhr – piano, [More]
Milanese pianist Stefano Bollani sees Naples as “a parallel universe in which I often wander, alone or with companions”. His tribute to the city devotes [More]
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé several times, including the original 1924 scoring, “theater orchestra” setting published in 1926, [More]
Passages (Vijay Iyer). From the album A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke. Thom Jurek in his review for Allmusic says that “The instincts these players offer [More]
AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow: This Atlantic release has some unusual performances by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Two selections (“Da Capo” and “Fine”) combine the [More]
The Easy Way is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Verve label in 1959. AllMusic Review [More]
Dreams is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Skye label. “Here, Gabor Szabo ambitiously pairs [More]
In this video, Dick Hyman acknowledges his acoustic mastery as well as his electronic explorations while improvising on the piano and the newly re-issued Moog [More]