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December 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Charlap Trio: Street of Dreams

Bill Charlap Trio Street of Dreams Blue Note The jazz piano trio is a thing of beauty – a real test of interplay and musicianship, and of course the mercurial time-stretch between all of this; players working their own magic as a way to channel a collective good – a communal sound that feels as […]
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September 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Linda Lavin: Love Notes

Linda Lavin Love Notes Club44 / PROVIDENT Say the name Linda Lavin quickly and it almost sounds like Living Legend – and fair enough too! She’s been a star of stage and screen across several decades, a Broadway star, a singer of standards, show tunes and originals and an award-winning actor – back in the […]
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August 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Patricia Barber: Clique

Patricia Barber Clique Impex Records Vocalist and pianist Patricia Barber has both honeyed-warmth and icy-cool in her voice. It’s ageless too. And some two decades on from her last set of standards, Clique arrives as a reminder of all that was special about listening to her music – discovering it in the last 90s and […]
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June 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Newbop Quintet (June 10, Wellington)

Newbop Quintet Meow, Wellington Jazz Festival Thursday, June 10 An Auckland “supergroup” of session stalwarts was put together to sell classic hard bop-era jazz to casual fans, to purists, to, well, anyone that might turn up. It was a shame more people weren’t there to hear them at Wellington’s Jazz Festival performance, the group’s Capital […]
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June 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi

Masabumi Kikuchi Hanamichi Red Hook Records Masabumi Kikuchi was a pianist working across jazz and improvisation. We don’t always get to know aspects of the rich story of the Japanese musicians creating jazz unless we seek it out – although Kikuchi not only created solo piano albums and was the leader of small combos, he […]
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June 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Frederick Johnson & Andre Reiss: Duo

Frederick Johnson & Andre Reiss Duo TNT Groove International Journeyman singer Frederick Johnson, a Tampa Bay native, has a dreamy voice – and he never over-sings. Much the same can be said for Nashville guitarist Andre (Andy) Reiss. He never over-sings on his instrument – he’s got all of the Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow tricks […]
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May 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Mandy Barnett: Every Star Above

Mandy Barnett Every Star Above BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd Mandy Barnett is sometimes referred to as “the country Judy Garland”, a modern day torch singer – a Nashville chanteuse. She’s a country singer but her ability to carry the depth and breadth of a tune and sell the story of a song has always […]
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April 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Pasquale Grasso: Solo Ballads

Pasquale Grasso Solo Ballads Sony Music Entertainment Pasquale Grasso has freakish talent – here on a set of solo guitar pieces he plays his sincere, respectful renditions of established classics. No funny business, this is not some Marc Ribot deconstruction, instead think of the tone and taste of Jim Hall, the technique of Pat Metheny, […]
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February 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Willie Nelson: That’s Life

Willie Nelson That’s Life SMG Just last year, Willie Nelson released one of his greatest records in some time. Just lovely. At 87 he didn’t sound a day over 85, the way he’s sounded since at least 1985. And in true love ‘em and leave ‘em style here is, just a few months later, with […]
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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dave Brubeck: Lullabies

Dave Brubeck Lullabies Verve This is Dave Brubeck’s final album – released just now, but recorded a decade ago. It’s a set of charming-enough lullabies, the real weight of them can be measured by the wait I guess – and the timing now of release; early next month it is the jazz legend’s centenary so […]
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November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Fred Hersch: Songs From Home

Fred Hersch Songs From Home Palmetto Records Covid records. There’ll be many more to come. What to do when you can’t play a show – when you can’t get together with the full band, when you can’t do your job but need to try to make some money; more than that need to connect – […]
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November 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lauren Henderson: The Songbook Session

Lauren Henderson The Songbook Session Brontosaurus Records Lauren Henderson has been building her brand across a handful of albums and an EP – she’s a great singer of jazz, and she turns her ear to songs that sit just outside of the genre as well as honouring the ‘songbook’ classics; she’s as likely to reach […]
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