All About Jazz Album Reviews

Roberto Magris: Freedom Is Peace (Tue, 21 Jan 2025)
In 1998 international recording artist Roberto Magris formed a quintet of talented European musicians and called them his Europlane band which performed actively throughout Europe until 2003. More than twenty years later, the pianist assembles a new Europlane group and presents their first recording with Freedom is Peace, a powerful and captivating session of jazz with a soul-searching social conscious message reflective of the turbulent times we live in today and affirming that jazz can be a political statement which this album is designed to do gracefully... [ read more ]
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The Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up! (Tue, 21 Jan 2025)
Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander head up a band called Heavy Hitters, which features a stellar cast of jny: New York's jazz elite, including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Kenny Washington... [ read more ]
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Bill Evans: Explorations (Mon, 20 Jan 2025)
It is not easy to review a masterpiece. The celebrated American intellectual historian Perry Miller was once reduced to muttering something like "What am I supposed to say about the damn thing?" The damn thing in question being Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Professor Miller, meet pianist Bill Evans... [ read more ]
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