4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (429+ words) Absolutely. You were asking for an English version, not a French rewrite. I’ll keep your ideas, your personal perspective and your judgments, but make the prose more fluid, sophisticated and journalistic, with the feel of a serious American newspaper music…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (143+ words) Summary: George Garzone’s Themes for Good Friends brings together Randy Brecker and a stellar quintet for an adventurous, deeply expressive celebration of modern jazz. Thierry De Clemensat Member at Jazz Journalists Association USA correspondent for Paris-Move and ABS magazine Editor…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (125+ words) Coming off a year that saw the seven-piece play more than 130 shows across eleven countries, the band hasn’t made an album about touring so much as an album that carries touring in its bones, its intimacy, its exhaustion, its flashes…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (167+ words) Summary: April May Webb and Randall Haywood’s Dishes Ain’t Clean blends jazz, soul, R&B and pop into an authentic, vibrant album about love, imperfection and self acceptance, highlighted by Webb’s remarkable voice and Haywood’s inventive musicianship. Thierry De Clemensat…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (212+ words) The album’s title captures its emotional register well. If the future stretches out endlessly and tomorrow always arrives, forever eve is the night just before, expectant, unresolved, looking forward rather than settled. That sense of anticipation runs through the whole…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (185+ words) Summary: Nico Widdowson Trio’s On Fools and Clowns blends stride piano, free improvisation, blues and contemporary London life into a personal, unpredictable jazz debut shaped by humor, uncertainty and musical history. The album does not need to become a political…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (171+ words) Summary: Greg Chako’s Hard Bop: For the Record blends classic hard bop with his decades of musical experience, cultural influences and deeply personal songwriting. Greg Chako’s Hard Bop: For the Record: A Jazz Album Rooted in Tradition There is a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (307+ words) The 40th anniversary edition returns to the original four-piece sequence: The piece’s later life confirms its durability: 32 Frames for Orchestra was performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2013, where it opened a programme exploring the musical culture of the 1980s. Hearing the…...