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The Chosen One – Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell- – We Insist 2025!(Candid)

  Four-time GRAMMY-winning, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell present We Insist 2025!, a bold reimagining of the seminal 1961 album We Insist! Max Roach’s…
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The Chosen One – Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch)

Mary Halvorson is one of a (small) handful of guitarists who has defined that instrument’s contemporary voice in the last decade or so. I’d personally add Miles Okazaki, Liberty Ellman…
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The Chosen One – Brandee Younger – Gadabout Season

  If you were to create a list of sacred instruments, Alice Coltrane’s harp would be pretty near the top. That harp, the one she recorded her classic Impulse! recording…
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The Chosen One – Brandon Woody – For The Love Of It All (Blue Note)

  Another fine signing to Blue Note’s increasingly exciting roster, trumpet player Brandon Woody lands on the label with a joyful, spiritually charged debut boasting a talented young band with…
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James Brandon Lewis – Abstraction is Deliverance (Intakt)

  James Brandon Lewis is a tenor for the times, and then some. Undoubtedly one of the most important voices in contemporary jazz he’s stunning in both the volume of…
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Snowpoet – Heartstrings (Edition)

 Now in to their second decade the band Snowpoet occupy a fairly unique position in modern music.  The press release for the album takes several stabs at describing them and…
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David Murray Quartet Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)

Few living jazz artists have made such a consistent contribution to the music over the last five decades as David Murray. At eighty years old he still, in some ways,…
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Milena Casado – Reflection Of Another Self

  Here’s one of those debut albums that feels like a statement for the times. Spanish born trumpet and flugelhorn player Milena Casado and composer has been mentored by the…
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Joe Lovano – Homage (ECM)

  Following up their acclaimed debut (Arctic Riff 2020) the ECM dream-team combo of US tenor veteran Joe Lovano and the polish Marcin Wasilewski trio return for a studio set…
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Poppy Daniels – Keep On Going (Jazz re:freshed)

Rising trumpet star Poppy Daniels is always in-demand as a session musician on the busy UK scene, appearing with artists such as Nix Northwest, Blue Lab Beats and Komodo Horns.…
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Enemy – Fiend (Edition)

There’s something exiting about enduring groups whose members are prolific, busy and far-ranging in their individual activities but return on a regular, if occasional basis to a beloved project. That’s…
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Donovan Haffner – Aleviate

Perhaps three years ago Tomorrow’s Warriors founder (and lest we forget the first ever jazz recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music) Gary Crosby took me aside at a gig…
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