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Guitarist Mike Baggetta is one of his generation’s most original jazz improvisors and composers. It has been said that his performances are "totally compelling" (Jazz Journal - UK), "his melodic sense is truly beautiful" (Jazzreview.com) and that "each piece he performs creates new worlds of possibilities" (The Hartford Courant). Mike Baggetta recently received an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award for his compositional talent, and has also released the second album of his works for the Mike Baggetta Quartet, Source Material, on the Fresh Sound New Talent label. This is a follow-up to the first album by the quartet, Small Spaces, also on the Fresh Sound New Talent label
(After)
By Aaron Irwin
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Recuerdo (after Edna St. Vincent Millay);
Frederick Douglass (after Robert Hayden);
Five Bells (after Kenneth Slessor);
The Hill (after Joshua Mehigan);
Pikes Peak (after Sarah Holland - Batt);
When I Heard At The Close Of The Day (after Walt Whitman);
The Cemetery (after Steve Scafidi);
Daniel Boone (after Stephen Vincent Benét);
The President Visits The Storm (after Shane McCrae).
Take Five From Aaron Irwin
by AAJ Staff
Meet Aaron Irwin Critically acclaimed saxophonist, multi-woodwind player, and composer Aaron Irwin is a compelling voice of his generation. Known as a “lyrical alto saxophonist and a compelling original composer" (The New Yorker), Irwin is a sought-after commodity in the New York jazz scene. Aaron Irwin celebrates his latest project: (After) (Adhyâropa Records, 2024). His ninth ...
Recuerdo (after Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Album: (After)
By Aaron Irwin
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:03
Alex Sadnik: Flight
by Jeff Schwartz
What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, ...
Whit Dickey, Asher Gamedze, Quin Kirchner, Icepick and More
by Maurice Hogue
Three albums by drummers highlight this episode. South Africa's Asher Gamedze's Dialectic Soul brings to light the freer, more avant side of contemporary South African jazz (perhaps in a way that the revered Louis Moholo Moholo did over fifty years ago), while drummer Quin Kirchner's latest delves into various rhythms and tributes to favorite musicians. Tying ...
New releases from Bartosz Hadala, Luke Norris and Manteca
by Bob Osborne
There are three featured albums this week... Bartosz Hadala moved from New York City to Toronto in 2010 and began writing music for his next album. In time, new compositions took shape, and Hadala started to assemble his first electric band. It had been a decades-long dream to pay tribute to his idol, Chick ...
Wobegon
By Aaron Irwin
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Wobegon; Birthday Song; Say Hello; Strange Pastoral; Norman; Sunday and All (after William Carlos Williams); High Hat; The Forgiveness of Donald Rusk Currey; And Love's The Burning Boy (After Elizabeth Bishop); Brown Dog.
Mark F. Turner's Best Releases of 2016
by Mark F. Turner
Another year of outstanding releases which not only unveiled new artists but also fresh material from those I've admired over many years. While the roots of jazz were formed during the music diaspora from Africa to America its branches are continually grafting and evolving--artistically, culturally, and geographically as musicians and composers find creative ways to express ...
Spectre
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Second Prelude; Spectre I; The Only Blues; Passage; Spectre II; Nasty; Leavin' On Your Mind; Spectre III; War Orphans.
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