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All sorts of art: five new jazz albums with interesting themes
Jazz recording met the spring with a regrouping of forces. Projects come out with unexpected concepts that don’t seem to have anything to do with music. New interesting supergroups appear, while the old ones shake up the line-UPS, revise their views, and simply do not stand still. Like March snow.
Jeremy Pelt “Jeremy Pelt the Artist”Portrait of a musician as an artist is a concept album by trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. Who was also a lover of all sorts of plastic arts-wrote “Rodin Suite”, in honor of, of course, Auguste Rodin. Continue reading
In dark alleys: five new jazz albums
April is full of the intoxicating spirit of renewal. And it happens every year. And, thank God, for more than a hundred years, new jazz albums have been released at this time. April 19 of the XXI century is the return from oblivion of legendary figures, a bold experiment in a difficult duet format and something almost impossible-a solo album on a non-isolating instrument. As well as a lot of interesting author’s compositions. A hundred years ago, probably none of this collection would have been labeled “jazz” (or “jass” as the word was then spelled), but so what?
Larry Grenadier “the Gleaners” double bass Solo albums are not released every day. Here is in direct sense — solo, without other instruments at all! Even solo double bass pieces are rare, let alone entire programs. Continue reading
