Live season: five new jazz albums

It has always been assumed that summer is the dead season in the record usinessb. All high-profile / significant releases are traditionally planned for the beginning of autumn,and then-for the new year. In short, the first period — when students return from vacation, the second-when people are preparing to celebrate and give everything in a row. Thank God, now no one really saves anything: there is material-it is released. Worthy music will find its audience in any season.

August and the beginning of September pleased us with jazz — generally speaking, any jazz. From old-school “cool” to all sorts of modernist things, from complex crowded Studio projects to minimalist hot “Zhivago”. Even the title to this review is difficult to come up with, so different everything is. But all five releases have something in common, namely, filling old forms with new content. And this is a worthy jazz super-task — in any season. Continue reading →