Take 5

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 – The separation and presence of the audio over the course of these roughly ninety minutes resonates like the very name of this iconic […]

Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of  Bloom (Pyroclastic Records) – The Trio of  Bloom phrase may or may not be an ironic reference to the 1979 alliance of John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams–the short-lived ‘Trio of Doom–but certainly as Ronald Shannon Jackson’s noisy “Nightwhistlers” gives way to the sweet ethereality of “Unreal Light,” […]

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.  Noah Haidu: Standards Vol. III – With what is now a trifecta of albums comprised solely of standards, pianist Noah Haidu has significantly elevated his profile as a musician and bandleader within […]

Time Out Take Five is a column that offers pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles that deserve attention and might otherwise go unnoticed. Marton Juhasz: Metropolis –  Drummer/composer/bandleader Marton Juhasz takes a sharp turn from where he left off with 2019’s Discovery. His first album since then finds him forging arrangements as ornate as the material, all […]

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Peter Bernstein/Brad Mehldau/Vicente Archer/Al Foster: Better Angels – Better Angels reaffirms Peter Bernstein’s exquisite sense of taste as a musician and a bandleader. The guitarist acquits himself with great panache on a range of choice material, […]

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Douglas Cuomo featuring Nels Cline and the Aizuri Quartet: seven limbs – On these arrangements of poignant and provocative compositions, the wide-ranging sounds of guitarist Nels Cline’s instrument, plus electronics, […]

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.   Masabumi Kikuchi/ Hanamichi – The Final Studio Recording: The relative speed at which this album’s forty-minute playing time seems to pass reaffirms the unassuming air pervading this solo piano […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Sun Ra & His Arkestra/At Inter-Media Arts April 1991: Anyone who presumes the music of this larger-than-life jazz explorer is an impenetrable maelstrom of dissonance cum ambience will be surprised and delighted in […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Cameron Mizell – Negative Spaces: Alternately insistent and intoxicating, this album belies its title with uninterruptedly elevating sounds, most of them emanating from Mizell’s guitar, the authority and invention of which carries over into the musicianship surrounding […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith/A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM): Music of a stark simplicity arises from the dual ruminations of Vijay Iyer on piano and Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet. The two usually […]

If it begs credulity to state the music Brad Mehldau creates in a solo piano setting is more intense than that musicianship within the intricate interplay of his trio. One listen to this self-compiled, decade-spanning collection will fundamentally alter that perception. On his own as with his group, Mehldau plays with almost equal parts purpose […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Wes Montgomery/In the Beginning (Resonance):  ‘Early Recordings From 1949-1958,’ deserves the sumptuous packaging and meticulous annotation within the enclosed fifty-six page booklet because the musicianship transcends the sound quality (understandably so given it was recorded between five […]

Take Five is a jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums Stanton Moore/Conversations (The Royal Potato Family): In contrast to his groove driven leadership of Galactic as well as his own trios and funk oriented collaborations, this album is an acoustic piano trio studio set deriving from over […]

Will Bernard/Just Like Downtown (Posi-Tone): Will Bernard may never impress with his guitar flash, but in a world overstocked with self-appointed heroes of the instrument, his approach is as much of a blessing as his deceptively sophisticated skill. And it’s in keeping with his skill as much as confidence that he enters to make a […]

Pat Metheny/Tap (Nonesuch): On his selections from John Zorn’s Book of Angels, Pat Metheny oscillates wildly from the near silence of carefully picked acoustic instruments to the cacophony of electric ones whose impact is only heightened through the muscular percussion of Antonio Sanchez. Sounding at once like everything and nothing you’d expect from a Pat […]

Glide jazz writer Doug Collette takes a quick look at recent recordings from Stan Killian, Benny Green, Giovanni Moltoni, Robert Hurst and Samuel Barber Quartet.

Time Out Take Five is season jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, as this season he takes a closer look at Erik Deutsch, Luis Perdomo and more..

Given the names involved, it stands to reason this is a hard-hitting session

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