John Hilderbrand
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Review: Jason Miles – Miles To Miles
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Jason Miles has put together an awesome contemporary jazz recording to help start 2005 in a kick-ass fashion. His Miles To Miles recording is “in the spirit of Miles Davis.” It’s not an album of covers of Miles’ tunes (except…
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Review: Dianne Reeves – Christmas Time Is Here
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I’ve always thought jazz is the best genre for Christmas music. The intimacy of the jazz trio especially can make for some of the most enjoyable music of the holiday season. Multi-Grammy winning vocalist Dianne Reeves proves this on her…
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Soul Shadows by Joe Sample
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If you heard “The Texas Two Step” from his previous release The Pecan Tree and hoped that Joe Sample would do an entire recording of music like that, you’re in luck. Sample has released a solo piano recording called Soul…
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Harmony & Abyss by Matthew Shipp
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While listening to Harmony and Abyss, the latest release by Matthew Shipp, the word futuristic keeps coming to mind. So if it’s “future” music, then when do we reach that future? I’m thinking we’re there now. Shipp takes a step…
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Incognito – Adventures In Black Sunshine
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Incognito comes full circle with Adventures in Black Sunshine, the new recording out now on Rice/Narada. In the mid to late 90s, leader Bluey steered the band away from the jazzier sounds that were its trademark into dance/pop/funk tunes. The…