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Jean-Michel Pilc’s Essential Combines Great Wit and Great Chops
Jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc’s new live solo album Essential is just out on Motéma, and it’s a match of astonishing chops and playful wit, in fact, one of Pilc’s best creations. A defiant advocate of...
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Monty Alexander’s New Live Album: Yeah Mon!
In case you haven’t heard, Monty Alexander has a new live album out. More elegant and urbane but no less fun than his ecstatic, paradigm-shaping reggae-jazz albums like 1995′s Yard Movement and 2004′s...
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A Moving Sound Puts Their Original Spin on Ancient Chinese Music
Taiwanese group A Moving Sound’s music is not deferential or folkloric, at least in the sense that it tries to fossilize a traditional musical style for the same of mass appeal, or for yuppie cultural...
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Believe It: The Cookers’ New Album Is Amazing
The Cookers’ 2010 album Warriors ranked as one of that year’s top ten jazz albums here: how does their new one, Believe, just out from Motema, stack up alongside it? It’s different, and it’s even...
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Rich, Nuanced Vocals and Eclectic Songwriting from Jana Herzen
It’s easy to be cynical about Jana Herzen’s new album Passion of a Lonely Heart. For one, the idea of a label head (she runs Motema) putting out a record brings to mind things like Leonard Chess’...
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