All About Jazz Album Reviews

: OJC Piano Greatness: Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans (Mon, 30 Jun 2025)
Having been a source of quality reissues back when vinyl was still king, it is fitting that the Original Jazz Classics series has returned now that the vinyl renaissance continues to carry on full-force among the music-buying public. Now in its second full year of releases, Craft Recordings continues to mine its impressive back catalog for reissues that cover a good deal of ground while offering quality and value to boot... [ read more ]
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Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers (Mon, 30 Jun 2025)
Musical memories from childhood have a way of sticking. For some, it might be an encounter with Beethoven from a dusty stack of old albums packed away in the parental record collection. For others, it might be the (then, 1954) modern surge of Bill Haley and the Comets shaking, rattling and rolling into the kitchen to make some noise with the pots and pans... [ read more ]
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Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus: The Children and The Warlock (Mon, 30 Jun 2025)
A parodist might quip that Trio Contrafactus is simply another name for a quartet, as that is what pianist and entreprenuer Spike Wilner is leading on his new recording, The Children and the Warlock, wherein Wilner and his rhythm section (Paul Gill, bass; Anthony Pinciotti, drums) are flanked by renowned tenor saxophonist George Garzone... [ read more ]
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