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today at 3:39 pm
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/10/07/best-bandcamp-jazz-september-2019/
This year is shaping up to be one of the best ever for jazz. September?like every other month this year?contained too much great music to capture in a single column. Not only did two of the greatest musicians on the modern scene release new music, but a clutch of exciting new ensembles make their formidable debuts.
Guillermo Klein?s Los Guachos ensemble are to the modern scene what Art Blakey?s Jazz Messengers were to hard bop, or Weather Report to the fusion era. The pianist values thoughtful compositions and free-flowing improvisation equally, integrating folk music and blues, and creating modern song forms that don?t necessarily swing, but sway with a familiar motion. The balance between something old and something new is increasingly weighted toward the latter. His melodies often possess a striking beauty that is deceptively simple. The ensemble has been comprised of the all-stars of the modern scene, names like Miguel Zenon, Ben Monder, Taylor Haskins, Fernando Hergo, and Chris Cheek, who grace so many of the modern era?s best recordings, and whose individual sounds coalesce into music as sublime as it is dramatic. Klein possesses an immense talent for making a composition that clocks in at a mere six minutes feel like an epic journey. When historians attempt to pinpoint the modern equivalent to 1959, they will almost certainly select a year that saw a Guillermo Klein Los Guachos recording hit the shelves. Hell, it may even be 2019.
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Odron Ritual Orchestra [...]
Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette
The Ambiguity Manifesto [...]
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today at 3:39 pm
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/10/07/best-bandcamp-jazz-september-2019/
This year is shaping up to be one of the best ever for jazz. September?like every other month this year?contained too much great music to capture in a single column. Not only did two of the greatest musicians on the modern scene release new music, but a clutch of exciting new ensembles make their formidable debuts.
Guillermo Klein?s Los Guachos ensemble are to the modern scene what Art Blakey?s Jazz Messengers were to hard bop, or Weather Report to the fusion era. The pianist values thoughtful compositions and free-flowing improvisation equally, integrating folk music and blues, and creating modern song forms that don?t necessarily swing, but sway with a familiar motion. The balance between something old and something new is increasingly weighted toward the latter. His melodies often possess a striking beauty that is deceptively simple. The ensemble has been comprised of the all-stars of the modern scene, names like Miguel Zenon, Ben Monder, Taylor Haskins, Fernando Hergo, and Chris Cheek, who grace so many of the modern era?s best recordings, and whose individual sounds coalesce into music as sublime as it is dramatic. Klein possesses an immense talent for making a composition that clocks in at a mere six minutes feel like an epic journey. When historians attempt to pinpoint the modern equivalent to 1959, they will almost certainly select a year that saw a Guillermo Klein Los Guachos recording hit the shelves. Hell, it may even be 2019.
Светлост
Odron Ritual Orchestra [...]
Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette
The Ambiguity Manifesto [...]
[...]
