Well, it's Top 10 List time again. And while it's impossible to hear all of the several hundred jazz albums that come out each year, it's still a fun and challenging enterprise to make a best of list. So what follows is a list of what I considered to be the top 10 albums that …
Continue reading Outside Inside Out’s Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2012
As publicists who send me review copies can attest, unless I'm working with a magazine deadline, I rarely write CD reviews close to an album's release date (I'm finishing up one such review today, in fact) - usually it's a few weeks late. On rare occasions, I'll review one far in advance - which from …
Continue reading Out this week: the must hear album from Rivers/Holland/Altschul
Jon Irabagon, Foxy (Hot Cup 102) The cover of Foxy, the scintillating new disc from saxophonist Jon Irabagon, immediately forces its viewer to think of Sonny Rollins. ...Ok, check that, only if the viewer is previously aware of Way Out West, but let's hold a discussion of semiotics, the responsibility of the reader and constellations …
