Elsa Nilsson New York, New York
For the past decade Elsa Nilsson has explored unlikely connections among tendencies of human nature, contradiction and pluralism and the natural world. Her breadth of work engages urgency, high-level improvising and layered, cinematic orchestration; her artistry, an earnest and actionable desire to collaborate with multimodal artists and the changing world around her. ... more
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This album feels as if it could have been released in the late 50's, except for it's thoroughly modern approach. It's first class musicians working with first class material. It's been a consistent 'go-to' album since I purchased it.
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This is the way JAZZ should sound and feel!
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Wake An Echo
by Matt Ulery's Loom
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This is a album I've gone back to several times. Matt lets his group play, and play they do. All of these pieces fell like full-group efforts, not written by a bassist to feature bass. Some songs feel driven, some searching, some making statements. Outstanding.
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Robyn Rocket and People You May Of Heard Of : Connection EP
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Improvised free jazz from a subversive UK artist who specializes in "space trumpet," a guitar pedal-enabled form of brass instrumentation.
go to albumThis new album from the Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter addresses contemporary Indigenous life.
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This is one of the albums that really sweep me away, no matter which track I'm listening to, and its pleasantly long running time of almost 80 minutes guarantees a maximum sweeping effect. Basically, Matt Ulery is a jazz musician and composer playing the double bass, but the magic he creates on this and other albums is well beyond the confines of the genre. The brilliant varied orchestrations clearly put it into a neo-classical chamber music frame, frequently reminding me of Argentine chamber folk, and the smooth vocals contributed by Grażyna Auguścik and Sarah Marie Young add considerably to the magic, as does the piano work of Rob Clearfield, who's a great composer himself.
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