Oy! Back from what seems to be the last vacation of this summer. Let’s end the one week drought with one of the best albums of 2008, from the powerhouse sextet of the downtown scene (which I’ve been holding back since April).

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Can’t remember where I read about Steve Lehman’s 2007 effort, might be on Allaboutjazz or Downtown, but I was intrigued to see this 28 year old (same age as me!) saxophonist named on top of best album charts. After hunting down his “On Meaning” album on Pi Recordings, which is home to the who’s who [...]

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Back to intellectual music after a week or so of party music and easy listening now that the weather is a bleak gray again. It’s easy to classify me as an aspirant layman in avant jazz & rock & contemporary classic, that’s why I haven’t heard of Aka Moon, before a trio composed of [...]

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Mr. Texier is one of France’s well known contemporary jazz musicians especially with his partnership with Aldo Romano and Louis Sclavis, which I’ve talked about before here.

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I’ve been on the jazz tip for a while and probably will continue to do so now that autumn is on the way. Today I’ve got 2 albums to mention, one is Brian Lynch’s joint effort with legendary pianist Eddie Palmieri called “Simpático” and the other one is the debut cd of 21 year old [...]

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