May 2024 Jazz Record Reviews stereophile.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stereophile.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Arne Jansen/Stephan Braun: Going Home Jansen, electric and acoustic guitars; Braun, 5-string cello, bass Herzog 901101HER (CD). 2023. Jansen, Arne Schumann, Josef Bach, prods.; Schumann, Bach, engs. Performance Sonics ½ If you don't love Dire Straits, either you're too young to remember the '80s or lack good taste. Mark Knopfler was one of the anointed. "Money for Nothing" and "Telegraph Road" are immortal. "Sultans of Swing" is as perfect a song as rock'n'roll ever gave birth to.
Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place Laubrock, tenor and soprano saxophones; Mazz Swift, violin; Tomeka Reid, cello; Brandon Seabrook, guitar; Michael Formanek, bass; Tom Rainey, drums Pyroclastic PR24 (auditioned on CD). 2023. Laubrock, prod.; Nick Lloyd, eng. Performance ½ Sonics ½
Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.