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Guitarist Greg Skaff s latest album,
Polaris, finds the former Wichitan and longtime New York City resident accompanied by two of the greatest living jazz players: bassist Ron Carter and drummer Albert Tootie Heath.
Comprised of original material from Skaff as well as a bevy of standards, the record demonstrates Skaff s particular genius on his instrument, including his singular phrasing and the ability to reimagine standards in such a way that renders them new.
Not a small feat, but then neither is recruiting two legends for your record and finishing the LP at the dawn of a pandemic.
Polaris, as Skaff tells it, was tracked in two quick bursts of activity: The first in August 2019 and the second in March 2020, amid circumstances that were filled with levity (in the case of Carter and Heath reuniting for the first time in decades) and gravity (the arrival of COVID-19 and the fate of sessions hanging in the balance).
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Jessica Ackerley is a musician whose artistic pursuits are relentless. The Canadian-born guitarist spent the last several years in New York City, tearing down musical boundaries as a member of experimental bands like Prima, Gold Dime, Jazz Bras Dot Com, and ESSi, and even found time to record some inventive, skronky jazz combo solo albums,
Coalesce (2017) and
A New Kind of Water (2019). In 2020, she released collaborations with Uruguayan guitarist Federico Musso and Los Angeles-based saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi. Earlier this year, Ackerley relocated to Hawaii, but not before recording her first true full-length solo album,
While she doesn’t have any other musicians backing her up on this new album, there’s plenty of outside inspiration that brought these compositions and recordings to life. Two of her greatest mentors, guitarists Vic Juris and Bobby Cairns, passed away over the last couple of years, the latter from COVID-19. As a way of dealing with these tre
Stanley Cowell, versatile and innovative jazz pianist, dies at 79
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
Dec. 20, 2020
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Stanley Cowell, a jazz pianist of remarkable virtuosity and range, whose music borrowed from his interest in African, classical and experimental styles while remaining in the mainstream tradition, died Dec. 17 at a hospital in Dover, Del. He was 79.
The cause was hypovolemic shock, a sudden loss of blood and other vital fluids, said his wife, Sylvia Cowell.
Cowell, who had homes in Upper Marlboro, Md., and Camden, Del., expanded the vocabulary of jazz with an approach that was simultaneously cerebral and earthy. He had more than 30 recordings as a leader and appeared on recordings and in performance with countless major jazz figures.
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