Take 5

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 – The separation and presence of the audio over the course of these roughly ninety minutes resonates like the very name of this iconic […]

Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of  Bloom (Pyroclastic Records) – The Trio of  Bloom phrase may or may not be an ironic reference to the 1979 alliance of John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams–the short-lived ‘Trio of Doom–but certainly as Ronald Shannon Jackson’s noisy “Nightwhistlers” gives way to the sweet ethereality of “Unreal Light,” […]

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.  Noah Haidu: Standards Vol. III – With what is now a trifecta of albums comprised solely of standards, pianist Noah Haidu has significantly elevated his profile as a musician and bandleader within […]

Time Out Take Five is a column that offers pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles that deserve attention and might otherwise go unnoticed. Marton Juhasz: Metropolis –  Drummer/composer/bandleader Marton Juhasz takes a sharp turn from where he left off with 2019’s Discovery. His first album since then finds him forging arrangements as ornate as the material, all […]

Time Out Take Five is a column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Peter Bernstein/Brad Mehldau/Vicente Archer/Al Foster: Better Angels – Better Angels reaffirms Peter Bernstein’s exquisite sense of taste as a musician and a bandleader. The guitarist acquits himself with great panache on a range of choice material, […]

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed. Douglas Cuomo featuring Nels Cline and the Aizuri Quartet: seven limbs – On these arrangements of poignant and provocative compositions, the wide-ranging sounds of guitarist Nels Cline’s instrument, plus electronics, […]

Time Out Take Five is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent jazz releases, spotlighting titles deserving attention that might otherwise go unnoticed.   Masabumi Kikuchi/ Hanamichi – The Final Studio Recording: The relative speed at which this album’s forty-minute playing time seems to pass reaffirms the unassuming air pervading this solo piano […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Sun Ra & His Arkestra/At Inter-Media Arts April 1991: Anyone who presumes the music of this larger-than-life jazz explorer is an impenetrable maelstrom of dissonance cum ambience will be surprised and delighted in […]

Take Five is a seasonal jazz column by Glide contributor Doug Collette, who will be taking snap-shot reviews of recent jazz albums… Cameron Mizell – Negative Spaces: Alternately insistent and intoxicating, this album belies its title with uninterruptedly elevating sounds, most of them emanating from Mizell’s guitar, the authority and invention of which carries over into the musicianship surrounding […]