Pianist Frank Woeste has been helming a project, which to our chagrin we are only now learning about, called “The Libretto Dialogues”, in which he duets with other key figures of the jazz cognoscenti including Mark Turner, Tigran Hamasyan, and Larry Grenadier, akin to saxophonist Ben Wendel’s "The Seasons" Project. It goes to show that great minds think alike or maybe that … [Read more...]
Best Jazz Albums of 2010 by Nextbop.com
It was rather difficult putting together a list of the best jazz albums of 2010. Unlike our list of non-jazz albums, there didn’t seem to be a massive sense of agreement in all the different jazz writers. Sure, some albums matched up here and there, but by and large, 2010 didn’t have everyone walking lockstep behind a Vijay Iyer’s Historicity or Darcy James Argue’s Secret … [Read more...]