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Bruce Barth, Live at the Vill…
One good thing about jazz is that it can be made persuasively without rei… more »
Kenny Garrett, Pushing The Wo…
It is good to have Kenny Garrett back so firmly in the driver’s sea… more »
Mike Wofford, It’s Pers…
Occasionally I’ll play Wofford for friends, savvy listeners who, ne… more »
Rashied Ali, At the Vision Fe…
Time has revealed drummer Rashied Ali as one of the key figures during a … more »
Jimmy Webb, Still Within The …
In retrospect, having Jimmy Webb record new versions of classic songs fro… more »
Dave Holland & Prism, Pr…
To call Prism (both the name of this album and Dave Holland’s new a… more »
Cécile McLorin Salvant…
Few modern jazz debuts have been as audacious and confident as 23-year-ol… more »
Ethan Iverson, Costumes Are M…
The Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson has assembled a fascinating quartet co… more »
Henri Texier, Respect…
Bassist Henri Texier’s Respect resonates with a quiet strength … more »
Chris Morrissey, North Hero…
Bassist Chris Morrissey’s sophomore effort is approachably left-of-… more »
Steve Swallow Quintet, Into T…
Probably the most underrated aspect of Steve Swallow’s music is the… more »
Various Artists, The Naughty …
Some things never change. Seduction and courtship rituals have always bee… more »
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, …
It’s hard to imagine there’s anything the Preservation Hall J… more »
Jeff Williams, The Listener…
Pianoless quartets with alto sax and trumpet on the front line inevitably… more »
Kris Davis, Capricorn Climber…
Pianist/composer Kris Davis is a patient musician. And she expects her co… more »
Mark Dresser and Mark Helias,…
Duet acoustic bass albums aren’t without precedent in jazz, but the… more »
The Bruce Gertz Quintet, Open…
In jazz, as in many things, how one achieves a high profile is determined… more »
Johnny Smith, Walk, Don…
I first heard his song from the Ventures, like many others painstakingly … more »
Bill Frisell, Big Sur…
Guitarist Bill Frisell has spent a career making strange and beautiful mu… more »
Orrin Evans, …It Was B…
Orrin Evans delights and excels at subverting jazz clichés. A crea… more »
Eric Revis, City of Asylum…
Andrew Cyrille is a 72-year-old drummer who spent a decade stoking the fi… more »
Ketil Bjørnstad, La Nott…
La Notte was commissioned by the Norway Molde International Jazz Festival… more »
Roscoe Mitchell, Not Yet…
This is Roscoe Mitchell’s finest classical album yet. And, interest… more »
George Benson, Inspiration (A…
The emotional touchstone and title explanation for Inspiration arrives on… more »
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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal
By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »