Michael Toland
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 31
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Chad Fowler/Eri Yamamoto - Polkadots & Moonbeams (Mahakala Music) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Born of a conversation in the back of a car on the way to record the landmark quartet album Sparks with Steve Hirsch and William Parker, Polkadots & Moonbeams is the first album for pianist Eri Yamamoto and Chad Fowler. But it doesn’t come across like a beginning. Instead, it sounds like we’re overhearing a conversation between dear friends who are at the point of finishing eac
Kevin Sun - Kevin Sun, I/Kevin Sun, II (Endectomorph) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun gets busy with his eight and ninth solo albums by releasing them at the same time. Closely related (what Sun describes as “a pair of video games set in the same universe”) but not mirror images of each other, Kevin Sun, I and Kevin Sun, II both consist of songs and arrangements constructed to maximize chances for improvisation, but come from v
The Kris Davis Trio featuring Robert Hurst and Johnathan Blake - Lost in Geneva (4166) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Twenty-plus years into her extraordinary career, pianist Kris Davis continues to grow. Though Lost in Geneva is only the second studio album with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake, the band sounds like it’s been together much longer – such is the deep level of the trio’s interplay. That allows Davis to push herself further and further into her own talent. That’s
Stanley Cowell Trio - Illusion Suite (ECM Luminessence) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs One of the most imaginative and exciting pianists of the seventies and beyond, the late Stanley Cowell is likely best known for his long association with Charles Tolliver and Strata-East Records. But he made music outside of that world, including a lone album for ECM: Illusion Suite, released in 1973 and looooong out of print until its re-release as part of the label’s Luminess
Benny Green - Renovation! (Sunnyside) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs If you’re in the market for a mainstream jazz pianist, Benny Green has a hell of a CV. Since his emergence in the eighties, he’s logged time with Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Oscar Peterson, Freddie Hubbard, Arnett Cobb, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He’s also got a good three decades of work as a leader, primarily a trio. But, since the early ‘aughts, Green has also become one
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