In case you missed the last one…
Sean Wayland, Expensive Habit (Seed): The pianist/keyboardist makes beautiful music out of the nearly unplayable. Guitarist James Muller is someone I hadn’t heard before, and I hope to hear much more.
Charles Evans, Ballads (self-released): Beautiful originals and classics too from the baritone saxist, with weird harmonic twists and two lovely appearances by another new (to me) guitarist, Erik Dutko.
Blue Collar, _Is an Apparition (Rossbin): Wild sonic landscapes for trumpet (Nate Wooley), trombone (Steve Swell) and percussion (Tatsuya Nakatani).
Alex Machacek/Jeff Sipe/Matthew Garrison, Improvision (Abstract Logix): Power fusion madness, with deep harmonic and contrapuntal secrets.
McCoy Tyner, Quartet (Half Note): Surging and pentatonically bluesy after all these years, live at the Blue Note with Joe Lovano, Christian McBride and Jeff “Tain” Watts.
Terence Blanchard, A Tale of God’s Will (Blue Note): A meditation on Katrina. Hear Blanchard’s phenomenal quintet (w. Brice Winston, Aaron Parks, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott) while it’s still together. The lush backgrounds are cool, but it’s the five-piece skeleton that makes the music work.
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