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LatinJazzNet: “On his debut album Impressions, with The Latinbaum Jazz Ensemble, Israel Tanenbaum not only shows why he is so much in-demand for film and score projects, but just how he wields his craftsmanship into a singular artform.”

Tanenbaum on keyboards and John Benitez on bass anchor the show, and an army of guests move through to complete the boisterous album. Israel has produced >50 and played on >100 albums, since the mid 80s, but this is his personal debut album. Based on this, he can't stop now...

Jazz is dead, huh? Here’s 4 recent debut album posts: Mthunzi Mvubu, The 1st Gospel; A Plane To Catch, Moko Jumbie; Margherita Fava, Tatatu; Sultan Stevenson, Faithful One.

Israel Tanenbaum & The Latinbaum Jazz Ensemble, Impressions, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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Here’s the 2007 Grammy for Latin Jazz Album winner, the Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project Simpatico. This’ll drive away the blues.

Allmusic: “Sonically, Simpatico is probably the finest work that Lynch has to his credit. There's a good deal of stylistic variety, which keeps the group out of the Latin jazz-mambo rut. The tunes breathe, and the exchanges between players are interesting, fresh and constant.”

Trombonist Conrad Herwig, saxxists Greg Tardy and Phil Woods, bassist Boris Koslov and drummer Dafnis Prieto help.

Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project, Simpatico, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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Time for another Tuesday 25, albums from a quarter-century ago, 1998.

Saxophonist Joshua Redman released his ~8th album in 1998, Timeless Tales (For Changing Times). Brad Mehldau (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) and Brian Blade (drums) complete the ‘technically faultless band’. A mix of old and ‘new’ standards. A solid, dynamic, selection from his discography.

Previously (link to upthread). Grammy Best Album for: Instrumental, Herbie Hancock Gershwin’s World; Big Band, Count Basie Orch. Count Plays Duke; Latin, Arturo Sandoval Hot House. And: Joanne Brackeen Pink Elephant Magic; Don Sebesky I Remember Bill; Erik Truffaz The Dawn; Phil Woods The Rev And I; Charlie Mariano An American In Italy.

Joshua Redman, Timeless Tales (For Changing Times), full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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AllAboutJazz: “A Little Optimism, trombonist Brendan Lanighan believes, can often go a long way. That is the essential message of the Lanighan Octet's debut recording, a pleasurable pastiche of mostly original compositions… An ardent and colorful debut by a talented group of musicians who play with focus and enthusiasm.”

Jazz is dead? Here’s 5 recent debut album posts: Mthunzi Mvubu, The 1st Gospel; A Plane To Catch, Moko Jumbie; Margherita Fava, Tatatu; Sultan Stevenson, Faithful One; Israel Tanenbaum Impressions.

Brendan Lanighan Octet, A Little Optimism, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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BestOfJazz: “Besides being one of the most in-demand bassists in the modern-jazz realm, Grammy winner Linda May Han Oh slowly but surely manages to develop her own universe through her projects as a leader and composer. The Glass Hours… is so uniquely Oh. Thanks to her personal touch and creativity, she delivers a superb album.

Linda May Han Oh: electric and acoustic bass, voice; Mark Turner: tenor saxophone; Sara Serpa: voice; Fabian Almazan: piano, electronics; Obed Calvaire: drums.”

Linda played on this year's Grammy Best Instrumental Jazz Album, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s New Standards Vol. 1, recommended upthread. This is her ~6th album since 2009. The video is a live album tune.

Linda May Han Oh, The Glass Hours, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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SomethingElse!: “Featuring Guido Spannocchi on saxes, Ruth Goller on bass, Danny Keane on piano, and Pete Adam Hill on drums, Live at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, is engaging jazz music at its best… The tracks are originals, and the attraction of this music is how it is firmly embedded in tradition yet has a strong connection with the present.”

Guido is Vienna born and London based. This is his ~5th album since 2017. Nice recording of a tenor sax quartet show.

Guido Spannocchi, Live At Porgy & Bess, Vienna, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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Here’s Friday 50, albums from 50 years ago, or 1973. Time for some big band. Trumpeter Don Ellis released ~35 albums from 1960 to 1978, many of them big band and film scores, e.g. the 1971 Oscar Best Film ‘French Connection’, which earned him a Grammy.

Allmusic: “Ellis' Soaring orchestra has 7 brass (& tuba), 4 strong woodwind players, a string quartet, and an enlarged six-piece rhythm section that includes keyboardist Milcho Leviev. Ellis composed 4 of the 8 tunes." The album earned a Grammy nomination.

Sadly, this was the last album before a heart attack curtailed his career, and eventually his life in 1978. This is good big band, by a composer/arranger at the top of his game.

Previously (links to upthread): Dave Brubeck We’re All Together Again...; Gato Barbieri Bolivia; Elvin Jones Mr. Jones; Donald Byrd Black Byrd; Dave Liebman First Visit.

Don Ellis, Soaring, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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Saw her live last weekend - it was a highly enjoyable concert.

 

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My Collection Monday (LP), from 1979. Allmusic: On Lenox Avenue Breakdown, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe’s “red-hot band of collaborators include James Blood Ulmer on guitar, Bob Stewart on tuba, flutist James Newton, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Jack DeJohnette… Over 20 [now 44] years later, Lenox Avenue Breakdown still sounds new and different and ranks among the finest albums in his catalog.” Cool album cover by Mark Hess. Goes a bit free at times, it is Arthur Blythe...

This was the 5th of his ~22 albums from 1977 to 2003.

Arthur Blythe, Lenox Avenue Breakdown, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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AllAboutJazz: “Jamaican trombonist Don Drummond (1934-1969), is the inspiration for Routes, the new album by Swiss trombonist and ska aficionado Samuel Blaser. Drummond fronted his band the Skatalites, who morphed Jamaican jazz into ska in the early 1960s.

The multi-national band includes such luminaries as alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch, keyboard player Alex Wilson and fellow trombonist Steve Turre.

Blaser was keen for Routes to retain the assertive, rough-hewn character of first-generation ska, and equally keen to avoid making a straight-up tribute album. He succeeds on both fronts; the performances are in the spirit yet fresh and inventive; it is music to listen to as much as it is music to dance to.”

This is Blaser's ~25th album since 2008. Steve Turre's latest album Generations was recommended upthread.

Samuel Blaser, Routes, full album: YouTube link ; Spotify link

 

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