JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Autumn 2022
PopMatters jazz critic Will Layman rounds up the best new jazz albums of recent vintage, including some thoughts about the US festival season and the undersung virtuoso Warren Wolf.
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Tony Malaby’s Sabino Comes Out from Under the Turnpike with Sonic Power
Saxophonist Tony Malaby reconvenes his Sabino band, emerging from a set of concerts under the New Jersey Turnpike with an unfussy quartet date that’s wide open.
Jazz Guitarist Ben Monder’s ‘Day After Day’ Is a Quiet Stunner
Guitarist Ben Monder has created a quiet stunner: one disc of inventive solo guitar arrangements of standards, and then a second disc for his trio playing pop hits of the '60s and '70s in wonderful ways.
Dan Weiss Forms His Dream Band to Play His Nightmare Music
Dan Weiss' Starebaby is both terrifying and thoughtful. The balance it achieves might be even more terrifying.
PRISM Quartet: People’s Emergency Center
Long known for performing commissioned works, PRISM Quartet release a double album of original material. It is staggeringly wonderful.