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Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on ‘In Common 2’
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Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens Make New Jazz So Easy to Love on ‘In Common 2’

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 / 24 June 2020

Two of the top players in modern jazz make the second in a sequence of quintet recordings that presents jazz as unusually easy to love even as it maintains modern complexity.

The Best Jazz of 2017
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The Best Jazz of 2017

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 / 28 November 2017

The best and most exciting jazz of 2017 is increasingly happening at the intersection of different streams of music. Reveling in a diversity of influences and therefore a kind of complexity makes it "art music", inevitably.

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Church
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Mark de Clive-Lowe: Church

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 / 17 July 2014
Electronic jazz mashup artist Mark de Clive-Lowe collages together a breathtaking masterpiece.
Nir Felder – “Ernest /Protector” (stream) (Premiere)
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Nir Felder – “Ernest /Protector” (stream) (Premiere)

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 / 14 January 2014
PopMatters premieres "Ernest / Protector", one of the flashier tracks from jazz guitarist Nir Felder's forthcoming debut album Golden Age.
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Chris Potter Underground: Follow the Red Line

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 / 13 December 2007
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Dave Holland Quintet: Critical Mass

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 / 6 October 2006