JazzTimes – October 2019

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NORAH JONES

BEGIN AGAIN

Saxophone master JAMES CARTER makes his

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A soulfully robust dispatch from America’s most

storied jazz festival, it’s also a follow-up of sorts to

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that The New Yorker called “an alternately

reverent and audacious tribute to the Belgian

swing-guitar legend DJANGO REINHARDT. It

may be the rambunctious saxophone

player’s recorded masterpiece.”

With 10 million albums sold to date and a
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celebrated musician with loyal fans in every corner of
the globe. His incredible new album TallerLVDWUDFN
journey that shows Jamie revealing a vulnerability and
raw truth-telling that is both powerful and intimate.
Featuring singles “Taller,” “Drink” and “The Age of
Anxiety,” Taller bravely explores subject matter which
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a desire to grow and learn and explore life for the
beautiful muddle it is.

JOEL ROSS

KINGMAKER

RON CARTER AND DANNY SIMMONS

THE BROWN BEATNIK TOMES – LIVE AT BRIC HOUSE

TONE POET SERIES

ALL-ANALOG AUDIOPHILE VINYL

JAMES CARTER

JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO:

LIVE FROM NEWPORT JAZZ

JAMIE CULLUM

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singer-songwriter NORAH JONES will release

Begin Again, a collection of singles that

gathers seven eclectic songs that Jones has

recorded over the past year with

collaborators including JEFF TWEEDY

and THOMAS BARTLETT.

Recorded during the middle of DEXTER GORDON’S

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tenor saxophone legend joined by FREDDIE

HUBBARD on trumpet, BARRY HARRIS on piano,

BOB CRANSHAW on bass, and BILLY HIGGINS on

drums. This album is part of the Tone Poet Series:

all-analog audiophile vinyl reissues supervised by

JOE HARLEY and mastered from the original analog

tape by KEVIN GRAY. The records are manufactured

at Record Technology Inc. (RTI) on 180g vinyl in

Deluxe Gatefold Packaging. For more titles from the

Tone Poet Series visit store.bluenote.com.

An impressive debut album from an incredible young

artist who has been omnipresent on acclaimed recent

albums by MAKAYA MCCRAVEN (Universal Beings),

WALTER SMITH III (In Common), MARQUIS HILL

(Modern Flows, Vol. 2), and JAMES FRANCIES (Flight).

Now Joel carries the Blue Note vibraphone legacy into

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formative stuff that made him the man he is,

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A unique and powerful collaboration between the

artist and poet DANNY SIMMONS and legendary

jazz bassist RON CARTER. This live recording

from BRIC House in Brooklyn captured Simmons

reading poetry from his collection of prose

The Brown Beatnik Tomes with projections of his

own striking Abstract Expressionist paintings

providing the stage backdrop while Carter

performed solo accompaniment along with

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