Joy In Spite Of Everything (ECM) The title of Easy Healing is perfect: a pick-me-up song riding on a breeze of calypso charm. Stefano Bollani, the exceptional Italian pianist long associated with Enrico Rava, could well have written this with Bill Frisell in mind, so perfectly does the guitarist’s elfin…
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Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg ‘72 (ECM/Fuse) Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Fuse) Jim Black Trio: Actuality (Winter & Winter/Birdland) By the age of two he was singing professionally. “Yodelling Cowboy Charlie”, they called him. That was in the Haden Family Band, a star attraction on the US country music…
John Coltrane: Offering (Verve) Trevor Watts: Veracity (FMR) Cedar Walton: Reliving the Moment (HighNote/Planet) Various Artists: Black Fire! New Spirits! (Soul Jazz) He changed the lives of listeners, and he changed the course of jazz. John Coltrane inspired people to take up the saxophone or rethink the way they…