One Track Mind: Nick Hempton, “Catch and Release” (2014)
Write, record and release a new jazz tune every six weeks for a year? Nick Hempton could be onto something good.
Write, record and release a new jazz tune every six weeks for a year? Nick Hempton could be onto something good.
Another well-developed mixture of smooth jazz, and adult contemporary music.
A private, warmhearted meeting of minds – and we were allowed to listen in.
Like Piazza himself, this restless delight never stays in one place for long.
For every ‘Fragile,’ Yes has several other projects that are routinely ignored.
Catchy, but ultimately a bit less compelling than other ‘Gaucho’ outtakes.
Sturdy rock and roll that pays tribute to its influences without sounding trite.
This album is filled with deep lyrical specifity, and musicianship that goes even deeper.
‘e’ reinvigorated Belew, even as it shepherded his new collaborators to wider notice.
Kali Z. Fasteau’s spontaneous composition theory might be forty years old, but it’s quite alive and well in practice today, no matter what she choose to play in carrying it out. On piano, it’s a downright rapturous.