Perfect Traveler, the new album from Yosef Gutman, continues his illuminating exploration of the human spirit and his invocation of hope, gratitude, peace, and resolve.
Yosef Gutman Settles and Opens the Heart
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Happy Birthday, Thelonious, from Guitarist Miles Okazaki
On October 16 and again on October 18, 2024, at the Jazz Gallery in New York, guitarist Miles Okazaki presented a solo performance of the entire songbook of Thelonious Monk, which was filmed by Frank Heath and produced by David Breskin. The film, Monkathon, and related materials about this prodigious project will be available free to the public in perpetuity at monkathon.com on Monk’s 109th birthday, October 10, 2026. Also on that date, Okazaki will reissue his 2018 six-disc solo album of Monk’s songbook, Work—unavailable since the sellout of the original printing—on CD on the Cygnus Recordings label.
New Stuff—at Last
Over the past two or three months, a number of personal and professional commitments have greatly reduced the time available for listening to and reviewing new releases, and I’ve watched quite a few pass under the Bridge of Timely Review and out to sea. So I hope now to get up to speed again with some short reviews of new and newish releases, such as El Arte del Bolero from Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo, Mar Adentro from Oscar Rossignoli, and Illumination from Alex Murzyn.
Love Unfold the Moon Celebrates First Release
In the wake of the latest acclaimed release from Mustafa Stefan Dill’s Love Unfold the Sun, Explode Yourself, the ever-inventive, ever-expressive Dill (guitar, oud) brings a new free-improv quartet, Love Unfold the Moon, to the stage at Entropy Gallery in Santa Fe on July 11 to celebrate its first release, Hidden Promises in Joined Terrains, Apex Emerging. (On July 2, Love Unfold the Sun will make a much-anticipated appearance at the Outpost in Albuquerque.)
Yvonne Rogers: An Impressive Young Pianist with an Old Soul
The Button Jar, the solo release from pianist and composer Yvonne Rogers, presents a singular and compelling new voice on the instrument that reflects a wisdom beyond her years.