11-12-2021 JAZZ.MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 2013-2021 (3h 23m)# Ron Miles, Bremer/McCoy, Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, Jeff Parker, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Chick Corea + Steve Gadd, Jeremy Pelt, Esperanza Spalding, Ben Williams, Nels Cline Singers, Thundercat
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A highly regarded trumpeter, composer, and educator, Ron Miles is a progressive artist with a bent toward harmonically nuanced, genre-bending jazz. A star of the Denver, Colorado jazz scene and a longtime professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Miles is a lauded performer who has worked as both a leader and a collaborator with such similarly inclined luminaries as Bill Frisell and Fred Hess. Miles' sound has a warm, rounded, signature tone.
Like Those Who Dream (Ron Miles) 15:56
Average (Ron Miles) 11:12
The Rumor (Ron Miles) 4:30
from Rainbow Sign 2020
Rainbow Sign is trumpeter/composer Ron Miles' debut recording for Blue Note. He re-enlists the same intuitive quintet who played on 2017's I Am a Man. It features guitarist Bill Frisell, pianist Jason Moran, bassist Thomas Morgan, and drummer Brian Blade. Written during the summer of 2018 while caring for his dying father, these nine compositions were intended to provide empathy, peace, love, and reassurance to his transitioning parent and his family. Clocking in at over 71 minutes, Rainbow Sign bridges polytonal modal music, blues, gospel, post-bop, and pop...
Danish duo Bremer/McCoy make atmospheric jazz- and dub-influenced instrumental music. Weaving together acoustic and electronic sounds, they evoke the languid '70s ECM work of artists like Keith Jarrett and Ralph Towner, as well as new age artists like Mike Oldfield and Klaus Schulze...
Natten 5:37
Gratitude 3:12
Måneskin 2:44
from Natten 2021
Named after the Danish word for "The Night," Natten is Bremer/McCoy's hypnotic fifth album and second for the Luaka Bop label. It follows the Danish instrumental duo's equally engaging 2019 album Utopia and again finds them building an expansive dreamscape that touches upon jazz, classical, and electronic sounds. The group features bassist Jonathan Bremer and keyboardist/tape delay artist Morten McCoy... It's an organic, spectral atmosphere, the kind that begs to be heard in surround sound or through headphones in one extended session. With Natten, Bremer/McCoy successfully evoke the dark glow of the night sky, a sound that is vast and enrapturing.
A highly adept singer and writer who possesses a resonant baritone and four-octave range, Kurt Elling has won a global fan base, numerous awards, and countless accolades for his distinctive brand of vocal jazz. Given the depth and vision of his recordings and his theatrical performance style, an Elling concert can contain ranting, beat poetry, dramatically sung readings of Garcia Lorca and Rainier Maria Rilke, and tunes by Ellington, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and the Beatles, complete with hard-swinging scat.
SuperBlue (Kurt Elling / Benard Ingher) 4:45
Manic Panic Epiphanic (Kurt Elling / Corey Fonville / DJ Harrison / Charlie Hunter) 5:29
Can't Make It With Your Brain )Kurt Elling / Corey Fonville / Phil Galdston / DJ Harrison / Charlie Hunter)
from SuperBlue 2021
A collaboration with guitarist Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue finds vocalist Kurt Elling exploring a sophisticated funk and soul sound. Hunter, who plays here and also produced the album, is primarily known for his fusion-informed jazz and adventurous, funk-influenced projects like Garage a Trois. However, he has also made significant contributions to albums by forward-thinking neo-soul and R&B artists, including D'Angelo and Frank Ocean. It's this deep grasp of those funky, groove-oriented vibes that he brings to his work with Elling on SuperBlue. Also contributing are Butcher Brown bandmates drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison, who bring their own hip-hop sensibilities to the proceedings... SuperBlue certainly straddles the line between electric jazz fusion and groove-based neo-soul, with a heavy leaning toward the latter. While there are some superb solo moments here from Hunter, not to mention dazzling sections of vocal gymnastics by Elling, the focus is less on post-bop improvisation and more on a song's overall vibe. For Elling and Hunter, the choice feels purposeful and right for the funky, organic nature of these songs. SuperBlue is an ebullient and creative production that further underlines Elling's dynamic and endlessly adaptable vocal skills, regardless of genre.
