All About Jazz critic David Adler named The Giant Pin as one of his top ten albums of the year, alongside new releases by Andrew Hill, Craig Taborn and Louis Sclavis. Not bad company, I'd say! Jenny Scheinman, violinist with the Scott Amendola Band on the Crypto album Cry, also got a nod from writer Andrey Henkin for her Shalagaster disc on Tzadik. Check out AAJ's "best of" feature in full by clicking here.
Also recently published: Fernando Gonzalez of Jazziz named Darek Oles' Like A Dream as a noteworthy release. The album also received a positive review of in Signal To Noise, no mean feat given STN's predilection for the outer realms of the jazz world. Here's an excerpt:
"...the sensitivity and great musicianship of the players involved...lifts them to a fairly rarefied musical world. That’s where the duets with Mehldau belong...The seven selections by two different Los Angeles quartets are scarcely less good, with Larry Koonse’s wistful Abercrombian lyricism and a cameo by old friend Bennie Maupin the highlights. But it’s the writing and the duets that get your attention on Like A Dream, a CD that should help Oles make a name for himself, however long he chooses that name to be."
What a year it's been for Cryptogramophone. We'll see you in '05!
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