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July 2025 Jazz Record Reviews

Harvey Diamond/John Lentz: how strange the road should be so easy
Diamond, piano; Lentz, vocals
Orchard of Pomegranates 006 (CD). 2025. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, prod.; Craig Welsch, eng.
Performance ****
Sonics ****

If there was ever a sleeper album, this is it. This is John Lentz's recording debut, at 76. He has been involved with music his whole life but has never quite had a professional career until now. Harvey Diamond makes his recording debut as a leader, at 82. He was one of Lennie Tristano's last students and has been an underground figure on the Boston jazz scene for…

It's On Tape

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