Thomas Conrad

April 2024 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Thomas Conrad, Andrey Henkin  |  Apr 10, 2024
Jim Snidero: For All We Know; Noah Haidu: Standards II; Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters: CT!; Dino Betti van der Noot: Let Us Recount Our Dreams.
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March 2024 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Robert Baird, Thomas Conrad  |  Mar 07, 2024
Rufus Reid: It's the Nights I Like; Frank Sinatra: Sinatra Platinum; Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions; Nitai Hershkovits: Call on the Old Wise.
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Rabbit Holes #8: Art Pepper Lives! Or, Long Live the CD!
Rabbit Holes
Thomas Conrad  |  Feb 27, 2024
Art Pepper Photo by Laurie Pepper

That title must have gotten your attention. Not the part about Art Pepper but the part about the CD. Nobody has anything good to say about the compact disc anymore. CD sales suck. Streaming and downloads rule the world. Vinyl (an album format that warps, scratches, and has to be flipped every 22 minutes) now outsells CDs.

But the CD still deserves a place in your heart. One reason: box sets. Many of them are worthy of coveting. For example, there is an amazing new project on the Omnivore label, Art Pepper's The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings. It contains eight hours and 20 minutes of music on seven CDs. Collections that large do not lend themselves to LPs.

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February 2024 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Robert Baird, Thomas Conrad  |  Feb 09, 2024
Chien Chien Lu: Built In System; Mareike Wiening: Reveal; Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet; Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song.
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January 2024 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Thomas Conrad  |  Jan 12, 2024
Adam Birnbaum: Preludes; Simón Willson: Good Company; Joshua Redman: Where Are We.
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December 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Thomas Conrad  |  Dec 08, 2023
Johnathan Blake: Passage; Mark Turner Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension.
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November 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Robert Baird, Thomas Conrad, Larry Birnbaum  |  Nov 09, 2023
John Scofield: Uncle John's Band; Mort Garson: Journey To The Moon And Beyond; James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love; Alan Ferber Nonet: Up High, Down Low; Greg Foat & Gigi Masin: Dolphin; Avishai Cohen & Abraham Rodriguez Jr.: Iroko.
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On The Road Again, A Year Later
Music and Recording Features
Thomas Conrad  |  Nov 07, 2023
Teatro Morlacchi at Umbria. All Photos by Tim Dickeson.

It has been a year since my piece "On The Road Again: A Jazz Festival Journal From A Summer Of Plague And War" appeared, in the November 2022 issue of this magazine. It described three European jazz festivals I attended in July 2022.

In July 2023, I returned to Europe to attend two festivals. The COVID-19 plague and its fallout had significantly subsided. The war in Ukraine was still raging, but this time I didn't get near it. In 2022, I went to a festival in Romania, which borders Ukraine. In 2023, I only went to Italy.

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October 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Thomas Conrad, Andrey Henkin  |  Oct 06, 2023
Diskonife: Audible Spirits; John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate; Joe Henderson: The Complete "An Evening with Joe Henderson"; Matt Otto: Kansas City Trio.
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September 2023 Jazz Record Reviews
Music and Recording Reviews
Thomas Conrad, Andrey Henkin  |  Sep 08, 2023
Arne Jansen/Stephan Braun: Going Home; Joe Farnsworth: In What Direction Are You Headed?; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension; Dave McMurray: Grateful Deadication 2.
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