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“With this record, I’m not trying to punish you,” Ndegeocello says of No More Water. “I’m trying to help you heal.”

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Meshell Ndegeocello Preaches ‘The Gospel’

It was less a matter of “if” and more of “when.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s transfixing new album, No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin (Blue Note), seems an…





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Miguel Zenón

Música de Las Américas
(Miel)


Jon Irabagon
Rising Sun
(Irabagast)


Brian Charette
Jackpot
(Cellar Live)


Harish Raghavan
In Tense
(Whirlwind)


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Immanuel Wilkins

Blues Blood
(Blue Note)


Ed Neumeister Quartet + 3
Covers
(MeisteroMusic Records)


Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
Quiet In A World Full Of Noise
(Merge Records)


Louis Stewart & Jim Hall
The Dublin Concert
(Livia)


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Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler: The Truth Is Marching In

In a restaurant-bar in Greenwich Village, tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was ruminating on the disparity between renown and income. In his case, anyway. Covers of his albums are prominent in the windows of more and more jazz record stores; references to him are increasingly frequent in jazz magazines, here and abroad; a growing number of players are trying to sound like him.

“I’m a new star, according to a magazine in England,” Ayler said, “and I don’t even have fare to England. Record royalties? I never see any. Oh, maybe I’ll get $50…


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