CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Recent Listening: Jason Moran

Jason Moran, Ten (Blue Note) It is possible that Jason Moran is the messianic paragon that the tide of jump-on-the-Bandwagon critical enthusiasm proclaims him. I am willing to cede that judgment to the leavening passage of time. It is no abandonment of restraint, however, to agree that Moran is an original thinker and a hell of a pianist. If there were no other reason to make that concession, I would be convinced by his treatment of the late Jaki Byard's "To Bob Vatel of Paris." Byard recorded...

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