Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp Realism (2025)

These pieces demonstrate an overwhelming potency, emerging from their respectively huge contrasts, where minute pitches become assimilated into grinding, juddering walls of near-chaotic overload, where clean cycles of rhythm become overlaid and superimposed into dense strata of complex polyphony. ...Sharp’s (b. 1951) music can be radiant, ethereal, alluring and overwhelming. A magnificent disc.

A journey as perilous and majestic as any in recent jazz history, full of unanswered questions, ellipses, asides, detours, ecstatic shouts and Iyrical prayers. A pas de deux, with a risk-taking so bracing, you find yourself holding your breath at the wonder and beauty of its coherence and cogency and spiritual resonance.

Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York. His stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, HR, The B-52’s, John Zorn, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Donovan, Antony and the Johnsons, and Iggy Pop. Saft leads the New Zion Trio, The Jamie Saft Trio, and The Jamie Saft Quartet.

Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! (1979) {A&M Records 393 187-2}
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© 1979, 1990 A&M Records | 393 187-2
New Wave / Rock / Post Punk / Contemporary Pop

A brilliant, accomplished debut, Look Sharp! established Joe Jackson as part of that camp of angry, intelligent young new wavers (i.e., Elvis Costello, Graham Parker) who approached pop music with the sardonic attitude and tense, aggressive energy of punk. Not as indebted to pub rock as Parker and Costello, and much more lyrically straightforward than the latter, Jackson delivers a set of bristling, insanely catchy pop songs that seethe with energy and frustration.