Nicole Glover

Nicole Glover – Plays (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:42:35 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Jazz, Be Bop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Nicole Glover – Plays (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:35 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Savant

Nicole Glover has been getting some well-deserved exposure recently in the context of groups like the Artemis sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But this tenor saxophonist is best appreciated on her own albums, where she fronts a saxophone-bass-drums trio. While not a common jazz format, this instrumentation has sired some classic recordings, beginning with a 1945 Commodore record by Don Byas and Slam Stewart (whose foot-tapping qualifies as “drumming”), through classics by Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson and Ornette Coleman, to contemporary trios led by Branford Marsalis and Glover’s label mate, JD Allen.

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Nicole Glover – Strange Lands (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:55 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Savant

Time was when a jazz trio without a piano or guitar was a rare occurrence. But once Sonny Rollins went chordless at the Vanguard the die was cast and, though the instrumentation is still not exactly thick on the ground, it is an important subset in the list of saxophone-fronted jazz groups. For the last three years tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover has embraced this format with her regular band featuring colleagues Daniel Duke (bass) and Nic Cacioppo (drums). Here, for her first album with the group and her Savant Records debut, she has attracted the attention of keyboard great George Cables, who appears on four tracks of the recording. Michael J, West points out in the album’s liner notes that to Glover, “Cables represents the continuum of the music, it’s past, present and future; she wanted that wisdom and energy to manifest itself and inform the band’s work.” In the trio numbers, mostly originals, the musicians display a unity of thought that goes far beyond the notes, one that takes the freedom of a chordless ensemble and runs with it. Their music is full of strength and power, challenging but communicative with a sly sense of playfulness peeking out occasionally all providing a memorable musical experience that is at once high-spirited and deeply felt.

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