Douglas Detrick reviews Marvelous Fantasy, the solo album by pianist Harold O'Neal, featuring music inspired both by jazz and by composers such as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.

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Jonathan Lindhorst reviews If the Past Seems So Bright by Jeremy Udden. The album is the second by Udden that features Plainville, his band featuring keyboardist Pete Rende, guitarist and banjoist Brandon Seabrook, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer R.J. Miller.

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Douglas Detrick reviews Tim Berne's Snakeoil, an album featuring clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell, and drummer Ches Smith.

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Jonathan Lindhorst reviewed bassist, composer, and turntablist Zack Lober's Ancestry Project, performed at the IBeam performance space in Brooklyn on January 27th. The music drew from a range of styles, and was written as accompaniment to a pre-recorded interview with Lober's grandfather, who was a Canadian bandleader in the 1950s. The band included pianist John Escreet, saxophonists Dave Binney and Chet Doxas, and drummer Dan Weiss.

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