James Farm
by James Farm
  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Apr 26, 2011
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 12, 2011
    80
    Impressive, entertaining - a new supergroup is born. [Aug. 2011, p. 101]
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  2. PopMatters
    Aug 9, 2011
    80
    While James Farm is not a flatly innovative recording, it is just the kind of thing that modern instrumental jazz needs these days.
  3. AllMusic
    May 3, 2011
    80
    James Farm offers real compositional depth and spirited, sophisticated improvisation, making for a deeply satisfying listen and a promising debut.
  5. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    May 3, 2011
    70
    It's good, but you want to hear them live.
  6. The New York Times
    May 3, 2011
    70
    James Farm [could have felt] like a chore, too cerebral and micromanaged to take flight. The album does occasionally skirt that fate but never succumbs to it. Beneath the veneer of sleek accomplishment, there's an undertow of risk.
  7. The Guardian
    May 3, 2011
    60
    It's very classy contemporary jazz, but it doesn't leave quite as lingering an effect as the lineup suggests it might.
  8. The Telegraph (UK)
    May 3, 2011
    40
    Even where the musical ideas are strong, they're sapped by the determinedly relaxed ambiance.

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