Guitarist Jason Keiser leads a two guitar team alongside John Stowell with the horns of Erik Jekabson/tp-fh and Aaron Lington/bs and a rhythm section of Dan Robbins/b and Jason Lewis/dr for an album focusing on material written by the late…
Month: April 2023
Steve Gadd@Catalina’s 04.22.23
It’s fitting that the final drummer/bandleader that came into town this past month would be Steve Gadd, as at 78, the elder statesman delivered a 90 minute set that set that showed that he is still the standard bearer of…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina
One of the most welcome events the past year has been Blue Note legendary drummer Joe Chambers returning to his 1960s home label, and he’s back with a vengeance. This time around, he’s with Andres Vial-Richard Germanson/p, Ira Coleman-Mark Leweandowski/b,…
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES OF JAZZ GOES CRAB CAKES…Sonny Stitt: Boppin’ In Baltimore, Walter Bishop Jr. Bish At The Bank, Shirley Scott: Queen Talk
Known for searching out and discovering hidden jazz treasures, Jazz Detective Zev Feldman has teamed up with co-producer Cory Weeds in putting together a trio of previously unknown gems of recorded music from the 1960s and 70s. The collection here…
Reiner Witzel/Richie Beirach Quintet: The World Within
Saxist Reiner Witzel teams with pianist/rhodes-ist Richie Beirach to lead a left of center quintet with Alex Sipiagin/tp, Joscha Oetz/b and Tobias Frohnhofer/dr for some assertive and free form ideas. On piano, Beirach is full fisted as he broods on…
Sam Gendel: Cookup
Multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel is an LA based artist who teams up here with Gabe Noel, who plays bass, vibes, and various guitars , and Phillipe Melanson on drums and percussion. He source of material is a catalogue of material from…
Ari Silberman: Beneath the Canopy
For his debut album, saxist Ari Silberman teams up with LA artists Josh Nelson/p, Christian Euman/dr, Jake Leckie/b and Erin Bentlage/voc on a lively and easy swinging session. Brian Walsh plays bass clarinet with Leckie’s snappy bass on “Augmented Blues”…
Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog: The Great Miracle
I’m so old, I remember when jazz sounded like jazz, and not like 70s rock. Guitarist Joel Harrison is labeled as a jazz guitarist, and he well may be, but as one who grew up in the 60s and 70s,…
Janiece Jaffe & Monika Herzig: Both Sides of Joni
Today’s musical question has to be “100 years from now, what composer from the 20th Century will singers use for their songbooks?” Judging by today’s releases, it seems to be a neck and neck race between the Beatles and Joni…
David Ake: Green Thumb
Pianist David Ake leads a quartet of Boris Kozlov/b, Rudy Oryston/dr and Tony Malaby/ts through a mix of originals and a couple standards. The team broods over a solemn “But Beautiful” with Malaby getting a bit elliptical on ”All The…