Sometimes albums contain songs, other times sounds. Here’s a pair of the latter. Ed Bib has a core team of Sharron Fortnam/voc, Chris Williams/as, Pete Grogan/as-ts, Elliot Galvin/key-p, Liran Donin/b and Mark Holub/dr, occasionally supplemented by some strings, bass clarinet…
Category: It Doesn’t Go Anywhere
The Ed Palermo Big Band: A Lousy Day In Harlem
Satire and jazz usually don’t go together, but bandleader Ed Palermo has made it a specialty during his career, with albums with themes ranging that have featured the sounds and songs of Frank Zappa. This time, he makes fun of…
GEMS FROM BRAZIL..Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio ALves Featuring Maucha Adnet: Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim, Ricardo Peixoto: Scary Beautiful
Wonderful sounds from Brazil… Drummer Duduka Da Fonseca forms a core trio wit pianist Helio ALves and bassist Hans Glawishnig, with guest appearances by guitar great Romero Lubambo, saxist BillyDrews and golden voiced Maucha Adnet on this lilting collection. Warm…
TWO SIDES OF FLORIAN ROSS: Florian Ross Trio: Pigs & Fairies, Florian Ross Quintet: Swallows & Swans
German pianist and composer Florian Ross shows two sides of his musical persona on these recent releases. Ross plays fm synthesizer grand piano and electric keyboards in a trio setting with Dietmar Fuhr/b, Fabian Arends/dr and guest Paul Heller/ts on…
BASS DESIRES…Stu Hamm: The Diary of Patrick Zavier, James Rosacha: Avalon
The bass is in the lead on these two sessions. Stu Hamm goes solo on this lyrical and melodic collection of originals. He’s able to create his own pulse to work over on pieces such as a grooving “My Boss…
Deanne Matley: Because I Loved
Deanne Matley has a strong and confident voice, and uses it well on this collection of tunes the includes some covers and intriguing originals. She teams up with Paul Shrofel/key, Adrian Vedady/b, Jim Doxas/dr, Steve Raegele/g, Kiko/perc and a collection…
ASIAN BLENDS…David Lopato: Gendhing For A Spirit Rising, Billy Drewes: Under One Sun
Western jazz teams with sounds from afar… This ambitious 2 disc set features David Lopato in a pair of different settings. He himself plays piano along with a plethora of instrumetns such as vitual violin, sampled zither, marimba and various…
SWINGING REISSUES…Count Basie: The Atomic Mr. basie, Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: Together, Django Reinhardt: Nuages
Discovery Records has been reissuing a series of Legendary Jazz Albums which include wonderful picutes by French photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir. These latest three feature albums by artists that made their styles infused with that thing called “swing.” One of the…
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff-Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, The Bells
Here’s some orchestral music to freshen up the day. The 26 variations of a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff are superbly interpreted by pianist Vestards Simkus with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra directed by Andris Poga. The concise themes…
FROM BAKERSFIELD, WITH LOVE…Buck Owens and the Buckaroos: The Complete Capitol Singles 1957-1966, Don Rich and the Buckaroos: Guitar Pickin’ Man
Just as Duke Ellington is to jazz, Buck Owens was to country-western music; a man with a sound that is not only unique, but one that cuts to the marrow of what it right and true about music, and once…