Here’s a hip band that fuses together parts of jazz and soul to create a highly attractive album. The band consists of Joe Holiday/b-voc-duduk, Cherie Chooljian/key, Miles Tune/perc, Alex Garcia-Adam Mick/woodwinds, Adam Mick/sax and J. Holiday/voc, and they do some…
Month: February 2015
Blood Sweat Drum + Bass: In The Spirit Of…
If you’re a fan of modern big band music, you’re going to have a friend in the Danish team of Blood Sweat Drum + Bass, which is a 15-30 rotating orchestra that on this cd/dvd shows the width and breath…
Colette Michaan: Incarnate Encarna
Flutist Colette Michaan puts together a scintillating collection of sounds Afro Cuban with a flexible and rotating team of Pablo Vergara/p-ke, Reut ReGeV/tb, Mireya Ramos/vio, Gregoire Maret/harm, Jorge Bringas/b, Roman Diaz/perc, Luisito Quintero/perc, Yusnier Sanchez Bustamante/perc and Harvey Wirht/dr. As…
ART OF TRIO…Michel Bisceglia: Singularity
Pianist Michel Bisceglia records with a trio on a label named Prova Records. If you don’t know Italian, the word “prova” means “try.” Good advertising-give this trio a try; you’re not going to be disappointed. Bisceglia joins together with Werner…
Arrival: Chegada 3, Arrival Live
Here’s a band I’ve never heard before, but I gotta tell you, they deliver a style of music rarely done these days. It used to be called “contemporary adult instrumental” which meant “jazz that cooks but doesn’t go out into…
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Where The Light Falls
The romantic and lyrical Circle 3 Trio of David Friesen/b, Greg Goebel/p and Charlie Doggett puts together a 2 disc set of studio and concert material, which also includes a healthy dose of LA’s best, guitarist Larry Koonse. The team…
Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Episodes IV-VI
Pianist Rich Pellegrin leads a flexible band of R. Scott Morning/tp, Neil Welch/ts, Evan Flory-Barnes/b and Chris Icasiano/dr through the second volume of a “Three Part Odyssey” trilogy. Two of the tree “Episodes” have two parts, which means they have…
Joanne Tatham: Out of My Dreams
You know a record is going to be filled with hep swing if Mark Winkler is producing it, and voila! here’s an album by husky toned Joanne Tatham that is a real finger snapping winner. She and Winkler brought together…
MARVY! The One-Derful! Collection: Mar-V-Lus
Last year, the surprise release was a HOT cd that collected tunes from the obscure soul label One-Derful Records. Now, you’ve got the second installment which is the “teen oriented” R&B sounds from the Mar-V-Lus label. What was this label?…
Shawn Maxwell’s Alliance: Bridge
Shawn Maxwell leads and intriguing and flexile group here for an ep of 5 clever originals. He’s put together a team of himself on also sax and flute, and then melds it with Casey Fitzpatrick/ss, Rachel Maxwell/fh, Meghan Fulton/fh for…