Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci displays style and swing on this richly swinging collection of tunes. He brings together a wide swath of artists including Larry Goldings/key, Christian McBride/b, Dean Parks/g, Jamey Haddad/perc and Steve Gadd/dr along with other guests for material…
Month: August 2016
New Standard Jazz Orchestra: Waltz About Nothing
Directed by Andy Baker and Ken Partyka, the New Standard Jazz Orchestra features originals and a couple covers with rich arrangements provided by the 17 piece band. The brass section has lots of fun and opportunities for delivering rich colors…
Terceto: Kali
Want some Latin passion in your guitar strumming? You’ll get it here with Jason McGuire/g, Paul Martin Sounder/b and Marlon Aldana/dr who put the “fuse” in fusion on this sizzling jazz-flamenco collaboration. Both strings and drums are percussive, creating thrilling…
FLYING UP FROM RIO…Carla Hassett: +Blue
Are you a sucker for anything Brazilian? How can you not believe in a loving God when the best of German and Latin genes were put together to create this masterful race? But, I digress.. Singer/songwriter Carla Hassett, born in…
Keith Brown: The Journey
Keith Brown releases a strong album that displays his taste in keyboard concepts in a variety of settings. He mixes and matches between trio and groups with horns, as Kenneth Whallum III, Jamel Mitchell, Greg Tardy add saxes and Mike…
Eric Wollman Trio: Persons of Interest
Guitarist Eric Wollman creates some intriguing sounds with his guitar on this trio album with bassist Jim Donica and drummer Peter Grant. Like compatriot Bill Frisell, Wollman appears to be focusing on the texture of tone here and not on chops…
WORLDS COLLIDE…Sergio Krakowski: Passaros, The Baboons: Spanglish, AHEO: Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Sounds and thoughts from all over the planet, vying for North American ears… Popular in Brazil, the pandeiro is a hand drum that looks like a tambourine, but has a much richer texture and flexability. Sergio Krakowski uses it in…
Michelle Willis: See Us Through
Here’s a clever and slightly quirky delivery from singer/songwriter Michelle Willis. While playing piano, Wurlitzer and pump organ, she teams with Charles James/b and Thom Gill/eg while mixing and matching with various other strings and percussion. What makes this album…
Scott Morgan: Songs Of Life
It’s hard to find a male jazz singer who isn’t a poser or hipster. Scott Morgan has a good chance of becoming what vocal jazz fans are looking for; a guy that loves a lyric and melody. He teams up…
WAYNE’S WORLD…Denny Zeitlin: Solo Piano-Early Wayne
Pianist Denny Zeitlin is the perfect choice to interpret material by who he calls “jazz’s greatest living composer,” Wayne Shorter. They both are gifted at creating material that can be swinging, clever, tangential, free and explorative. Zeitlin’s advantage is that…