Month: October 2016

Luke Hendon: Silk & Steel

Guitarist Luke Hendon delivers a winning and swinging album that mixes gypsy jazz with deft ensemble work The team includes rhythm guitarists Josh Kaye, Ted Gottsegen and Hendi Looze, and along with violinist Pooquette, reedist Adrian Cunningham and bassist Ben…

A MONTH FOR GIVING THANKS

Isn’t it amazing that almost every holiday has a song except Thanksgiving? What’s THAT all about?!? There’s even songs for The Great Pumpkin, thanks to Charlie Brown. Why do we give Thanksgiving such short shrift? Thankfulness is one of the…

VROOM! Music Soup: Cut To The Chase

An organ trio of Greeks deliver a full plate of comfort food for consumption. The three chefs, Evgenia Karlafti/B3-key-voc, Nestor Dimopoulos/g and Vagelis Ktozabasis/dr deliver sounds as thick as tsadziki sauce and sweet as galactoburiko on toe tapping pieces like…

JOHN MAYALL: BLUE HORIZONS

IT’S THE RARE ARTIST THAT HAS TWO “BRAND NEW” RELEASES THAT ARE ALMOST 50 YEARS APART. FOUR SCORE +1 YEAR BLUES LEGEND JOHN MAYALL CONTINUES TO DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH WITH ONE OF HIS LONGEST LASTING QUARTETS IN…

Jimmy O’Connell Sixtet: Arrhythmia

Trombonist and leader Jimmy O’Connell brings together a muscular hard bop team of Andrew Gold/as-ss, Tim Basom/g, Tuomo Uusitalo/p, Peter Slavov/b and  Jimmy MacBride/dr through an impressive mix of jazz standards and originals. O’Connell’s tone is bold, strong and confident,…