Here are a few ways the guitar fits into jazz sensibilities… Jorge Rossy actually plays vibes and marimba here, but he employs mainstreamer Peter Bernstein, and along with Mark Turner/ts Doug Weiss/b and Al Foster/dr, creates some rich moods on…
Month: December 2016
SOUL MEN…The Temprees: From The Heart, “The Doctor” Curtis Robinson: Dancing In the Street
Two ways to approach and embrace pop R&B; embrace the past with your own material or interpret it with a new attitude. Here we go! The Temprees consist of Deljuan Calvin, Harold Scott and Walter Washington, and they make you…
Terry Manning: 3@Sea-Planets
Back in the 1970s, there was a fad of adapting electronic sounds to classical music. “Switched On Bach” and albums by Tomita were the rage, and they gave a fresh feel to music from years gone by. Terry Manning returns…
Walter Kemp 3oh! : Dark Continent
Walter Kemp plays piano and organ as he keeps it hip with Rishon Odel Northington/b and David Hulett/dr on home grown compositions. The drums snap and the bass gets funky as Kemps’ piano blueses on “Ah-Freak-Ya” while the team dramatically…
Jacam Manricks: Chamber Jazz
Alto saxist Jacam Manricks teams up with Kevin Hays/p, Ari Hoenig/dr and Gianluca Renzi/b for an exciting album of post bop originals. He’s got a rich and warm tone on the alto, and can make it work on muscular and…
JUST KEEP ‘EM COMING; ELLINGTON IN THE LP ERA…Duke Ellington: The Duke Box 2
There is truly no better way to appreciate 20th Century music than taking in the sounds of Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. Storyville Records has done a commendable job through the years of releasing vintage material via radio broadcasts, private recordings and…
Thierry Maillard Trio: Ethnic Sounds
Pianist Thierry Maillard augments his trio of Dominique Dipiazza/b and Yoann Schmidt/dr with extra textures supplied by The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jan Kucera. The ten pieces are filled with a myriad of rich moods. Strings and percussion that…
Wallace Roney: A Place In Time
Trumpeter Wallace Roney continues to create a strong catalogue for himself, with an impressive post-bop album of originals and covers. He knows how to create a hip team, using Gary Bartz/as, Ben Solomon/ts-ss, Patrice Rushen/p, Buster Williams/b and Lenny White…
SHADES OF STAN GETZ…Brew Moore: Live In Europe 1961, Hans Koller & Friends: Big Sound
Once upon a time, tenor saxes sounded like…well, tenor saxes! Rich, thick and breathy and under the influence of Lester Young and eventually Stan Getz, they eventually ran into the onslaught of John Coltrane’s “sheets of sound” and got trampled…
LOTS OF MUSIC!!! Tony Moreno Quintet: Short Stories, Dwiki Dharmanwan: Pasar Klewar, HGH Trio: Q Sessions
Each artist fills two discs up with music. That’s having something to say! More bang for your musical buck, to say the least… Drummer Tony Moreno leads the most straight-ahead of the three releases, teaming up with the post…