Warm toned trumpeter Julian Wasserfuhr and thoughtful pianist Roman Wasserfuhr form a rich post bop team with Maria Schneider’s tenor titan Donny McCaslin, Tim Lefebvre/b and Nate Wood/dr for 9 post bop originals. The team is able to range from…
Month: May 2017
Mark Winkler: The Company I Keep
“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” Proverbs 13:20 Judging by this album, vocalist and composer Mark Winkler is a wise man. He surrounds himself with LA’s finest, and produces yet another…
Torben Waldorff: Holiday On Fire
Thick toned guitarist Torben Waldorff teams up with Ingrid Jensen/tp, Maggi Olin/p-key, Drew Gress/b and Johnathan Blake for seven originals of post modern sounds. Jensen’s buttery horn gasps with delight on”Thyst Intro” while Waldorff creates gentle ripples throughout the main…
The Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra: Welcome To Swingsville!
Lead by educator and saxist Curt Hanrahan, the Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra is a 20 piece team that keeps the tradition of hard hitting swing alive on this collection of seven songs recorded in concert. The leader brings his own boppy…
Doug MacDonald: Presents a Salute to the Jazz Composers
This is the second “Jazz Marathon” put together by mainstream guitarist Doug MacDonald, and this two disc set of concert materials is filled with hard bopping fun. The warm toned 6 stringer teams with a pair of bands including Lanny…
CANADA SWINGS…University Of Toronto 12tet: Trillium Falls, University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Ruby Suite
Canada doesn’t only have to brag about being the birthplace of Oscar Peterson. Here are a couple releases from the University of Toronto that will get your attention. U of T’s twelve-tet is a light on its feet group that bops with…
Rocco John: Peace and Love
Usually free form ensembles get highly cacophonic and self indulgent. Composer, saxist and pianist Rocco John Iacovone avoids all of the usual pitfalls on this concert recording of three songs ranging from 16 to 23 minutes. The rest of the…
Monika Ryan: Windmills
Vocalist Monika Ryan tackles the songbook of Alan Bergman on this wide ranging album with support from Keith Loftis/sax, Brad Goode/tp, Clark Gayton/tb, Nick Rolfe/key, David O’Rourke/g, Rene Hart/b and Alvester Garnett/dr. There is some Iberian guitar work as Ryan…
JU: Summa
The team of Adam Meszaros/g-perc, Erno Hock/b-perc an Andras Halmos/dr-perc claim to be a “Hungarian Power Trio” which was not found defined in Wikipedia. However, the team does do some head banging on the metallic “Mongrel Mangrove” and “My Heart…
JUST KEEP THEM COMIN’, AND NO ONE GETS HURT…Wynton Kelly Trio/Wes Montgomery: Smokin’ In Seattle
Resonance Records continues to dig up sunken treasures like the Count of Monte Cristo as this most recent release features a sizzling night in Seattle’s Penthouse club back in 1966. The music comes from a pair of 1/2 hour radio broadcasts…