The warmth of Israel and Brazil melded together to create a rich mixture of sounds as clarinetist Anat Cohen teamed up with the Trio Brasileiro for an evening of swinging music of Sao Paolo and Sabra. The team of Douglas…
Month: May 2017
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Bruno Canino & Enrico Piera: Americas
Here’s a rich collection of two minds, twenty fingers and 176 ivories mixing together for 8 songs and 49 minutes. Bruno Canino and Enrico Pieranunzi venture into the Great North and South American songbooks with 8 rich and ebullient piano…
LEO’S DEN…Ensemble 5: Live Featuring Elliott Levin, Frank Gratkowski & Simon Nabatov: Mirthful Myths, Stuart Popejoy: Pleond, Loz Speyer’s Inner Space: Life On The Edge
UK based Leo Records continues to push the status quo with four new and free wheeling releases. Ensemble 5 consists of Heinz Geisser/perc, Fridolin Blumer/b, Reto Staub/p, Robert Morgenthaler/tb and the addition of Elliott who adds poetry to his flute…
The Reunion Project: Varanda
Brazilian jazz masters Felipe Salles/ww, Chico Pinheiro/g, Tiago Costa/p, Bruno Migotto/b and Edu Ribeiro/dr get together for a swinging South American session. Just about everyone contributes a tune, with the shadowy “Yesterdays” being the sole exception. The songs are full…
Myles Wright: The Manhattan EP
Myles Wright wrote the music for the four tunes on this ep for the extra large 24 piece big band. Amazingly the team is pretty light on its feet, sounding relaxed as they create rich textures for Luke O’Reilly’s piano…
Virginia Schenck: Aminata Moseka-An Abbey Lincoln Tribute
It’s an intimidating task to try to capture the various styles and moods as someone as wide ranging as Abbey Lincoln, but Virginia Schenck does an impressive job on this album. With a rhythm team of Kevin Bales/p, Rodney Jordan/b…
Hiromi Suda: Nagi
While a native of Japan, vocalist Hiromi Suda is able to still create a p enchant for Brazilian sounds, forming a unique melding of genres on this sensuously samba mix. She brings together the great Romero Lubambo on guitar, teaming…
Billy Mintz: Ugly Beautiful
The music on this 2 disc recording is claimed to have been recorded in a single day in one studio room without headphones, making this mix of sounds all the more impressive. Drummer Billy Mintz wrote the material for the…
SWING WITH STRINGS Jason Anick and Jason Yeager: United
Pianist Jason Yeager forms a front line with violin and mandolin player Jason Anick along with a rotating support team of Greg Loughman-John Lockwood/b, Mike Connors/dr, Jerry Leake/perec and various cameos on this buoyant session. As a duo, the gents…
CROONER: Gianni Bianchini: Type 1
Pianist and vocalist Gianni Bianchini titles the album for his first release and childhood disease with a collection of upbeat and charming read of standards. He’s got a warm tenor voice, hinting at Barry Manilow, tender on “ I Could…