YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE THIS ON FAITH, BUT BACK IN THE 80S AND 90S, MODERN JAZZ WAS ACTUALLY POPULAR! WITH A COLLECTION OF “YOUNG LIONS” SUCH AS WYNTON MARSALIS, CHICO FREEMAN, DAVID MURRAY, THE HARPER BROTHERS AND KENNY…
Month: July 2017
THIS IS A BLUES GUITAR 101: The Pee Wee Crayton Collection 1947-62
Next to T-Bone Walker, Pee Wee Crayton (1914-1985) was the most influential blues guitarists and singers mixing a suave toned tenor voice with downright nasty and aggressive guitar pickings that swung like few others. This two disc set contains a…
Sylvia Bennett: For You
Vocalist Sylvia Bennett walks the tightrope of pop and jazz a la Rosemary Clooney on this upbeat collection of tunes. She brings some funky soul in order to freshen up “The Look of Love” and with an introduction of strings,…
FRESH FROM LEO’S DEN…Marcus Vergett: The Marsyas Suite. Oberg/Mahall/Griener: Lacy Pool 2, Trio Now: Live at Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen, Blazing Flame Quintet: The Set List Shuffle
UK-based Leo Records continues to release exciting and free thinking material. Here are the four latest. The the story of the mythological satyr Marsyas is presented by bassist Marcus Vergette, Janna Bulmer/cel and Lucy Welsman/cel who play the roles of…
Putumayo Presents: Cuba! Cuba!, Putumayo Kids Presents: Cuban Playground
Cuban music for the young and old, but both albums are for all generations and for all times Not only to do you get some exciting new sounds from contemporary Cuban artists, but a nice little daiquiri recipe is thrown…
Pat Battstone and Antonella Chionna: The Voice of Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was a French poet, participating in the French Dada movement of surrealism. This album mixes the voice of Antonella to recite the poetry and the piano/”vision” of Pat Battstone to add mood, textures and drapery to the…
SOUNDS OF AMERICA…Big Joe Williams: Southside Blues, Doc Watson: Live From Chicago 1964, Freddy Fender: Lovin’ Tex-Mex Style
Sounds from this wonderful country cover a wide variety of ethnicities. The roots of America run deep; here are a few that touch on sounds that influence just about everything we hear up to this present moment. Mississippi blues icon…
Alan Broadbent: Developing Story
Pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent teams up with a jazz trio of Harvie S/b and Peter Erskine/dr as well as the London Metropolitan Orchestra to create an album that is as classy, elegant and sophisticatedly swinging as the artist…
MUSIC FROM XX CHROMOSOMES
Yes, there is a difference! While there is all this talk of changing one’s gender, no one has ever been able to re-arrange any chromosomes. Women, blessed with the double X, were initially associated with jazz in terms of vocalists.…