Nashville-based Phil Madeira comes across as a kind of mix between Leon Russell down home roots with Randy Newman observances of life on this album as he sings stories and plays Crescent City styled piano with a core team of…
Month: April 2018
The Lao Tizer Band: Songs from the Swinghouse
Keyboardist Lao Tizer fronts an 11 member band that is filled with swinging funk, not dissimilar to vintage Tower of Power and AWB. Along with Eric Mrienthal-Steve Nieves/sax, Chieli Minucci-Jeff Marshall/g, Ric Fierabracci-Cheikh N’Doye/b, Karen Briggs/vi, Tita Hutchison/foc, Munyungo Jackson/perc…
SWEET SOUNDS OF THE ALTO SAX
I remember going to a concert back in the 1970s, just when I was starting to get interested in jazz, and while in the men’s room, I overheard an “old” guy talking to a guy in his 30s. “Yeah, this…
RICHIE COLE: A CHRONIC CASE OF ALTO MADNESS
SINCE FIRST HITTING THE JAZZ SCENE IN THE 1970’S, RICHIE COLE HAS CONSISTENTLY BLOWN HIS HORN TO THE SOUNDS OF BEBOP. THROUGH VARIOUS FADS RANGING FROM FUSION, NEO-TRADITIONAL, DISCO, FUNK, AND POST BOP, MR. COLE HAS NEVER SWAYED EVEN A…
TED NASH: GENERATIONS OF JAZZ AND INSPIRATION
FEW ARTISTS HAVE AS STRONG A BIG BAND JAZZ PEDIGREE AS TED NASH. HIS TROMBONIST FATHER AND ALTO SAXIST UNCLE WERE BIG NAMES IN THE SWINGING SESSION DAYS OF HENRI MANCINI AND LES BROWN. DURING AN ERA WHEN MOST JAZZ…