Drummer Rogerio Boccato leads a subtly swinging team of Dan Blake/ts-ss, Nando Michelin/Rhodes and Jay Anderson/b through a collection of gracious Brazilian tunes from the likes of Milton Nascimento and Toninho Horta.” Blakes’s tenor is warm and dreamy on the…
Month: July 2018
DUETS…Pearlman/Sherry: Friendly Spaces, Jimmy Bennington/Steve Cohn: Albany Park
Nothing in music is as communicative as duets. Here is a recent pair of outings. Pianist Neil Pearlman teams with saxist Dylan Sherry to create a mix of jazz and traditional sounds from various countries. Some Scottish pieces like “Laclan…
Misha Piatigorsky Trio: Stained Glass & Technicolor Grooves
Pianist Misha Piatigorsky keeps the hard bop flame alive with his trio Charile Dougherty/b and Sam Fishman/dr at a concert recorded at the Glen Rock Jewish Center from January, 2017. With Fishman’s brushes, the trio is sleek on “Moten Swing”…
The John Colianni Sextet: I Never Knew
Pianist John Colianni leads a swinging team of Matt Chertkoff/g, John David Simon/ts, Grant Stewart/ts, Ralph Hamperian/b and Bernard Linette/dr through a mix of originals and standards. The two tenor team works amazingly well, as the sound like the Count…
CREATIVE COMPOSERS…Baljinder Sekhon: Places & Times, David Kechley: The Walbrzych Project
Composers in the driver’s seat… If percussion is your thing, you’re in for a treat with this album of kinetic compositions by Baljinder Sekhon. He mixes sounds from the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet (Matt Cook, Justin DeHart, Cory Hills, Nick…
Noam Wiesenberg: Roads Diverge
Bassist Noam Wiesenberg leads a vintage sounding quintet along with Philip Dizack/tp, Shai Maestro/p-key, Immanuel Wildins/as-cl and Kush Abadey/dr. With Maestro’s keyboards, the team delivers soulful CTI sounds with Dizack’s horn on the hip-pulsed “Where Do We Go From Here”…
Phil Haynes & Free Country: My Favorite Things (1960-1969)
A soundtrack for Baby Boomers is created on this two disc set by Hank Roberst/cel-voc, Jim Yande/g, Drew Gress/b and Phil Haynes/dr-arr. Songs by Jimi Hendrix (“Little Wing,” “Fire,” “Purple Haze”) ‘The Beatles (“Let it Be,” “Here Comes the Sun”…
LEO IN THE SUMMER…Lucas Leidinger & Daniel Daemon: Dialogues, Stefano Leonardi/Marco Colonna/Antonio Bertoni/Fridolin Blumer/Heinz Geisser: L’Eterno, Mark Harvey & The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Democratic Vistas, Stephen Rush/Andrew Bishop/ Jeremy Edwards w/ Tim Flood & Davy Lazar: Naked Dance! Something Nearby
Four new releases by the always creative Leo Records… Alto saxist Daniel Daemen teams with piano player Lucas Leidinger for eleven compositions by the latter during a 2017 recording at a church in Cologne. Daeman’s tone is warm, sighing to…
BEBOPPING SASSY…Sarah Vaughan: The Early Years: 1944-48
It’s a coin flip as to whether Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald can lay claim to being the “first” female vocalist to embrace the challenges of bebop. No one will argue that Sassy had the larger range, as her voice…
TENOR SAXES, SOUL AND VO-COOL FROM AVID: David “Fathead” Newman: Four Classic Albums, Lester Young: Four Classic Albums, Jazz Organists: Four Classic Albums, Sam Cooke: Four Classic Albums, June Christy: Four Classic Albums
Some of the most sublimely soulful sounds ever to bless your ears are presented by this latest cache of 2 cd sets by Avid. Consider yourself blessed with the chance to hear it. While David “Fathead” Newman was best known…