Composer Rick Baitz brings three diverse pieces for interpretation on this release. A 22 minute “Chhonic Dances for String Quartet has Joyce Hamman/vi, Mary Rowell/vi, Beth Meyers/va and Ashley Bathgate/cel creating rich textures and panoramic harmonies that are almost organ…
Month: October 2018
HEAVY BACKBEATS…Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles: Love’s Middle Name, Max Moran: Neospectric
Whether in rock or jazz, the beat can get hit hard, as on these two recent releases. Singer and guitarist Sarah Borges times up with Binky/b, Eric ‘Roscoe’ Ambel/g-key, and Phil Cimoni-Ed Arnold/dr for ten originals that feature her rough…
The Tiki Collective: Muse
The twelve member Tiki Collective includes a wide variety of instruments including strings, reeds, sitar and a rotating collection of vocalists on lush and romantically exotic readings of jazz material and beyond. There’s lots of Ellington interpreted here, with Tyra…
Mandy Barnett: Strange Conversation
Vocalist Mandy Barnett delivers a rich and bluesy collection of moods on this recent album. Her voice has a dash of Patsy Cline pathos along with a sandied rural feel, working well on pieces like a murky “More Lovin’” with…
Vivian Lee: Let’s Talk About Love
Vivian Lee has a create and penetrating clarity to her voice, not unlike a vintage Eartha Kitt on this collection of (mostly) standards with a simpatico team of Brenden Lowe/p, Buca Necak/b and Jeff Minnewater/dr. She floats with guest alto…
John Scofield: Combo 66
Guitarist John Scofield certainly doesn’t have anything to prove at this point in his career, but he’s nevertheless at a creative zenith. Recently getting a Grammy for his Hudson album, he switches his team around and brings together Gerald Clayton/p-org,…
Jake Mason Trio: The Stranger in the Mirror
B3er Jake Mason delivers a rich and smoky trio album with Danny Fischer/dr and James Sherlock/g that hearkens back to vintage Blue Note sessions with Grant Green and Kenny Burrell. Mason delivers rich and bluesy clouds for Sherlocks linear strings…
The Braxton Brothers: Higher
Braxton Brothers Nelson/b-key and Wayne as-ts-ss-prog deliver upbeat and catchy originals with a R&B tuned team of Chris Camozzi/g, Errol Cooney/g, Andy Quinn/g, Ryan Parrino/g and Joelibeck Neisler-Lebron/voc. Nelson uses his electric bass to create some hip lines as on…
Kait Dunton’s TrioKait@Bogie’s 10.23.18
One of the cardinal rules of a musician or group is to have a personal sound. Keyboardist Kait Dunton, with her long time working team of bassist Cooper Appell and husband/drummer Jake Reed have been able to achieve that goal,…
THIS IS A HARD BOP TRUMPET 101…Wood Shaw: Tokyo ’81, Live In Bremen 1983
Want to know what’s missing in today’s jazz? Just pop in either of these two albums by trumpeter Woody Shaw. Where did we make a wrong turn? Arguably the last in the line of “classic” trumpeters (Ok, I’ll give you…