Thick toned saxist Rob Dixon teams up with legendary drummer Mike Clark, 7-stringed guitarist and producer Charlie Hunter and trombonist Ernest Stuart for a spacious and starkly swinging album. Sans bassist, the band is still able to lay out a…
Month: October 2018
Walter Salas-Humara: Walterio
Walter Salas-Humara sings and plays rockfish guitar with a rootsy team that includes Billy Donohue-Jonathan Rundman/org, Rod Hoh-Angel Cuber-Konrad Meissner/dr and Joe Reyes-Ric Kassel/g for an album of original compositions. He sings in both English and Spanish, with the bluesy…
Bunny Brunel@Bogie’s Bar 10.09.18
Legendary electric bassist Bunny Brunel put the “fuse” back into fusion with an electrifying 110 minute set at the acoustically adroit Bogie’s Bar. Mixing material from his days with Chick Corea as well as his own CAB band, Brunel and…
Tony Adamo: Was Out Jazz Zone Mad
One of the great things about Tony Adamo is that you just can’t peg him down. He’s part vocalist, poet, street preacher, hip uncle, but above all, a jazzer with a grooving heart. On this album he lays down the…
The Jay Danley Band: Etho Jazz Volume One
They say that coffee, the Garden of Eden, the Ark of the Covenant and even the Queen of Sheba all had their homes in Ethiopia. Guitarist and composer Jay Danley makes a good argument that jazz could list its origins…
VOCAL ART GALLERY…Cecile McLorin Salvant: The Window
More than a singer, Cecile McLorin Salvant is an impressionist painter a la Monet but with a voice rather than a brush. This latest album has her in the studio and at the Village Vanguard with pianist Sullivan Fortner, and…
TROMBONES ARE SLIDING…Neils Maxa: Voila’, Peter Lin: With Respect, Paul Rutherford: Are We In Diego
With piano, tenor sax and trumpet usually getting the headlines, it’s nice to see the rare chance to hear a trombonist take the lead in a group. Here are some recent releases. Neil Maxa boasts of a big and bold…
Morten Haxholm Quartet: Vestigium
Bassist Morten Haxholm’s team of Jonathan Kreisberg/g, Ari Hoenig/dr, Nikolaj Hess/p and Frederick Menzies/ts are recorded during a two day stint at The Village in Copenhagen back in January, 2017. The band swings subtle post bop, impressing you with cool…
AMERICA’S GREATEST COMPOSER? Ella, Frank, Billie, Nat, etc: The Classic Songs of George Gershwin
Continuing its Great American Songbook series, Acrobat Records releases a two cd set that focuses on the music on arguable the greatest American composer, George Gershwin. Choosing a “definitive” or “representative” version of Gershwin material is daunting at the very…
Terry Blersh: Play It All Day
Bluesy singer/songwriter and guitarist Terry Blersh serves up some meat and potatoes on these eleven tunes that are concise and cooking. He has a core team of Al Cross/dr, Lance Anderson-Denis Keldie/key-p and a rotating bass chair along with various…