Rex Shepherd plays guitar and prepared guitar as he leads a quartet of David Pate/ss-ts-bcl, Gill Folwell/b-aharp and Jose Cochez/dr through twelve intuitive originals. The concise tunes are on the conversant side, with moods predominate over melody. Pate’s bass clarinet…
Month: April 2019
Bendik Giske: Surrender
If you ever wondered what Brian Eno’s Ambient Music would sound like from a tenor saxist, then Bendik Giske is the guy you wanna see, or at least hear. The Scandinavian records a wide variety of sounds, with the microphone…
Christian McBride Big Band@The Soraya 04.26.19
Grammy Award winning bassist Christian McBride has carved out a career best known for his own trio work as well as teaming up with the likes of Pat Metheny, Chick Corea and Sting. For the first time for Los Angeles…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****AS YOU LIKE IT…Deborah Shulman: The Shakespeare Project
Anyone up for The Great Stratford-Upon-Avon Songbook? You might be after giving a listen to this brilliant album by vocalist Deborah, as she takes lines from Shakespeare plays such as Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s…
JAZZ DEAD SEA SCROLLS…Wes Montgomery: Back On Indiana Avenue-The Carroll DeCamp Recordings
In the liner notes of the 44 page booklet, producer and musical sleuth Zev Feldman correctly calls this 2 disc cache of previously unreleased vintage Wes Montgomery recordings the “Dead Sea Scrolls of Jazz” and he’s pretty spot on. There…
Lyn Stanley: London Calling
Vocalist Lyn Stanley gives a tribute to one of the queens of the seductive siren albums, Julie London, who not only was a seductive chanteuse for the bachelor pad set, but an impressive actress on shows like Emergency. While London…
LATIN SOULS…Marco Pignataro: Almas Antiguas, Sergio Pereira: Nu Brasil
South American, North American or Caribbean…grab an instrument and swing! Marco Pignataro plays tenor and soprano sax on this lyrical album of mostly originals with Adam Cruz/dr, Alan Pasqua/p, Eddie Gomez/b and guest George Garzone/ts. The two sax combo works…
LEO SET FREE…Kontrabassduo Suder-Frey with Jurg Frey and Alfred Zimmerlin: Zeit, Tanja Feichtmair: Omnixus + Solo, I Am Three & Me: Mingus’ Songs of Love
Here are a trio of highly clever, adventurous and ambitious releases by UK based Leo Records. Both Peter K Frey and Daniel Studer play double bass and electronics along with clarinetist Jurg Frey and violincellist Alfred Zimmerlin for these 10…
Mimi Fox: This Bird Still Flies
It’s been a few years since guitarist Mimi Fox has released an album, so this one is a double treat. Her distinctive strong touch and attack of the steel strings works well on this clever selection of covers, and her…
Rich Pellegrin: Down
Pianist Rich Pellegrin creates a wide swath of post bop moods on this album with a core team of R. Scott Morning/tp, Neil Welch/ts, Evan Flory-Barnes/b, Chirs Icasiano/dr and a guest ensemble. The core team is able to peel off…