Month: May 2019

Ben Bierman: Some Takes on the Blues

Ben Bierman wears a wide variety of hats on this multi-colored album. He plays trumpet, keyboards, guitars and bass while also composing the material. He also brings in guests Aandy Reiss/g-g, Willie Martinez/dr-perc, Terry Silverlight/dr and Emanuel Bierman/caj for added…

Peter Kogan: The Green Album

Drummer Peter Kogan mixes and matches hard bop ensembles of various sizes on this comfort food collection of jazz standards and originals. In a vintage quintet format, Pete Whitman’s tenor swings and Phil Aaron’s piano glides to a Blue Notey…

Eric Legnini: Essentiels

Creative takes of jazz standards mix with originals from the pen of pianist/leader Eric Legnini, leading a core post bop team of Jean-Louis Rassinfosse/b, Stephane Galland/dr and guests Pierre Valana/ss, Fabrizio Cassol/as-ss and Michel Massot/tuba. In trio form, the team…

Daniel Szabo: Visionary

The melding of jazz and classical music as always been a tricky deal, usually ending up with jazzers “swinging the classics,” or string ensembles vainly attempting to sound like Count Basie but ending up imitating an orchestra from the Weimar…