Leader Ryan Keberle plays trombone along with a wide collection of keyboards, teaming with guitarist/vocalist Camila Meza, tenor saxist Scott Robinson, bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Eric Doob on this wide ranging collection divided into two moods. The first section,…
Month: July 2019
Eric Hofbauer’s Five Agents: Book Of Water
Guitarist and composer Eric Hofbauer brings together a 3 horn front line of Jerry Sabatini/tp, Seth Meicht/ts and Jeb Bishop/tb in a loosely swinging session held down by Nate McBride/b and Curt Newton/dr. The songs are divided into chapters, with…
Grace Kelly: Go Time-Live In LA
Alto saxist and singer Grace Kelly continues to re-invent herself, demonstrated on this concert recording. Long gone are the days when she was associated with bop master Lee Konitz; these days she’s including tap dancing and funk synth works into…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK***THE BEST VOICE THAT TIME FORGOT…Frank D’Rone: Sings/After The Ball
Spain-based Fresh Sound Records has been looking under rocks and fallen trees for lost or forgotten vocal sessions by lost or forgotten vocalists. A while back we went through a bunch of female vocalists, now we’re rolling out the red…
VINTAGE PULSES: Phil Madeira: Crickets, Bennett Paster: Indivisible
Ah, the simple joys of accessible jazz! Pianist Phil Madeira is in a vintage bop mood with a collection of soulful originals on this album with a team of Aaron Smith/dr, James Hollihan/g, Roland Barber/tp-tb, Chris Donohue/b and Rahsaan Barber/sax.…
Lafayette Gilchrist: Dark Matter
Pianist Lafayette Gilchrist gives a rich solo 2016 performance at Baltimore’s Wright Theatre.He has a rich and strong touch, but is a clever at using space as well as melding styles together on this collection of originals. Never far away…
DEPRESSION BLUES…Charley Jordan: The Charley Jordan Collection 1930-37
One of the more obscure blues artists, Charley Jordan (1890-1954), is finally getting a definitive anthology put together on this two disc, 47 song collection. Jordan was a well-known figure in the St. Louis scene, both as a blues singer…
FREE YET ACCESSIBLE…Miller Wrenn: Escapist Alternatives, Mark Dresser Seven: Ain’t Nothing But A Cyber Coup & You
Free jazz is not always an excuse for cacophony. Here are a pair of attractive releases. Bassist and composer Miller Wrenn shows that free form jazz can still be melodic, accessible and enjoyable on this empathetic album with liked minded…
Gregory Harrington: Without You
Violinist Gregory Harrington is a throwback to the rich lyrical strings sounds that evoke the melodic swing of Stephane Grappelli on alluring session. He teams up with on a mix and match basis Simon Mulligan/p, Matt Scarano/dr, Leon Boykins/b and…
New Bojaira: Zorongo Blu
A combination of earthy folk voices and sizzling modern Latin sounds make for rich listening on this album by Jesus Hernandez/p, Tim Ferguson/b, Mark Holen/dr, Alfonse Cid/voc-fl, Peter Brainin/ts-ss and guests Randy Brecke/fh with Sergio Gomez/voc. Brecker locks rich horns…