Light baritone vocalist Patrick Barnitt sings with a dash of Sinatra on this swinging session that has him with small and big band settings. Barnitt is anchored by Stephan Oberhoff, who plays piano, guitar, keyboards and arranges the strings on…
Month: September 2019
Shawn Purcell: Symmetricity
Guitarist Shawn Purcell sounds like he’s imbibed deeply from the waters of John Scofield on this classy session. His sandied tone teams with a mix and match team, cored with bassist Regan Brough, pianist Todd Simon and drummer Stockton Helbing…
Ray Noble And His Orchestra: Hits Collection featuring Al Bowlly 1931-47
Most people these days don’t realize that during The Depression, jazz orchestras were divided into “Sweet” and “Hot” bands. The latter were lead by the likes of Benny Goodman, Chick Webb and Count Basie, while the former featured Guy Lombardo,…
Michael Vlatkovich 5 Winds: Five Of Us
Trombonist Michael Vlatkovich leads a horn quintet with David Mott/bs, Lina Allemano/tp, Nicole Rampersaud/tp and Peter Lutek/ts, with a nine part suite being the centerpiece. The horns form a rich texture, with a lovely tenor sax aria by Lutek on…
NEW VOICES…Gretje Angell: In Any Key, Maggie Herron: Renditions, Jenna McLean: Brighter Day
Three ladies with stories… Sandied voiced-Gretje Angell creates light pastel moods in this breezy album with a mix and match team including Dori Amarilio/g, Gave Davis/b, Kevin Winard/perc, Steve Hass/dr, Kevin Axt/b and others. Her intonation is clear, delicate on…
NEW AND OLD BUSINESS FROM NO BUSINESS…Maksimowicz-Golovanov: Thousand Seconds of Our Life, Albert Beger Quartet: The Gate, Whit Dickey/Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream, Sam Rivers Archive Project: Volume 1 Emanation, Kang Tae Hwan & Midori Takada: An Eternal Moment, Murray/Dickie/Andreano: Homework, Detail: Day Two
Whether it’s a brand new album or one from the Nixon Administration, No Business Records has been in the business of presenting free and avant garde material. Here, we have some recently recorded albums and a handful of reissued material…
THE FIRST AND BEST JAM BAND? The Allman Brothers Band: Fillmore West ‘71
Were they a blues band? Rock band? Jazz band? Whatever the label, the original Allman Brothers Band of Duane Allman on slide and electric guitars, B3er and vocalist brother Gregg, lead guitarist Dickie Betts, bassist Berry Oakley and the two…
Roxy Coss: Quintet
Last year’s release by saxist Roxy Coss had her addressing Women’s Social Issues. They’re still addressed here, as well as other political statements, but they don’t detract or add to the high quality of music that stands up even if…
IF YOU LIKE JOHNNY MATHIS…Adam Wade: The Adam Wade Collection 1959-62
Between Elvis of the 1950s and The Beatles and Motown of 1960s, white audiences has singers like Fabian, Bobby Vee and Bobby Vinton while black music fans chose between older cats like Billy Eckstine or younger crooners such as Johnny…
Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano: Roma (Live In Rome 2019)
A meeting of Italians Enrico Rava/fh and Giovanni Guidi/p join with famed American Sicilian Joe Lovano on tenor sax and tarogato along with Americans Dezron Douglas/b and Gerald Cleaver/dr for a November night of music in The Eternal City. Rava…