Month: November 2020

OKAN: Espiral

Rich voices by Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne both meld for rich harmonies or come out in front for luscious soloing both in voice and instrument take place on this festive album of traditional folk and modern jazz. Rodriguez also…

Doug Webb: Apples & Oranges

Full bodied tenor saxist Doug Webb digs deep as he forms a classic sounding trio with B3er Brian Charette and drummer Andy Sanesi through a combo of originals and a couple standards. Charette veers delivers  advanced Larry Young-inspired post bop…

Cory Wong: Trail Songs-Dusk

Guitarist and vocalist Cory Wong creates pastoral moods with support of strings, woodwinds and soft rhythms on this followup to his previous Dawn album.  The mix of guitar and the Quartet of Laurie Petruconis/vi, Allison Ostrander/vi, Susan Janda/fa and Re…

Dafnis  Prieto: Transparency

Drummer Dafnis Prieto takes a step back from his last big band session to put together a top notch post bop sextet of Roman Filiu/as-ss, Alex Norris/tp, Peter Apfelbaum/ts-perc, Alex Brown/p and Johannes Weidenmueller/b for mix of modern tones with…