Here are a couple of Latin-tinged albums that missed catching our radar the first time around… Al DeLory plays piano and keyboards with his big band team that mixes originals with compositions by traditional material arranged by Hilario Duran. The…
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…
GET YOUR GUITAR REUTERED…Markus Reuter: Oculus, Sun Trance, Reuter-Motzer-Grohowski: Shape Shifters
Guitarist Markus Reuter shows various directions for the use of his touch guitar. Hang on tight! On Oculus, Reuter also plays “soundscapes” and keyboards along with King Crimson alumnus David Cross/key-vi, Mark Wingfield/eg, Robert Rich/textures, Asaf Sirkis/dr and Fabio Trentini/b.…
EVER ENOUGH? Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scotts
“The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing” Ecclesiastes 1:8 There’s definitely not a dearth of recordings by Bill Evans, but the question has to be, after Resonance Records has released its fifth…
THE LAST OF THE POPULAR JAZZ VIRTUOSOS…Oscar Peterson : The Early Years 1945-50
It’s hard to believe these days, but once upon a time a musical artist could achieve worldwide fame simply for his musical prowess. There was no “image” or light shows, weird dressing or attitude, just simply being the master of…
THE KING’S LAST GREAT SESSION…Elvis Presley: From Elvis In Nashville
Yes, he still recorded a ton of concerts, but for all intents and purposes, this 4 disc set has Elvis The King at his last “great” studio session. It’s the 50s anniversary of this session that resulted in his classic…
THE BEST OF NEW BRAZILIANA…Diego Figueiredo: Compilation
If you’re a fan of Brazilian guitar, you need to learn of Diego Figueiredo. He’s still under the radar, but his catalogue of material is bubbling over with its impressiveness. He’s done some gorgeous duets with vocalist Cyrille Aimee’, clarinetist…
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…