Hungary-based label BMC (short for Budapest Music Center) Records specializes in left of center ideas and approaches. We’ll feature a handful of releases every now and then. If nothing else, these guys are trying to find new sounds and approaches.…
Month: January 2022
Max Agnas: The More I Let The World In
Swedish pianist Max Agnas mixes reflective solo work with some modern musings with guests Salvador Sobral/voc and Nils Agnas/el-dr. On his own, he creates dark spaces on “Like The Sun Rises and The Fog Belts Away” while there is a…
EARLY FOG…Mel Torme: The Chart Years-Selected Singles 1949-62
One of the most influential singers today, with devotees including Michael Buble’ (who even stole his accented last vowel) , must be The Velvet Fog himself, Mel Torme’. Instead of going bel canto like Sinatra or Crosby, Torme’ pioneered the…
Doug MacDonald: Serenade to Highland Park
Cleanest of the cool toned, or coolest of the clean tones, guitarist Doug MacDonald continues to carry the bop guitar torch from Herb Ellis on this vintage sounding trio album of standards and originals. He’s in a trio setting, his…
Michael Eckroth Group: Plena Plena Plena
Pianist and composer Michael Eckroth brings Latin flavor to his tunes along with Alex Ayala-Edward Perez/b, Joel Mateo-Juan Felipe Mayorga/dr, Peter Brainin/ts-ss, Mauricio Herrera-Carlos Maldonado-Samuel Torres/perc and guests Brian Lynch/tp and John Fedchock/tb. The trio team sizzles onder Brainin’s soprano…
Lady A: Satisfyin’
Lady A sounds like she was weaned on the Chitlin’ Circuit, stomping out the blues like a female Joe T ex on this bare-footin’ album with a cast that includes John Oliver II playing just about everything on percussion and…
DIZ AND MISSION IMPOSSIBLE…Dizzy Gillespie & Lalo Schifrin: Studio and ‘Live’ Collaborations 1960-62
Trumpet icon Dizzy Gillespie has been accused of not having a “definitive” album by which to introduce people to. Part of this problem is because his career started during the days of single 78 albums, and by the time that…
Bill Charlap: Street of Dreams
Classic, vintage and tasty trio work served up by pianist Bill Charlap an his bandmates Peter Washington/b and Kenny Washington/dr. This team has worked together for years, and the benefits of this long term relationship are palpable, with almost mind-reading…
EARLY MINGUS MOODS…John Dennis: The Debut Recordings
Before he became known as the most famous/notorious bassist/composer in jazz, Charles Mingus was a member of the fledgling Debut catalogue, which specialized in the “new thing” of adventurous bop. One of Mingus’ discoveries was Bud Powell-influenced piano man John…
SO, THESE FOUR BEATS GO INTO THIS BAR…Scott Ellison: There’s Something About The Night
If you want the blues rocked or the rocks blues in the fashion of Stevie or Jimmie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, or anyone else on the Austin to Chicago blues highway, check out this latest release by…