Shedrick Mitchell plays piano and keyboards to create music to reflect his deep faith with an adroit team of Charles/dr, Burniss Travis/b, Nir Felder/g, Immanuel Wilkins/sax and a collection of guests. You can tell this chap has been to church…
Month: January 2022
Adam Baldych Quintet: Poetry
Violinist Adam Baldych brings together a quintet that includes pianist Anna Greta and trumpeter Paolo Fresu on a collection of soft and misty originals. Baldych’s strings yearn with Greta on “Stars” and gives Asian harmonics to the hand pulsated “Birds”…
Jared Schonig: Two Takes- Volume I Quintet, Volume II Big Band
Drummer and leader Jared Schonig creates a pair of albums with essentially the same material, delivering one in a small group setting and the other in a big band environment. Volume I has the composer with the team of Godwin…
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band: The Reset
Like all music groups, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band had to do a “Plan B” with recording and performing. This 5 song ep is appropriately titled, as the band has done a “Reset” with personnel and styles. Still with the…
Skyler Floe: Abstraction
Trumpeter and composer Skyler Floe leads a vintage sounding hard bop team of Sean Imboden/ts, Ateve Allee/p, Nick Tucker/b and Chris Parker/dr through a Blue Note-inspired session. The team bops around Allee’s ivories on “For Real” and the horns sparkle…
MORE JAZZ CLASSICS FROM MPS…Joe Pass: Intercontinental, Art Van Damme: Ecstasy, John Taylor Trio: Decipher, Clark Terry: Clark After Dark
German label MPS has been reissuing from their archives a cache of classic sessions from the 1970s, a time when acoustic jazz was trying to figure out how to hold on against the Philistines of rock and jazz fusion. These…
The Sugar Roots: Savage’s Life
Consisting of Chad Rupp/voc-g-p-harm, Jason Thomas/g, Samuel Gendler/p-org, Chandler Bowerman/dr, Charis Mercer/sax and Joe McCarthy/tp, the Oregon-based Sugar Roots take you to the dirt roads of Austin and the deep south with some gritty blues rocking. With the horn section…
LEO’S LATEST….Armaroli-Piccolo-Sharp: Blue In Mind, Pago Libre & Sooon: Friendship, Simon Nabatov: Loves
Leo Records roars in the new year… A mix of messages both verbal and musical are presented here, with Steve Piccolo speaking and giving speeches with vibist Sergio Armaroli and Elliot Sharp on guitar, soprano sax and computer. Piccolo gives…
A FITTING LAST WILL AND TESTIMONY…Harold Mabern: Mabern Plays Coltrane
The musical world misses hard bopping pianist Harold Mabern, like others of his generation like John Hicks, Cedar Walton and Tommy Flanagan, Mabern could swing and bop any style with lyricism and class, with his comfort food being hard bop…
Oscar Peterson: A Time For Love-Live in Helsinki 1987
Oscar Peterson was one of the select few musicians, one of the last of a breed, who was world renowned simply for his talents. No gimmicks, no “shows”, no attitude, simply a magisterial mastery of his craft that wowed both…