This is the second release I’ve heard by the vocalist Eugenie Jones, and with this being a 2 disc outing, I’m doubly impressed from the first time, and that’s saying something. She writes a few of the tunes, teams up…
Month: April 2022
Kenneth Brown: Love People
Drummer Kenneth Brown mixes modern soul with vintage post bop on this album with Russell/Gunn/tp, Greg Tardy/ts-cl, Will Boyd/ss, Jamel Mitchel/ts, Darryl Hall/b, Taber Gable/p-key and Candace Ivory/voc, Kenny Springs/voc, Rhea Sunshine/spoken word, and Keith Brown/vocoder-key. The result is a…
Blue Road Records Studio Sessions Band: Ira The Tribute Album
The career of legendary multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan (1931-2020) is celebrated here by the guitar-dominated band of Brev Sullivan, Leo Quintero and Miriam Stone along with Javier Espinoza/b, Yainer Horta/key-ss and Kevin Abanto/dr. The 18 string’d mix works well on the…
TODAY’S TRUMPET…Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited
This recording of a 2019 concert in Chicago that gives an excellent display of today’s generation of upcoming leaders. Trumpeter Marquis Hill sounds like he’s taken the baton from the likes of Woody Shaw, fronting a band with breathy saxist…
Mark Lockheart: Dreamers
British composer Mark Lockheart creates a mix of atmospheres on tenor and soprano sax with his team of Elliot Galvin/key, Tom Herbert/b and Dave Smith . His tenor is reminiscent of 70s albums by John Klemmer, displaying a bit of…
IF BACH WERE A BOPPER…John Lewis: The Early Years Before the MJQ 1946-52
What many music fans don’t realize is that much of what became known as Modern Jazz or “Bebop” was actually inspired by the baroque music of JS Bach. Don’t believe me? Take a “Concerto Grosso” by Bach, and see how…
WEST COAST DANISH…Cool Sweetness Sextet: Shoehorn Shuffle
The “West Coast Cool” sounds of the 1950s popularized by Chet Baker and Shorty Rogers is delivered by the Danish team of Marten Lundgren/tp, Jens Sondergaard/ts, Anders Jacobsen/tb, Pelle Von Bulow/g, Ole Skipper/b and Aage Tanggaard/dr. Comprised of mostly originals,…
Soren Kristiansen & Thomas Fonnesbaek: The Touch-Plays the Music of OP & NHOP
One of the swingingest pianists in jazz history, Oscar Peterson, is given tribute with one of his best bassists, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen ( better known as NHOP) on this concert of duets between Soren Kristiansen/p and Thomas Fonnesbaek/b. The May,…
XX CHROMOSOMES SING…Yvonne Flores: Sheer Bliss, The Christiane Karam Quintet: Nar, Kristen Lee Sergeant: Falling
Women of the word… Water color toned vocalist Yvonne Flores mixes and matches musicians with her album of originals and a couple of covers. Including, but not limited to the team of Jo Cohen/ts, Peter Horvath-David Mathews/p-key, Ray Obiedo-Mike Wollenberg/g,…
TRIOS! Todd Zimberg: An Afternoon In Sellwood, Vein: Our Roots, Martin Harley, Daniel Kimbro & Sam Lewis: Come
As the Bible says, “A chord of three strands is not easily broken”. Here are a trio of trios… The trio of drummer Todd Zimberg, pianist Michael Gotz and bassist Perry THoorsell deliver classy and timeless mainstream jazz on this…