Drummer Towner Galaher brings together a vintage sounding Hammond B3 trio with Lonnie Gasperini humming through the Leslie speakers, and Marvin Horne gliding on the guitar. Galaher plays to his strengths here, mixing blues shuffling originals like Gasperini’s hip “One…
Month: June 2023
Isaiah J. Thompson: The Power Of The Spirit
Recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center and produced by Wynton Marsalis, this album features a pianist/composer that deserves some attention. Isaiah J. Thompson lead a team of Julian Lee/ts, Philip Norris/b and TJ Reddick or Domo Branch/dr through a pair…
Alyse Korn & Robert Kyle: Tuesday’s Child
Playing piano and bringing in an ethereal voice, Alyse Kornteams up with woodwind player and percussionist Robert to lead a team of Kevin WInard/dr, and guest Hussain Jiffry/b, Ahmet Turkmenoglu/b, Leonice Shinneman/tab and Howard/Phyllis Silverstein/snaps on this fragrant collection of…
THE VOICE OF A WOMAN…Julie Christensen: The Price We Pay For Love, Linda Carone: Lemon Twist, Robyn Spangler: Last Call
Ladies sing the hues… The fragile voice of Julie Christensen is presented in a variety of forms here, supported by a mix and match team of Michael Moss/g, Sergio Webb/slg, Steve Schwelling/dr, John Funkhouser/p, Karen Hammack/p and Chris Tench/stlg, all…
Robert Glasper: Run The World Season 2
Robert Glasper teams up with Derrick Hodge to compose music for the series Run The World, and the result is possibly his most satisfying album for straight-ahead fans in years. There are a couple of soulful pop pieces, such as…
Roger Reynolds: For A Reason
Composer Roger Reynolds boasts a wide variety of penmanship in this double disc of music that ranges from classical to ambient. All of the pieces range from 20-32 minutes, so there is a lot of room for atmosphere. Pablo Gomez…
ELVIS’ FIRST BASSIST…Bill Black’s Combo: White Silver Sands
One of the pioneers of what was first called “rockabilly” which turned into “rock and roll”, bassist Bill Black made his name early on as the bassist for a young kid named Elvis Presley, slapping the bass on tunes “That’s…
Gonzalo Grau & La Clave Secreta
Sizzling salsa is delivered by leader/composer/keyboardist Gonzalo Grau and his festive team consisting of Panagiotis Andreou/b, Pablo Bencid/dr, Marcos Lopez/timb, Fausto Cuevas III-Roberto Quintero/cong, Albert Leusink-Dan Bratigan/tp, Shlomi Cohen/as, Felipe Salles/ts and Manolo Mairena/voc. There are enough guests that come…
Thomas Fonnesbaek & Justin Kauflin: Danish Rain
Warm and evocative duets between bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek and pianist Justin Kauflin were recorded in a couple days back in March of 2022. Kauflin must have taken his Bill Evans pills t hose mornings, as he has that classic romantic…
VINYL REVIVAL…Leroy Vinnegar Sextet: Leroy Walks!, Andre Previn and His Pals Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell: West Side Story
If you haven’t noticed that you are living in a Golden Age of recorded music, you aren’t paying attention. Never in my life has it been so easy to have access to so much music in so many different ways…