Vocalist Sylvia Brooks works Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Jazz Club with Angelenos Christian Jacob/p, David Hughes/b, Kevin Kanner/dr, David Whithan/key-acc, Jeff Bunell/tp-fh and Brian Scanlon/ts-fl. The band shows its talents throughout, notable on the swinging The Red Pig flew Up The…
Month: January 2024
*****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10: A Beautiful Day, Revisited
This two disc set of previously unreleased material is special for a couple of reasons. One, it is rare glimpse of latter day sounds of piano giant Andrew Hill, and even better, it finds him in rare group forms, a…
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: The United States Air Force Band: The 2024 Jazz Heritage Series
You got to love a section of the armed forces that was created in honor of Major Glenn Miller. 75 years hence, the charts have been modernized here by Big Phat Band leader Gordon Goodwin, with his signature ideas prevalent…
NEW NO BUSINESS…The Attic & Eve Risser: La Grande Crue, Joel Futterman: Innervoice, William Parker-Hugo Costa-Philipp Ernsting: Pulsar, Arthur Blythe Quartet: Live From Studio Rivbea July 6, 1976
Frisky and free sounds from today and a past age delivered from No Business Records. Hold on tight! Consisting of Rodrigo Amado/ts, Goncalo Almeida/b, Onno Govaert/dr and Eve Risser/p, The Attic is recorded in Lisbon in 2023 for four songs…
Eric Bell: Vulnerability
Pianist Eric Bell brings together Cole Sainburg/b, Nico Vasquez-Dean Anbar-g and Eric Hirschhorn/ts for a collection of pastoral originals. Anbar creates an impressionistic atmosphere around the ivories on the Satie-esque “Start” and is nimble around the deep groove of “Fighting…
Oscar Peterson: City Lights
Oscar Peterson was a year in recovery from his 1993 stroke when this recording was made in Munich with his working team of Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen/b, Lorne Lofsky/g and Martin Drew/dr, but you sure wouldn’t suspect a thing, as the…
THREESOMES…Andy Pratt: Trio, Sam Ross: Live at the Mira Room Vol II
Andy Pratt sings and plays a Joe Pass-styled guitar with Joe Pollcastro/b and Phil Gratteau on this current release. His string work is clean and clear, rich on the intro to “Soon” and chiming on the Prez Prado classic “Patricia”,…
Kirk Edwards: Shout!
There are some artists that you can tell by one note that they grew up in the church, and Kirk Edwards is one of those guys. He plays mostly tenor sax, but throws in a bit of soprano and clarinet…
Band of Brothers (La Barbera & Levin) @ The Baked Potato 01.06.24
“I’m thrilled, because for the first time in years, I’m actually the youngest member of the band!” So joked 75 year old drummer Joe La Barbera between songs during the 90 minute set at the Baked Potato, with brother Pat…
Greg Chako Trio: Life After 40
This is the first album I’ve heard from guitarist Greg Chako, and I already want to dig deeper into his catalogue. What do I like about him? First, he writes his own material, which is quite wide in dimension, and…