The quartet of Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen/as-ss-fl, Carol Liebowitz/p, Tom Blancarte/b and John Bernard Wagner/dr put together an album of highly intuitive originals. Jensen’s alto broods around the swirling and chaotic “Gnom” and pleads with Liebowitz on the somber “The…
Month: July 2024
TWO KINDS OF 70s SOUL…Silver Convention: Get Up & Boogie, Little Richard: Right Now
Two sounds from the 70s, one a trend, one still alive and well. When disco was king in the late 1970s, the vocal group Silver Convention had a ton of hits for those with boogie fever. Linda Thompson, Ramona Wulf…
The Bobby Broom Organi-Station: Jamalot
Hard bopping guitarist Bobby Brown is caught in various concert performances with his working team of Ben Paterson/B3 and Kobie Watkins/dr. He shows he knows how to work a room, getting hip on a driving read of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”…
LADIES AT THE MIC…Franks Bak featuring Sinne Eeg: Softer Than You Know, Amber Weekes: A Lady With A Song, Synia Carroll: Water is My Song
Voices that are not gender neutral! Pianist Franks Bak brings in the cool emotions of the perfect enunciations from Sinne Eeg on this collection of tunes from the pen of Helle Hansen. The backing team of Peter Sprague/g, Thomas Vang/b,…
Bob Mover & Walter Davis Jr.: The Salerno Concert
A vintage recoding of alto saxist Bob Mover dueting with pianist Walter Davis in Salerno, Italy back in 1989 just got released, and it’s a classic mixture of Old School artist. The sound is a tad distant, but the energy…
Adam Hersh: Tornado Watch
Playing piano, Rhodes and moog, Adam Hersh brings together Evan Abounassar/tp, Devin Daniels/as, Andrew Renfroe/g, Jermaine Paul/b and Myles Martin/dr for a night of music at LA’s Sam First Bar. Except for Herbie Hancock’s “Toys” (which has some bold horn…
Dechter/Frank Quartet with Josh Nelson@Sam First Bar 07.19.24
One of the most uncompromising swinging groups in LA is that co-led by guitarist Graham Dechter and bassist Alex Frank, with drummer Kevin Kanner supplying the steady pulse. This night at Sam First Bar, the trio brought in one of…
Andy James: Let Me See Your Heart
One of the classiest readers of standards, Andy James brings together an all star group that includes (but is not limited to) the A list of Jon Cowherd-John Beasley/key-p, Ronnie Foster/B3, Chico Pinheiro-Larry Koonse/g, John Patitucci/b, Alex Acuna/perc, Clarence Penn-Rudy…
Twin Talk: Live
The threesome of Dustin Laurenzi/ts, Katie Ernst/b and Andrew Green/dr depart from the usual tenor trio format on this collection of in studio “live” recordings by adding the clever notion of having bassist Ernst add harmonic vocals into the mix.…
Omar Sosa: Dame Un Tiempo-Live In Bremen 2000
One of the most festive jazz musicians. Omar Sosa is caught here a the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof in Bremen Germany with his band of SubZ/rap, Sheldon Brown/ss-ts-bcl, Geoff Brennan/b, Elliot Kavee/dr and Gustavo Ovalles/perc. The two disc, five song concert consists…