Playing piano, organ and keyboards, Dan Siegel creates a core of DJ Ginyard/b, Oscar Seaton/dr and Lenny Castro around a rotating guitar collection of Rob Bacon, Allen Hinds, Michael Miller, Dean Parks and Michael Miller on this collection of originals.…
Month: October 2024
CRUISE NIGHT ON VINYL…Ismael Rivera: Traigo De Todo, Hector Lavoe: Revento, Hector Lavoe: De Ti Depende, Johnny Pacheco: Canonazo, Celia & Johnny: Celiz & Johnny
Call it Salsa, call it Latin, call it what you want, but in the 1960s-70s Fania Records was making a lot of it with a ton of stars, and right now you get to hear some of the most exciting…
Steve Davis: We See
Smoke Sessions Records is one of the rare labels that still boasts of a definitive sound, and the sound you hear is bopping mainstream jazz. This album by trombone meister Steve Davis is a cooker, filled with today’s top line…
Leslie Pintchik: Prayer For What Remains
Creative pianist Leslie Pintchik brings together Steve Wilson/ss, Satoshi Takeishi/perc, Michael Sarin/dr and Scott Hardy/b for a mix of originals and creative covers in a meditative mood. She creates a warm environment with Sarin’s brushes on a delightful read of…
LADY VOX…Vivian Buczek: Le Grand Michel, Brenda Earle Stokes: Motherhood, Vanisha Gould: She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth
Women with a word.. The songbook of Michel Legrand is served well on this album by vocalist Vivian Buczek, joined by Mathias Heise/harm, Peter Asplund/tp-fh, Martin Sjostedt/p-key, Jesper Bodilsen/b and Zoltan Csorsz/dr. She mixes and matches throughout, with the highlight…
Aaron Parks: Little Big III
Pianist Aaron Parks teams with Greg Touhey/g, David Ginyard/b and Jongkuk Kim/dr on this Don Was-produced album that has a modern indie/Nashville feel. There’s a folksy plaintive feel to “Ashe’” and some Cumberland gap is thrown in on the dark…
Steve Lacy: Eight Classic Albums
Possibly the most accomplished modern jazz soprano sax player, Steve Lacy neve got the popularity that he deserved, probably because for most of this career his music was considered too left of center. This is a sad and unfair label,…
DELTA BLUES…Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway: Shake ‘Em On Down-Collected Recordings 1939-42
Two representatives of Depression Era Delta Blues are represented on this two disc, 50 song anthology. 75 percent of the music is led by Tommy McClennan (1905-61), with the rest being filled by one of his regular associates Robert Petway…
Nathan Hudson and Ben Loory: Music For Falling and Flying
A wide range of ideas from composers Nathan Hudson and Ben Loory, in terms of both instrumentation and composition, are presented on this digital release of modern musings. Clarinetist Andy Hudson joins with Annie Jeng for a duet entitled “Brace…
Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn
Pianist Christian Sands stretches out on this most recent release, adding a string section of Andrew Joslyn/vi-va, Ross Gilliland/b and Eli Weinberger/cel along with guests waren Wolf/vib and Gregoire Maret/harm to his core team of Yasushi Nakamura/b, Ryan Sands/dr and…