Here’s a fresh musical voice in singer, pianist and composer Mavis Pan. She brings in woodwind masters Ted Nash and Geoff Burke along with Mark Wade/b and Jared Schonig/dr for a Baker’s Dozen of originals that are textured and as…
Month: November 2024
Sam Phillips: A Boot And A Shoe
Known for her early work with the genre of “Contemporary Christian Music” and then doing some psycho pop work later on, Sam Phillips made a sharp turn on this recently reissued 2004 album. Produced by roots specialist T-Bone Walker, this…
Micah Thomas: Mountains
Pianist Micah Thomas is caught recorded at a gig at NYC’s Jazz Gallery back in June, 2023 with a team of Nicole Grover/ts, Adam O’Farrill/tp, Kanoa Mendenhall/b, Caleb Smith/tb, Kweku Sumbry/dr and Immanuel Wilkins/as. The tunes flow together as in…
Dharma Down: Owl Dreams
The quartet of Duncan Hardy/as-qanun, Mike Effenberger/p, Scott Kiefner/b and John Mettam/dr bring together an album of mostly originals of various moods. Hardy’s traditional string instrument, the zanun, creates an exotic drone on “Jalla Man” and a meditative mood for…
King Llama: Fata Implexis
Modern plugged in fusion sounds ar delivered by the core team of Ryan T. Bailey/g-prog, Luis Briones/dr, Antony Crawford/b and Billy Paulsen/g along with a bus load of guests on an album inspired by the likes of Yes and RTF.…
Michael Pallas: Gateway
Trombonist Michael Pallas teams up with Lomar Brown/as, Yeisson Villamar/p, John Benitez/b, Jonathan Barber/dr and Nelson Matthew Gonzalez/pec for a collection of originals. There’s a nice Latin percolation to the dancing “ Life On Mars” and the soulful “Streaming Hope”…
The Hot Club of San Francisco: Original Gadjo
The team of Paul Mehling/g-banj-voc, Evan Price/vi, Dexter Williams/b-tb, Jordan Samuels-Nelson/g, Cullen Luper/v and Hunter Mathews/g deliver original compositions inspired by Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club with Stephane Grappelli. The swinging is easy on pieces like “Systeme D” and the waltzing…
POPPISH VOCALS…Janis Siegel & Yaron Gershovsky: The Colors Of My Life, Allyson Briggs: Promises, Prayers and Raindrops, Jeff Harnar: The Second Time Around
Jazz voices for the mainstream… Manhattan Transfer vocalist Janis Siegel joins with pianist Yaron Gershovsky and guests including Boris Kozlov-David Finck/b, Cliff Almond/dr and some cameo vocalists and strings for an album of Cy Coleman compositions. A bit of the…
THREESOMES…The Kris Davis Trio: Run The Gauntlet, Andrew Wilcox: Dear Mr. Hill, John Chin-Jeong Lim Yang-Jongkuk Lim: Journey Of Han
Piano trios in action… Kris Davis gives a tribute to influential female pianists on this trio album with Robert Hurst/b and Johnathan Blake, saluting well know ivory ladies like Carla Bley, Geri Allen and Renee Rosnes as well as lesser…
Naomi Moon Siegel: Shatter The Glass Sanctuary
Trombonist and composer Naomi Moon Siegel creates modern moods in a mix of songs and a suite with Ray Larsen/tp, Marina Albero/p, Andy Coe/g, Kelsey Mines/b and Christopher Icasiano/dr. The five part title track suite includes some tensile piano or…