Here’s a lady that really defines “jazz vocalist”. Janice Borla teams up with a sleek and swinging team of “Scott Robinson/ts-fl, Art Davis/tp-fh, John McLean/g, Bob Bowman/b and Jack Mouse/dr for a mix of delivering lithe and expressive readings of…
Author: George W. Harris
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’…From Another World: A Tribute to Bob Dylan
Sick of Bob Dylan tributes by wannabes? Burnt out by Dylan’s latest voice? WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THIS ALBUM! You’re going to think life has meaning again! What you’ve got here is musicians and vocalists from various parts of the…
The Harder They Come: Restored, Remastered in HD
One of the all time important movies about modern music has been cleaned up and available on itunes and VHX. The 1973 film about a Jamaican singer not only catapulted Jimmy Cliff onto the pop stage, but introduced reggae to…
Sound Liberation: Days
The group Sound Liberation mixes styles ranging from modern R&B to rap and hip-hop, with this album, produced by jazzer Gene Pritsker, showing the good, bad and ugly of the genres. Of the former, a trio of songs by Chanda…
Brian Culbertson: Another Long Night Out
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his debut disc, Long Night Out, Brian Culbertson goes back in time to re-visit those original tracks with the wisdom of a score of years under his belt. He brings together contemporary/smooth jazzers such as…
JAZZ ROOTS: Jazz & The Philharmonic
Billed as a “historic concert merging jazz and classical music,” this PBS broadcast from Feb 28, 2014 includes a cd and dvd that mixes and matches classical, jazz and even a bit of folk. Top draw artists ranging from Bobby…
Billy Hart Quartet: One Is The Other
Teaming together again Mark Turner/ts, Ethan Iverson/p and Ben Street/b, drummer Billy Hart follows up on the previous All Our Reasons with a collection of originals that delivers subdued swing, blues, bop and post modern. A piece such as “Amethyst”…
Kris Bowers: Heroes & Misfits
I don’t know if he’s “the next big thing” a flash in the pan or somewhere in between. All I can tell you is that you can tell that keyboardist/composer Kris Bowers is trying. Mixing jazz and R&B, sometimes in…
JAZZ RED MEAT! The Paul Ayick Quintet: For G.A.
Miss the sounds of vintage hard bop that used to come from labels like Blue Note and Prestige? Here’s a trumpeter, Paul Ayick, that’s got the tone and swagger of Lee Morgan and he leads a classic quintet with Shay…
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
It’s been two score years since Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road put him over the top to make him a household name. This 4 cd/1 dvd boxed set has just about everything you’ll ever need, even including the actual…