Good King Bad George Benson is on a career roll! His last release (Guitar Man) was a cooker that rated up there with his CTI material way back when, and this tribute to Nat King Cole is just as impressive…
Author: George W. Harris
The Yellowjackets: A Rise in the Road
The venerable band The Yellowjackets have survived a myiad of personnel and style changes in their 32 year history. With a true jazz heart, they have improvised well over these challenges that would have made a lesser band either give…
Jon Wirtz: Tourist
I love an album that you just can’t label. This one by keyboardist/composer Jon Wirtz is an audio journey through a world of sounds, styles and moods. Ethereal voice delivered by Sarah Miles on “Slumber” leads into a Pat Metheny-esque…
Trevor Anderies: Shades of Truth
I gotta be honest with you. After listening to the first intriguing instrumental on this album by drummer Trevor Anderies and then the following title track which includes the Grade B Maple Syrup voice of Dwight Trible, I was ready…
FESTIVE LADIES!!! Alex Pangman: Have a Little Fun, Le Percolateur: Le Percolateur
Ya wanna go out and have a good time? Don’t want to answer all of the questions about the meaning of life, but just forget the daily troubles for a while? Here are a couple of records to get you…
DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE…Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson: Things Are Getting Better, Chet Baker: Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe, Bill Evans Trio: How My Heart Sings!, Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!, Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk
Just like the old spiritual, you’re gonna lay down your cares and woes down by the Riverside when you hear these 5 reissues from the label that delivered some of the best music from the 50s and 60s and stands…
Perry Beekman: So In Love-Sings and Plays Cole Porter
Do we really need another reading of Cole Porter’s songbook? Well, if it’s done like this, we’ll welcome it in. Guitarist/vocalist Perry Beekman delivers a low key and cozy sample of well known, and, Thank God, more obscure Porter compositions.…
Putumayo Presents: Women of Brazil
If you want old school Brazilian, when bossa nova WAS a “new bump,” then this collection is going to want to walk the shores of Ipanema to find this release. Simple support by gentle guitars, sensitive percussion and little else…
Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard
I was initially very excited by the premise of this album, as it claims to be a musical commentary inspired by the Biblical book of Joshua. Remember the walls falling down? Rahab? Anyone out there go to Sunday or Hebrew…
HOT SUMMER SOUNDS
One of the real ways I knew that I was a grown up was when I didn’t have summers off from school anymore. What do you mean I have to work?!? Those three months of sleeping in late, staying up…