If you don’t believe me, you could have checked on Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton’s business card that read “Inventor of Jazz”. Ok, so argue with him! These two boxed sets, each of 3 discs, consisting of 70 and 72 songs…
Author: George W. Harris
Trygve Seim/Frode Haltli: Our Time
Duets by Trygve Seim on soprano and tenor saxes with accordionist Frode Haltli create ethereal clouds of Byzantine meditations on this release. Seim’s tenor goes from sub-tones on the dainty “Madana Mohana” to high pitched sighs that compete in tone…
Pritesh Walia CD release @ Sam Fist Bar 10.31.24
Instead of delving into the Halloween world of ghosts and goblins, jazz fans were given the chance to hear the debut album of a different kind of spirit, that coming from the guitar of Indian born, LA local Pritesh Walia.…
JOE LA BARBERA: BROTHERS, BIG BANDS AND BILL
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT IF YOU DON’T KNOW JOE LA BARBERA, YOU DON’T KNOW JAZZ DRUMMERS. ONE OF TODAY’S L IVING LEGENDS, HE IS BEST KNOWN AS BEING A MEMBER OF BILL EVANS’ LAST TRIO, WHICH IS ARGUAGLY THE…
A MONTH OF GIVING THANKS
Yes, I agree with you…THIS YEAR WAS TOUGH! Everyone is angry at everyone! The election is nasty, and no matter who wins, half the country will be angry. Everything cost more. Travel is still tough. You can’t trust the media. …
PAT AND JOHN LABARBERA: A BAND OF BROTHERS, BIG BANDS, BUDDY RICH AND BEYOND
RARE THESE DAYS IS A ‘MUSICAL FAMILY” IN WHICH, LIKE JS BACH, A GROUP OF SIBLINGS CAN FORM THEIR OWN BAND. LAST YEAR, LA BARBERA BROTHERS JOE AND PAT JOINED FORCES WITH TONY AND PETER LEVIN TO TOUR AROUND AS…
JOE LA BARBERA: OF BROTHERS, BIG BANDS AND BILL
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT IF YOU DON’T KNOW JOE LA BARBERA, YOU DON’T KNOW JAZZ DRUMMERS. ONE OF TODAY’S L IVING LEGENDS, HE IS BEST KNOWN AS BEING A MEMBER OF BILL EVANS’ LAST TRIO, WHICH IS ARGUAGLY THE…
*****RINGER OF THE WEEK****BACK IN THE DAY…Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band-Live At Smalls 1996
It’s amazing how each member of this 1996 band of leader/guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel with Mark Turner/ts, Jeff Ballard/dr and Ben Street/b is now a major name on his respective instrument. To put things in perspective, Rosenwinkel is still a few…
Anne Burnell & Mark Burnell: This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
This is the second album I’ve heard from the husband and wife team of singers Anne and Mark Burnell (who also plays piano), and like the previous one, it is a hearty endorsement to the swinging bliss of marriage. They…
Matt Booth: Sun Prints
Playing both electric and acoustic bass, Matt Booth modernizes vintage hard bop with Steve Lands/tp, Sam Taylor/ts, Oscar Rossignoli/p-key and Peter Varnado/dr on this album of originals. Booth makes the bopping hot for the horns on “In Tongues” and leads…