Here’s another edition of the prized BEST VOICES TIME FORGOT series by Fresh Sound Records. This one has Singer/pianist Rocky Cole, teaming with an orchestra conducted and arranged by tenor saxist Al Cohn, who recreates Woody Herman’s “Four Brothers” sax…
Category: Ringer of the Week
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Dwight Trible: Mothership
LA-based vocalist Dwight Trible is one of the few unique singers around. He’s got his own style, a mix of Paul Robeson gravitas with an Oscar Brown sense of gospel, and a flexibility all his own. This most recent album…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****A RETURN TO ONE’S FIRST LOVE…Alan Broadbent Trio: New York Notes
With so much post bop, post modern, everything, it’s wonderfully refreshing to hear an album like this one, with piano great Alan Broadbent taking our ears back to the roots of the modern in a joyful tribute to bebop music.…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK***THE BEST VOICE THAT TIME FORGOT…Frank D’Rone: Sings/After The Ball
Spain-based Fresh Sound Records has been looking under rocks and fallen trees for lost or forgotten vocal sessions by lost or forgotten vocalists. A while back we went through a bunch of female vocalists, now we’re rolling out the red…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Larry Koonse: New Jazz Standards Volume 4
Here’s an album that amply displays the strengths of the LA Jazz scene. Guitarist Larry Koonse is always seen at some local club, as well as the teammates here in pianist Josh Nelson (who’s one of the most in-demand accompanists…
KEEP THEM COMING!!! THE BEST VOICES TIME FORGOT…Pat Thomas: Jazz Patterns/Barbara Long: Soul, Honi Gordon:Sings, Sue Childs: Introducing
If you’re a fan of jazz vocalists, this series of reissues by Fresh Sound Records is manna from heaven. For the past year or so they have been digging deep into the archives and have found some incredibly talented artists…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Markus Burger-Peter Erskine-Bob Magnusson: The Alaska Sessions
There’s just a different level of sound and delivery when jazz is served by veteran pros like pianist Markus Burger, drummer Peter Erskine and bassist Bob Magnusson. This is a trio album, like, how many of these have you heard?…
OYE! Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band: Antidote
With a family background of Sicilian and Iberian, Chick Corea returns to his dna influences as he revisits material from his classic albums Touchstone and My Spanish Heart. As with all things Corea, these versions are fresh and different from…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Brandon Goldberg: Let’s Play
It’s both inspiring and intimidating to hear about adolescent childhood jazz prodigies. I’ve seen Joey Alexander, Emily Bear and Eldar Djangarov before they learned how to drive, and was impressed by their techniques and style. Here is a guy barely…
****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Rogerio Souza-Edinho Gerber-Ami Molinelli: Historia Do Choro
The lovely pulses and fragrances of Brail’s choro music is exquisitely captured on this collection of songs by a pair of 7 string guitarists, Rogerio Souza & Edinho Gerber, along with percussionist Ami Molinelli. The joyful strings and precious pulses…