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Holidays
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snowbound; My Favorite Things; Solstice; Blue Xmas; What Are You Doing New
Year's Eve?; Sleigh Ride; A Child is Born; The Christmas Song; I've Got My Love to
Keep Me Warm
Compton's Finest
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise;
Compton’s Finest;
I Can’t Help It;
Voyage;
Body and Soul;
Monk’s Dream;
In a Sentimental Mood;
SJB.
Eric Reed Quartet at Smoke
by Nick Catalano
A garrulous Eric Reed traveled from his teaching gig at the University of Tennessee to lead a quartet at Smoke on March 9, 2023. Before the first set began Reed delivered lengthy commentary on Miles Davis, Benny Golson and the recently deceased Wayne Shorter, and included compositions by the latter two in the opening set. His ...
Personalities
By Chris Oatts
Label: BCM&D Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: (all compositions by Chris Oatts, except where noted all arrangements by Chris Oatts) Alley
Birds; Dragon Night; Building Blocks; Shade of Jade (Joe Henderson); Jean’s Scene; Bewitched
(Richard Rogers); Philly Smash Tune; Not While I’m Around (Stephen Sondheim); Sweet
Prince; Personality (Johnny Burke and Jimmy van Heusen).
Vincent Ding Assembles All-Star Big Band & Strings For A Scintillating Debut
Vincent Ding is a bright new flame in the world of vocal jazz. Refreshingly steeped in the traditions of icons like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, Ding blends this rich lineage with a depth of autobiographical authenticity from his Taiwanese-American roots to create music that is both thoughtful and powerfully rooted in hard-driving swing. Backed ...
Norman David: Forty-Year Wizard of The Eleventet
by Victor L. Schermer
A few years ago, a musician friend suggested I go hear a band that was playing at a place in Bella Vista, Philadelphia, a neighborhood with a significant jazz history (violinist Joe Venuti and guitarist Eddie Lang lived there and are honored with several plaques and a mural) -but not much current music to speak of. ...
Eric Reed at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
by Nick Catalano
Hard Bop continues to find a home in NY's Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. For decades the room featured One for All -a group whose stalwart players Eric Alexander, Steve Davis, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Jim Rotondi, and Joe Farnsworth had critics comparing them to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. These players often led smaller groups into ...