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Lisa Rich: Long As You're Living
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With Long As You're Living ace jazz vocalist m: Lisa Rich and a team of New York A-listers soar across a dozen tracks of superior jazz. The album, her first since Highwire (Tritone Records, 2019) is a tour de force of musical talents and it once again validates Rich as one of our finest vocal artists. The title track opener, “Long As You're Living" hits with a hip 5/4 up-tempo take on the classic testament to optimism. Rich ...
Continue ReadingDuane Allen: Yin-Yang
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Duane Allen opens Yin-Yang with that time-tested standard, Cole Porter's “Night and Day," sounding very traditional in the beginning, with a nice Wes Montgomery-like sting on his notes. Nice enough, and it had me fooled for a minute, thinking we were going into ho-hum territory; but things really get interesting when the band veers away from the straight melody with an inventive and extended variation-on-the-theme interlude. Spirited playing, aided by bassist John Crooks and drummer Joe Schleicter. Allen's approach ...
Continue ReadingScott McCloud Trio: Untitled
by Jack Bowers
Here’s a fast–paced blowing session by a trio (and sometimes a quartet) of eager young neo–boppers from Charlotte, North Carolina, who redeem in spontaneity what they may lack in seasoning or finesse. While the vocabulary hasn’t yet fully matured, one has the feeling they are at least engaging in a series of impromptu conversations whose scope or outcome wasn’t prearranged. In the vernacular, they let it all hang out. McCloud, who attended the University of North Texas, is a full–throated ...
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