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Album Review

Lisa Rich: I Still Rise

Read "I Still Rise" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
July 22, 2026

Building on a comeback that began with 2024's Long as You're Living (Tritone Records), vocalist Lisa Rich once again offers artful renderings of well-chosen material, sung with conviction and the wisdom that comes from a career re-forged through dogged resilience. And like its predecessor, I Still Rise features the exemplary talents of a fine supporting cast, with pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress and trumpeter Dave Ballou adroitly enhancing Rich's seasoned vocal stylings. After presenting her formidable abilities ...

Album Review

Lisa Rich: Long As You're Living

Read "Long As You're Living" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 4, 2024

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 ...

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Album Review

Duane Allen: Yin-Yang

by Dan McClenaghan
August 21, 2004

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 ...

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Album Review

Scott McCloud Trio: Untitled

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 1999

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 ...