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Chris Ho: Picasso Blue
by Dave Nathan
Pianist and electronic instrument wizard {$Chris Ho} has gathered his regular band, with one exception, into the studio for their 3rd release for Merrimack Records. The one exception is that regular drummer David Renick is spelled on several tracks by a bevy of different percussionists. Another outsider, Karen Briggs, has been added to the mix. The violinist makes an appearance on one track, the aptly named “Women in Art". All but one of the compositions on the album are by ...
Continue ReadingMichael Martin: Odyssey
by Dave Nathan
P>Michael Martin resembles a troubadour in that these wandering (a permanent odyssey, perhaps) minstrels of yore were often the major source of news. Martin's play list on this album covers a wide swatch of melodies that recount tales covering many things and using a number of vocal techniques to do so. Most tunes are from the pens of Joe Melnikas and Rob Mullins. With Martin on this undertaking are a wide variety of performers, several of them from jazz's A ...
Continue ReadingMichael O'Neill: Never Too Late
by Dave Nathan
Veteran guitarist Michael O'Neill brings to this album a set of enviable credentials. He worked with Stevie Wonder in the 1980's and has been with George Benson for the better part of 14 years. With that length of time, one expects to hear some of the master guitarist's style and approach in O'Neill. It's there, but O'Neill is no Benson clone by any means even as a member of the George Benson/Earl Klugh school of jazz. The O'Neill compositions, which ...
Continue ReadingKathi McDonald: Above and Beyond
by Dave Nathan
Kathi McDonald has appeared on more than 70 gold albums, virtually all of them as a backup vocalist for such rock and soul luminaries as the Pointer Sisters, Joe Crocker and especially, Ike and Tina Turner. Above and Beyond is the first album of her own in more than 25 years. That she can sing the blues as down and dirty and as soulful as anyone on today's scene is demonstrated throughout this session, but particularly on “Georgia Sunday Morning", ...
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