Jazz Articles

Bert Dalton: Midnight Coffee

by Richard Hague
November 15, 2002

That you visited this site allows us to comfortably draw certain inferences: as you were being born, your parents instructed the Delivery Room staff, “Lay some Jimmy Smith on the speakers. If it's a boy, switch to Maynard; if it's a girl, Carmen." Your ears started off on the right foot.

We may further conclude that, as a teenager, you didn't have much truck with those candy-ass jocks. You knew that A 440 referred, not to a canter around the ...

Bert Dalton: Midnight Coffee

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2001

Bert Dalton is a jazz pianist hailing from Chicago originally, who has played with the likes of Bud Shank, Herbie Mann, Anita O'Day, Regina Carter, and Frank Morgan. Dalton's interests in music evidently run wide; currently Dalton is Music Director of the National Dance Institute of New Mexico, where he is now also based of course. This is his long-overdue debut record, and it is a fine one at that. Here he unveils his own musical talent and facility at ...