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Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Dennis Chambers, Joey DeFrancesco: The JazzTimes
by Jim Santella
When a tune has a catchy sound to it, the melody lingers on. Paul Bollenback, Randy Brecker, Joey DeFrancesco and Bob Berg each contribute memorable compositions to this album; compositions that catch your ear and leave you happy to hear them again. Berg placed his tune “Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" on two previous albums as well as on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1992 Rhythmstick album. The piece works. Like Brecker’s “The Ada Strut" and Eddie Harris’ “Freedom Jazz Dance," Berg’s ...
Continue ReadingEndless Miles: A Tribute to Miles Davis
by Jack Bowers
A well--formed program of contemporary Jazz (for the most part anyway), presented for a good cause as well. A part of the net proceeds from Endlessmiles, recorded by a number of all--star groups at New York City's Birdland on May 26, 1998--the 72nd anniversary of the late trumpeter's birth--will be used to help establish an endowment for young musicians, the MilesDavis.com scholarship, to be administered by the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). Two of the eight songs ...
Continue ReadingBob Berg: Another Standard
by Robert Spencer
“In order for a tune to become a standard," says Karen Bennett in her liner notes, “it has to have enough appeal and substance to keep both musician and listener engaged on many levels for many years." Late Miles alumnus Bob Berg's Another Standard asserts that status for a lineup of familiar but not front-line tunes: “You and the Night and the Music," “Summer Wind," the Beatles' almost unrecognizable “Michelle," “Just in Time," “My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and ...
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