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Jazz vocalist Monika Ryan has recorded a series of albums as leader since 2000 with the sensuous and audacious Windmills, a tribute to the lyrics of composers Alan and Marilyn Bergman, one of her latest projects. Voicing a repertoire of beautiful love songs and ballads, Ryan caresses the lyrics of each song with a measure of emotion and taste making for a vocal jazz album that's a pleasure to hear often. Supporting her crisp vocal instrument are a ...

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Brad Goode: Montezuma

Read "Montezuma" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 6, 2015

It's not every trumpeter that affectionately garners the appellation, “Little Red Rodney," as Chicago-born and now Boulder, Colorado-located artist, Brad Goode once did. And, it's not only because of what grows from under his cap and on his chin. Goode, who has performed with the “Red Arrow" and many other jazz and pop greats as both a lead and jazz player, is world-renown as an incredibly talented and multi-dimensional trumpeter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, “jazz ambassador" and educator. With ...

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Brad Goode: Chicago Red

Read "Chicago Red" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 20, 2013

Trumpeter Brad Goode may be approaching a decade spent in Boulder, Colorado, but his heart will always belong to Chicago. Goode was born in The Windy City and, though the twists and turns of life took him elsewhere, he returned there to do his master's degree at DePaul University and launch his career. He held court at the legendary Green Mill from the mid-'80s through the late '90s, holding down a weekly gig that would often find hometown heroes like ...

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Brad Goode: Tight Like This

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 10, 2011

È caratterizzato dal timbro pastoso del leader e dal grande affiatamento del suo quartetto questo Tight Like This, album apprezzabile sia sotto l'aspetto esecutivo che di espressione. Brad Goode propone una scaletta ben amalgamata tra originali e rivisitazioni di brani che per l'occasione vengono interpretati con grande unione d'intenti, come nel caso di “Changes" di Walter Donaldson, dove ognuno dei componenti dà prova di duttilità e piena messa a disposizione del compagno di ventura. Tra i momenti più intensi vanno ...

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Brad Goode: Tight Like This

Read "Tight Like This" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
December 18, 2010

Tight Like This is trumpeter Brad Goode's fourth Delmark release and it's clear, perhaps more so than with any of his previous three, that his musical path is littered with subtle delights the like of which take their time to appreciate. Sure, he's capable of virtuosic flight as much as any highly accomplished trumpet player, but he knows that in these early years of the twenty-first century it takes something more than that to catch the ear. ...

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Brad Goode: Tight Like This

Read "Tight Like This" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 21, 2010

Chicago-native trumpeter Brad Goode is steeped in the tradition. His previous Delmark offering, Nature Boy (2008), was very well-received for its conservative yet creative approach toward standards in a quartet format. He returns, delving deeper into jazz styles of the 1920s and '30s, updating them in a wonderfully lo-fi way. Tight Like This celebrates the early trumpet pioneers, most notably Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. “Changes," composed in 1927 by Walter Donaldson ("My Blue Heaven" and “Yes ...

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Brad Goode: Nature Boy

Read "Nature Boy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2008

Classe ’63, Brad Goode vanta un curriculum di tutto rispetto, che lo ha portato a collaborare con artisti del calibro di Curtis Fuller, Ira Sullivan, Eddie Harris e Jack De Johnette. È un brillante trombettista di formazione boppistica, che ama trarre dal suo strumento le inflessioni più morbide e delicate. Nel disco per la Delmark ampio è infatti il suo uso della sordina, per mettere in mostra uno stile lirico e rilassato, unitamente a trame costruite con eleganza e cura ...