Jazz Articles about Chuck Findley

About Chuck Findley

Album Review

Cathy Segal-Garcia: The Jazz Chamber

Read "The Jazz Chamber" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
November 2, 2018

On this album, Cathy Segal-Garcia, a vocalist and educator on the Los Angeles jazz scene, comes up with something special, working with a chamber orchestra and a group of jazz musicians to produce a wide-ranging program that veers from lush romanticism to complex jazz-funk. On much of the disc, Segal-Garcia's thick, classically formal voice, combined with a full string section, presents a lilting hybrid of jazz and light classical music. On first hearing it sounds a bit too ...

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Album Review

Chuck Findley with the Metropole Orchestra: Star Eyes

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

Trumpeter Chuck Findley, who’s seen and heard most often these days (evenings) with Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show band, recorded this pleasant, even–tempered album some time ago (how long isn’t clear) with the large and always impressive Metropole Orchestra under former conductor Rob Pronk who also wrote all the charts. Findley once shared an album with Bobby Shew ( Trumpets No End, I believe). I couldn’t tell them apart then, and couldn’t do so now, even if Regis were ...