Jazz Articles about Clifford Carter

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Album Review

Shunzo Ohno: Live at Joe's Pub

Read "Live at Joe's Pub" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 28, 2026

A string section? In Joe's Pub? Strange as that may seem, it is clearly the case on veteran trumpeter Shunzo Ohno's latest album, recorded Live at Joe's Pub in New York City. The seven-member section, led by Ohno's daughter, cellist Sasha Ohno, is not mere window dressing, as it plays a sizable role on every one of the album's eight numbers and is, in fact, the only voice heard on Ohno's gossamer “Firefly." What better way to get ...

Album Review

Kathy Ingraham: Everlasting Cool

Read "Everlasting Cool" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
October 13, 2022

If you have a lovely mezzo-soprano voice, lots of chops, a feel for selling a song, a talent for storytelling, and some sense of why tradition is what it is, you end up with Kathy Ingraham. Ms. Ingraham is also not afraid of the big no-no, singing standards (and, lo and behold, their verses too), although she has been known to write her own material too. Whatever the case, she is a treat to listen to and, with a nonpareil ...