Jazz Articles about Jerry Watts

About Jerry Watts

Album Review

Steve Barta: Another Life Brazil

Read "Another Life Brazil" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 2012

Pianist Steve Barta continues his musical travels through Brazil that started with Blue River (Source Music, 2001), a collaboration with flautist Herbie Mann. Mann joined Barta on Another Life Brazil, performing his valedictory on the title tune shortly before his death at 73, in 2003. None other than Hubert Laws rounds out the wind parts on Another Life Brazil, but it is Mann's contribution that is the most compelling among an otherwise excellent Latin project. “Another Life ...

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Album Review

Steve Barta: Blue River

Read "Blue River" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 2001

Steve Barta lands squarely on the Jazz radar with this acclaimed collaboration with Herbie Mann. I met Steve Barta this past Holiday Season. He was demonstrating his most recent self- produced release The Twelve Days of Christmas (previously reviewed in these pages). Barta was joined by the esteemed flautist, Herbie Mann on a very Bossa “Christmas Song" on that outing. At the time, he told me there was much more of the same to be ...