Jazz Articles about Jose James and Jef Neve

Jose James and Jef Neve: For All We Know

by Chris May
September 6, 2010

A newsworthy release, not just for the poised American songbook performances of Minneapolis-born, London-based singer José James and his accompanist, Belgian pianist Jef Neve, but also for its issuing label. The iconic Impulse! is not best known for vocal albums. Under its present owners, Universal Music/Verve, the onetime home of the new thing and its standard bearer, saxophonist John Coltrane, was mostly dormant during the 2000s, aside from a burst of reissue activity mid-decade to coincide with ...