Jazz Articles about Leon Jordan, Sr.

About Leon Jordan, Sr.

Album Review

Greg Farnese: Oh No, I'm In Love Again

Read "Oh No, I'm In Love Again" reviewed by Acacia Grace

by Acacia Grace
October 29, 2026

Greg Farnese brings an easygoing charm to Oh No, I'm in Love Again, an album that balances personality with a polished, straight-ahead jazz sensibility. The record opens conversationally, offering a glimpse of Farnese's playful character before settling into arrangements shaped by a classic horn section, crisp hi-hat patterns, upright bass, and fluid jazz piano. His warm, unassuming voice gives the material an inviting quality, while his phrasing suggests the theatrical instincts of a seasoned stage performer. Throughout the ...

Album Review

Maci Miller: Nine

Read "Nine" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
August 18, 2023

Philadelphia-based singer Maci Miller gives her audience a variety of looks, all of them good. On first hearing, Blossom Dearie, but then, Blossom Dearie was Blossom Dearie. No one ever sounded quite like her. Then again, there is some mid 1960s Nancy Wilson, hushed, clipped, all business. On reflecting that Dearie and Wilson an odd combination do make, one just listens and stops thinking influences, other than “eclectic." Or maybe Billie Holiday, if Miller is in the mood. A Philly ...