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Benjie Porecki: All That Matters
by Richard J Salvucci
From the cover graphics to its musical content, this is a funky, soulful, bluesy, and yet oddly reassuring recording. Benjie Porecki has at least a half a dozen other titles to his name, and has played with Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan, Nnenna Freelon Stevie Wonder and Tom Scott. Porecki is primarily a pianist, but hits the Hammond organ for some of the more “sanctified" numbers. From groove to ballad, Porecki plays convincing blues-drenched music, mainly his own compositions. ...
Continue ReadingPaul Carr: Musically Yours
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ex allievo di Arnett Cobb, Paul Carr ne ha ereditato tutta la verve soulful, unita ad un fraseggio robusto e vigoroso tipico della scuola texana. Due qualità esercitate al meglio in questo omaggio a Joe Henderson, pervaso da una trascinante vis hardboppistica. Il suo è un quintetto prestigioso, che avvalendosi della presenza di Mulgrew Miller e Lewis Nash, ha le sue carte vincenti in un contagioso ed accattivante dinamismo. Nonostante ciò, è un disco che non riesce a lasciare il ...
Continue ReadingPaul Carr: Musically Yours
by Michael P. Gladstone
Houston's tenor saxophonist Paul Carr has provided, within a short recording career span, a number of intriguing and solid appearances. On his debut, Just Noodlin' (Jazz Karma, 2006), Carr provides a soulful and robust tenor sax in the style of Hank Mobley without seeking any deliberate comparisons. In addition, with his appearance on Eric Byrd's Brother Ray (Self Published, 2008), Carr is one of the four-man sax section which pays homage to the Ray Charles Atlantic Records period. Carr is ...
Continue ReadingPaul Carr: Musically Yours: Remembering Joe Henderson
by C. Michael Bailey
Listening to the music of tenor saxophonist Paul Carr, one recognizes that he has completely imbued the music of the late Joe Henderson, to whom he pays tribute on Musically Yours: Remembering Joe Henderson. Growing up in Texas under the spell of such “Texas Tenors" as Don Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb, Carr developed a big blusey tone.Carr uses this to great effect as he draws the funk and blues out of the Henderson's compositions--performing them quite differently from ...
Continue ReadingPaul Carr: Musically Yours
by Edward Blanco
Remembering one of the great tenor masters of jazz, saxophonist and educator Paul Carr pays homage to the late Joe Henderson by offering an artful session of hard-driving bop with his third album as a leader on Musically Yours. He borrows the title from Henderson, who once autographed an album that Carr brought with him to a gig at the now closed Washington, DC jazz club, The One Step Down, where the saxophonist signed “To Paul, Musically Yours, Joe."
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