Jazz Articles about Stuart Elster

About Stuart Elster

Album Review

Jimbo Ross is a jazz musician who happens to play the violin, not a violinist who happens to play jazz. And yes, there is a difference. Actually, Ross plays a specially designed five-string electric viola/violin on So Do It, as he did on Jazz Passion and Latin Satin, his debut album for Bodacious Records in 2024, and has for the better part of his four-decades-plus career on studio dates, concerts and guest appearances with a veritable who's who of jazz ...

Album Review

Jimbo Ross: Jazz Passion & Satin Latin

Read "Jazz Passion & Satin Latin" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
September 1, 2024

Jazz Passion & Satin Latin from elite viola player Jimbo Ross offers a dozen selections drawn across a wide array of resources. From tried-and-true GASsers, to more obscure, but, fascinating, jazz compositions, all seasoned with Latin flavorings, Ross and his compadres deliver an invigorating session. The album opens auspiciously with Ross in viola-guitar unison in a heated Latin-straight-ahead take covering of “Delilah." It mirrors Clifford Brown and Max Roach's arrangement from their classic 1954 Grammy Hall of ...

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Justin Chart: The Midnight People

Read "The Midnight People" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 3, 2022

Saxophonist Justin Chart is an inventive and versatile musician who spontaneously creates mellifluous and enthralling soundscapes. Leading a synergistic band of like-minded sidemen. Chart excels in live improvisations that are simultaneously free as well as charmingly accessible. His output in the third decade of the century has been prolific without sacrificing artistic vision. The Midnight People is Chart's third release of 2022 and continues the trend started in its predecessors.The title track, for instance, simmers with a soulfulness ...

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Stuart Elster Trio: Get It Right

Read "Get It Right" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
November 1, 2006

With a blast of early 1960s soul jazz, the Stuart Elster trio gets it right, which coincidentally is the title of the group's second album. It wouldn't be difficult to compare this sound to that of the Bobby Timmons trio, especially given the bouncy and infectuous riffs presented on the first portion of this album. LIke the title track, “Up In There" and “Waltz For Rachel" are just as tuneful; bassist Luther Hughes and drummer Paul Kreibich contribute to the ...