Jazz Articles about Tom Wakeling

About Tom Wakeling

Album Review

Tom Wakeling: West by Northwest

Read "West by Northwest" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 20, 2025

West by Northwest is another in a recent series of splendid small-group concert recordings, this one by bassist Tom Wakeling's close-knit quartet, taped in February 2024 for a receptive audience at the Ravenscroft Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Wakeling had teamed for a number of years with pianist Angelo Versace and drummer Dom Moio. When trumpeter Jason Carder signed on, expanding the group's size from trio to quartet, Wakeling writes, “we all knew instantly we'd found the magic ...

Album Review

Rebecca Kilgore: The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1

Read "The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
May 15, 2021

What do “Doxy," “Cottontail," “Dear Bix" and “I Wanna Get Married" all have in common? Clues to a party game on some lost episode of Playboy After Dark? Give up? All make an appearance on Rebecca Kilgore's “swing and have fun" release, which is just what Kilgore and her co-conspirators (including her husband, Dick Titterington, on cornet) accomplish. Eclectic is the word for this marvelous compilation, whose composers run from Rube Bloom to Richard Rodgers.. But that's good. Putting the ...