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Tom Wakeling: West by Northwest

by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Continue ReadingRebecca Kilgore: The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1

by Richard J Salvucci
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 ...
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