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Robert Jospe Quartet: The Night Sky
by Jack Bowers
Virginia-based drummer Robert Jospe leads an able quartet on The Night Sky, the ninth recording under his name. The music, much of which was written or co-written by Jospe, is for the most part robust and rhythm-heavy with Jospe's assertive drum kit and Daniel Clarke's busy keyboards front and center. The mood changes abruptly--delightfully so--on Track 8, wherein bassist Paul Langosch takes the lead on Leonard Bernstein's wistful “Some Other Time" (from the 1944 Broadway musical On the ...
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: Sings Ellington Hot And Cool
by C. Michael Bailey
All Class. In the end, there was Tony Bennett. Oft quoted and making a rock-hard point, Frank Sinatra once mused that Bennett was the finest male vocalist performing. And here in arguably the Autumn of his years is Bennett, performing at a new career height. Sings Ellington Hot and Cool is the fourth in a successful series of discs focusing exclusively on contemporaries of Bennett. These releases include 1992’s Perfectly Frank Frank Sinatra, Columbia 52965); 1993’s Steppin’ Out (Fred Astaire, ...
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