Roy Cumming

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Paul Kendall: My Shining Hour

Read "My Shining Hour" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 15, 2025

If you were to randomly draw the names of “most charming and best-loved American popular standards" out of a hat, chances are you could not fare much better than Pennsylvania-based baritone saxophonist Paul Kendall has by design on My Shining Hour, a splendid album whose playlist encompasses no less than eight singular and seductive melodies from the Great American Songbook. Of course, no melody, regardless of its inherent elegance and charm, is sufficient by itself to garner sweeping ...

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Album Review

Roy Cumming: Edgeless

Read "Edgeless" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
December 4, 2007

No hype. No technological wizardry or envelope pushing persuasions. Freelance bassist Roy Cumming and his trio--pianist David Leonhardt and drummer Paul Wells)--simply use excellent playing, true jazz interaction, and a suave demeanor, to produce the enjoyable Edgeless. With a collective experience of more than sixty years in the biz they've played and/or composed for some of the who's who in jazz: Chick Corea, Hank Crawford, Joe Williams, Larry Goldings and many more. But if the music has ...