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Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2020

Lisa Maxwell, whose album Shiny! marks the recorded debut of her New York City-based Jazz Orchestra, is a pretty good composer and a very good arranger, even though several of her charts lean toward funk / rock, admittedly an acquired taste. Once she veers away from those two-beat cadences, as on “Ludie," “The Craw," “Hello, Wayne?" and John Carisi's “Israel," Shiny! really starts to shine. What Maxwell needs more than anything is a designer who can make her album cover ...

Album Review

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

Read "Shiny!" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 19, 2019

Esce in questi giorni, dopo una lunga gestazione, il debutto da leader di Lisa Maxwell, talentosa compositrice e arrangiatrice nota nell'ambiente del jazz statunitense e negli studios di registrazione. Lisa ha orchestrato e diretto colonne sonore per film e serie televisive, collaborato anche come sassofonista con gruppi rock (Guns 'n' Roses, Lenny Kravitz, Carole King), jazz (Gil Evans, Charlie Haden) e fusion (Hiram Bullock, Will Lee). Amica di Lew Soloff dai tempi in cui il trombettista suonava ...