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All Smiles on Hilton Head Island

Read "All Smiles on Hilton Head Island" reviewed by Gloria Krolak


Fly, drive, bike or walk, if you can, to The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. But make reservations first or you may be going home early. This intimate jazz and blues club is booked solid every night weeks in advance, and I do mean every night. So it's been for 15 years, an incredible feat by owners Bob and Lois Masteller. The club, with its well-planned sound system and sightlines for all 100 seats, was named ...

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Album Review

Allan Vach: Ballads, Burners and Blues

Read "Ballads, Burners and Blues" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier


Arbors Records has done a yeoman’s job of preserving the classic jazz sounds of the ‘30s through ‘50s by supporting and recording the best of contemporary musicians playing in those styles. With this recent release, Arbors has succeeded once again. Allan Vaché, the younger son of traditional jazz bassist and bandleader Warren Vaché, Sr. (Allan’s older brother is prominent cornetist/trumpeter Warren Vaché, Jr.), here surrounds himself with a group of close friends and exemplary musicians, and the ...

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Album Review

Various: The International Allstars Play Benny Goodman, Volume Two

Read "The International Allstars Play Benny Goodman, Volume Two" reviewed by Dave Nathan


This is the other shoe dropping on the International Allstars tribute to Benny Goodman and the various small groups he headed. This album comes from the same live concert in Hamburg that produced Volume 1 released in 2000. Obviously there was enough for two CDs and why they weren't packaged as a 2 CD set is puzzling. But no one can point the finger at Nagel Heyer claiming that they were trying to get 2 CDs where one would suffice. ...

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Album Review

Allan Vach: Allan and Allen

Read "Allan and Allen" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Allan Vaché and Harry Allen follow in the long and illustrious traditions of the jazz quintet with this high quality studio recording. Joined by a first class rhythm section of Eddie Higgins on piano, Phil Flanigan on bass and Eddie Metz on drums, they journey through 13 tunes, most of them familiar standards, and take almost a generous 70 minutes to complete their trip, for which we should be grateful. Vaché has been one of those in the forefront of ...

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Album Review

The Allan Vach: Revisited!

Read "Revisited!" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The title of this session refers to the fact that Vaché's quartet is “revisiting" the music of the classic Sidney Bechet/Muggsy Spanier recordings without “recreating" it (which would have been not only foolish but unnecessary). Only two songs put on wax by Bechet/Spanier ("China Boy," “Four or Five Times") are included along with one of Bechet's compositions ("Promenade aux Champs-Elysées") and another by Spanier ("Relaxin' at the Touro"). As with the rest of this warm tribute to two acknowledged masters ...


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