Jazz Articles about Audrey Welber

About Audrey Welber

Album Review

If you're partial to music that is sunny and freewheeling and almost commands a smile, you should have no trouble warming to Bluesville, the eighth recording by New Jersey-based Swingadelic, now twenty-two years old and counting. As its name implies, the orchestra (more often than not a mini-big band a dozen or so strong) re-creates an era wherein young fun-lovers (and some older ones as well) listened, danced and grooved to bands whose essential purpose was to make sure everyone ...

Album Review

Swingadelic: The Other Duke - Tribute to Duke Pearson

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 17, 2012

Divertente. È questo il primo aggettivo che salta in mente dopo aver ascoltato le dieci tracce di The Other Duke - Tribute to Duke Pearson, il nuovo lavoro firmato Swingadelic. Questo perché la musica del pianista e compositore Duke Pearson, qui omaggiata in maniera molto fedele ai tratti originali, porta dentro di sé una vitalità contagiosa e una netta sensazione di movimento, di continuo divenire. Album che si apre con la sorniona “Mississippi Dip," dove fiati e chitarra intrecciano una ...