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Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You
by Patrick Burnette
As we slip deeper into the twenty-first century, jazz is a very broad church indeed, an umbrella term referring to dozens of sub-genres and styles. Even with all those tags and labels at our disposal, however, sometimes an album can be a little hard to pigeonhole. Guitarist/arranger/composer Brent Laidler's latest album, Wouldn't Be Here Without You, ...
Greg Prevost: Songs For These Times
by Scott Gudell
Greg Prevost never hides who or what his early influences were. They include five Brit Brats who journeyed to the blues fountainhead of Chess/Chicago/USA in 1964. When Prevost eventually slammed the garage door on his long lived band, The Chesterfield Kings, he turned his eyes back to the prize of the Chicago and Delta blues. Continuing ...
Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You
by Jack Bowers
Although mostly unnamed, those honored on Indiana-based guitarist Brent Laidler's Wouldn't Be Here Without You are friends, mentors and fellow musicians who have offered encouragement and support on his spiritual and musical journey through life, several of whom comprise the sextet on Laidler's second album as leader. Besides playing guitar (and repairing them ...
Kristina Koller: Get Out of Town
by Richard J Salvucci
If you do Cole Porter, you are in the big league. Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Susannah McCorkle have all been there and done that. Kristina Koller is a relative newcomer--this is her third album--and is, by choice, in illustrious company. Comparisons are invidious, but what do you do? Imitate? Emulate? Or strike out in ...
Dine Doneff: In/Out
by Nenad Georgievski
Composer and bassist Dine Doneff's In/Out is a one-man show and a type of improvisation that seems mystical. Dubbed as a soundscape theatre for double bass and soundscapes, it is full-blown, free-flowing, and intensely narrative, an arc that is established by Doneff's interaction with samples and pre-recorded materials all performed live. Doneff is a ...
Alexis Cole: Sky Blossom/Songs from My Tour of Duty
by Jack Bowers
Alexis Cole is an excellent singer, an opinion endorsed by recent high-profile gigs at Carnegie Hall, Birdland, Jazz at Lincoln Center and with the Boston Pops and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Even so, she is nearly upstaged on Sky Blossom by Scott Arcangel's superlative arrangements (plus one each by Chris Walden and Mike Reifenberg) and the marvelous ...
Yves Léveillé: L’Échelle du Temps
by Troy Dostert
Although he has yet to achieve substantial acclaim beyond his native Canada, Montreal-based pianist Yves Léveillé has made an accomplished series of albums going back to 1999 with Signal Commun, the first of several releases on Effendi Records. Léveillé's music possesses a strong jazz vocabulary, but the pianist also has an abiding classical temperament. A disc ...
Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's
by Mark Corroto
Professionally recorded for Columbia Records, but never released, this live concert from London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is seeing the light of day some fifty years later, as well as marking the centennial celebration of Charles Mingus' birth. The music was never released, not because it was unworthy (it is indeed worthy), but because Mingus along ...
Jan Lundgren: Into the Night
by Phillip Woolever
This excellent album is part of a series of modern jazz projects with a twist, featuring live recordings by many of the German label ACT's top artists, in unique, uncategorized, and often first time formations. The album comes from a 2020 set at the Ystad Festival in Sweden, which homegrown pianist Jan Lundgren founded ...
Daniel Dyonisius: Miles to Go
by Jim Worsley
Indonesia had produced some fine guitarists over the years. Dewa Budjana is high on that list with the records he has under his belt as a leader. Here, Budjana guest stars on the first track of Miles To Go, the debut album by Daniel Dyonisius. The young guitarist comes out blazing with the eight minute plus ...
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