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The Johnny Varro Swing Seven: The Johnny Varro Swing Seven: Swingin' on 57th Street
by Mike Neely
The Johnny Varro Swing Seven: Swingin’ on West 57th Street is a bright, upbeat septet recording that presents a band with distinctive soloists and a superb rhythm section. Johnny Varro on piano, Michael Moore on bass, and Joe Ascione on drums, are about as good a rhythm section as there exists in traditional jazz, precise and ...
The International All-Star Band: A Portrait of Duke
by Mike Neely
A Portrait of Duke catches the spirit of the great master, Mr. Ellington. No small accomplishment. This is a band with a lively rhythm section, first-rate soloists, and horn/reed players who make music soulfully together. This is a truly international band with members from the United States, the Netherlands (3), Belgium, Germany, and Australia. The extraordinary ...
Tommy Newsom Sextet: Friendly Fire
by Mike Neely
You may know Tommy Newsom as the congenial big band sidekick on the Johnny Carson Show. But you may not know that he plays a bluesy, big-assed saxophone with intelligence, and style. On Friendly Fire he’s put together a quintet of pros who swing with something to say. Included is trombonist Bob Enevoldsen. Anyone who’s listened ...
Bucky Pizzarelli: One Morning in May
by Mike Neely
One Morning in May is Bucky Pizzarelli?s second exquisite solo guitar outing for Arbors Records. This disc follows April Kisses, reviewed in AAJ?s August 2000 general review listing (see archives). Both recordings focus on standards, older standards, mostly from the 1920s to the1940s. These two CDs belong among the essential recordings of jazz guitar. On One ...
Ruby Braff: Music For The Still Of The Night
by Mike Neely
Ruby Braff has been so good for so long that it’s easy to take him for granted. He suffers from what a friend of mine calls the “Zoot Sims Syndrome" a situation in which another great release is not given its due because what did you expect? Well, Ruby Braff keeps cranking them out: creative performances ...
Kenny Davern & The Eddie Condon All Stars: Kenny Davern: A Night with Eddie Condon
by Mike Neely
Kenny Davern: A Night with Eddie Condon presents a live performance that really sounds like a live performance, and that’s a rarity. The music is all around you like you’re listening from a table a few feet from the stage: you can hear the stage banter, the audience around you, and the cymbals tinging right above ...
Dan Barrett: Melody in Swing
by Mike Neely
In my neighborhood, young girls swoon to the sound of Dan Barrett's trombone, and their boyfriends get romantic. Melody in Swing will also get your parents up for a round of slow dancing in the living room. Barrett is one of the great jazz stylists of the trombone, and on this recording he does his best ...
Maurice Hines: I've Never Been in Love Before
by Dave Nathan
Maurice Hines is the well-known dancer and choreographer having worked in such Great White Way musicals as Eubie. This album is his debut as a singer, using only his first name. Maurice has a light voice, somewhere in between Nat King Cole and Jimmy Scott with a nod toward Leon Thomas thrown in from time to ...
Andy Fielding: Playing For Keeps
by Mike Neely
Pianist Andy Fielding is a bit of a romantic with extraordinary technique and deep roots in many of the traditional resources of jazz. He brings to the music an intimate awareness of ragtime, stride, and gospel music in addition to a creative imagination that has even broader horizons. Playing For Keeps is a recent Arbors release, ...
Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band: Fletcher Henderson's Unrecorded Arrangements for Benny Goodman
by Jack Bowers
This marvelous new recording by clarinetist Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band from Toulouse, France, is akin to finding buried treasure — and it’s no wonder, as these sparkling arrangements by Fletcher Henderson were “buried” for many years in collections donated by Benny Goodman to the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and the ...
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