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David Lahm: More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell
by Glenn Astarita
More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell signifies pianist/composer David Lahm’s follow up effort to Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell. Once again, Lahm integrates a portion of the folk-rock singer’s body of work into the jazz genre while receiving sturdy and sympathetic support from saxophonists Roger Rosenberg and Vincent Herring along with the estimable trumpeter, Randy Brecker. ...
T.K. Blue: Eyes of the Elders
by James Nichols
Saxophonist and flutist T.K. Blue, the artist formerly known as Talib Kibwe, continues to evolve his own brand of post-bop on Eyes of the Elders, his second release as a leader for Arkadia Jazz. Despite the pretentious title, this album contains some worthy performances by a cadre of jazz veterans and young lions. Though T.K. Blue ...
T.K. Blue: Eyes Of The Elders
by AAJ Staff
When he was the artist known as Talib Qadir Kibwe, T.K. Blue spent a good many years as Randy Weston's musical director, and he performed on some of Weston's now-classic recordings with Melba Liston like The Spirits Of Our Ancestors and Volcano Blues. Previously, Kibwe lived in Paris for eight years after a three-year association with ...
You and I
By Mary Pearson
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lazy Afternoon; The More I See You; Take Five; What Are You Doing the Rest of Your
Life?; * I Am Yours / You Are Mine; Thou Swell; You and I; * In
Your Arms; How Long Has This Been Going On?; My Funny Valentine; * I Can’t Believe;
Over the Rainbow.
Thank You, Joe! – Our Tribute to Joe Henderson
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mamacita; Isfahan; Gazelle; The Kicker; Ask Me Now; Recorda Me; Isotope; Inner Urge;
Granted.
Mary Pearson: You and I
by Dave Hughes
Vocalist Mary Pearson's CD You and I is interesting in that each song is a duet in which she is accompanied by a lone instrument. It may be a piano (Lynne Arriale on four tunes, Fred Hersch on two), a guitar, a bass, or on two tunes, drums. While Pearson doesn't delve into scat singing or ...
Various: Thank You, Joe!
by AAJ Staff
Arkadia has a good thing going for it: tribute albums. Interestingly, Thank You, Joe! is Arkadia's first CD of appreciation extended to a living jazz legend. Previous honorees have included John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Gerry Mulligan.Thank goodness that Arkadia had the insight to honor Henderson. Such a tribute raises the question, however, of ...
Mary Pearson: You and I
by Dave Nathan
When Nashville is mentioned, jazz, especially jazz vocalizing, is not the first thing that comes to mind - - in fact, it's likely to come to mind at all for most. Pearson comes from and works out of the country musical capitol of the world, and has been doing so for some time now. With this ...
Javon Jackson, et al. / Joanne Brackeen: Thank You, Joe! / Popsicle Illusion
by C. Michael Bailey
Several Arkadia discs have made their way to my desk and two releases have finally floated to the top for my attention. Two very fine releases, I might add. Joe Henderson. Continuing their Grammy(r)-nominated Thank You... series, Arkadia serves up a tribute to the very much alive and recording Joe Henderson. Past Thank You... recordings have ...
Mary Pearson: You And I
by AAJ Staff
As Arkadia slowly but surely builds a label, it now adds its first singer, Mary Pearson Mary Pearson. “And who is Mary Pearson Mary Pearson?" non-New Yorkers may ask. Well, Mary Pearson Mary Pearson has been singing below the national radar screen for 20 years or thereabouts, with the likes of Fred Hersch and recently with ...
