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Tierney Sutton: American Road
by Dan Bilawsky
While Tierney Sutton's oeuvre is, essentially, a survey of American music in all of its glory, the shades of red, white and blue that pop up on American Road are far more vivid than any that have appeared in her work before. Sutton and her musical soul mates, who've been with her for nearly two decades, ...
The Tierney Sutton Band: American Road
by C. Michael Bailey
The Tierney Sutton BandAmerican RoadBFM Jazz2011 Solidly innovative and a forward-thinker in jazz vocals arena over the past 15 years, Tierney Sutton has constantly looked backwards while forging a future path that has influenced the likes of Laurie Antonioli and Gretchen Parlato, among many other noted contemporary ...
John Daversa: Junk Wagon:The Big Band Album
by Dan Bilawsky
Constant stimulation is the name of the game on Junk Wagon. Trumpeter/composer John Daversa delivers nine pieces that reflect the hustle and bustle of today's world, without resorting to any big band clichés of yore. Each composition, with the exception of the balladic “Most Of All," is a stylistic hybrid, where scattershot elements ...
Larry Goldings: In My Room
by Dan Bilawsky
Sentimentality gets a raw deal in the eyes of many a jazz fan and journalist. Somewhere along the line, a lot of artists began indulging in overwrought expressions of emotion in an effort to artificially enhance their work with a sense of depth that might not truly exist, but that shouldn't taint the very idea of ...
Bob Ferrel Quartet: Bon Voyage
by Jack Bowers
Rather like a trampoline, trombonist Bob Ferrel’s Bon Voyage is firm around the perimeter, sags in the middle, then rebounds nicely, giving the listener some unexpected kicks along the way. Among them: recording the last two tracks onto wax cylinders (circa 1890) using a vintage 1905 Thomas Edison phonograph. If you’ve ever wondered how J.J. Johnson, ...
