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Out Of The Shadows
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Lush Life; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Passion Flower; Take The
A Train; Strange Feeling; Day Dream; Chelsea Bridge; Multi Colored
Blue; Something To Live For; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Tonk;
Johnny Come Lately; In A Blue Summer Garden; Tonk (Pianistically
Allied); Drawing Room Blues; Tonk.
CD2: Something To Live For; Grievin’; Johnny Come Lately; Take The A
Train; Mid-Riff; My Little Brown Book; Day Dream; Bugle Breaks;
Metronome All Out; I Don’t Mind; After All; Kissin’ Bug; Just A-
Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Clementine; Paradise; Passion Flower; Satin
Doll; Newport Up; What Else Can You Do With A Drum; Blood Count.
CD3: Take The A Train; Chelsea Bridge; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’;
Lush Life; Isfahan; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Satin Doll; Take The
A Train; Johnny Come Lately; Satin Doll; Chelsea Bridge; Take The A
Train.
CD4: Everything Is Copasetic; Hip; Blue House; Hipper-Bug; Pretty
Girl; Anatomy Of A Murder; Swing Dance; Feet On The Beat; Matinee; Jo;
Flame Indigo; Fol-De-Rol-Rol; Tiffany; Orson; Lozit; Pomegranate.
CD5: The Intimacy Of The Blues; Paris Blues; The Star-Crossed Lovers;
Chelsea Bridge; Portrait Of A Silk Thread; Day Dream; Lotus Blossom;
Blood Count; Upper Manhattan Medical Group; Chelsea Bridge/Star-
Crossed Lovers/Day Dream; Passion Flower; Three And Six.
CD6: No One Knows; Lotus Blossom; Ballad For Very Tired And Very Sad
Lotus Eaters; Rain Check; Snibor; Noir Bleu; The Star-Crossed Lovers;
Something To Live For; After All; Multi Colored Blue; Mid-Riff; A
Flower Is A Lovesome Thing.
CD7: Smada; Depk; Jazz Festival Jazz; Intimacy Of The Blues; All Day
Long; Balcony Serenade; Snibor; Strange Feeling; Kissin’ Bug; Newport
Up; My Little Brown Book; Mid-Riff; I’m Checking Out, Goom Bye; Rain
Check.
DVD: Take The A Train; Mid-Riff; Chelsea Bridge; Passion Flower; Satin
Doll; Medley: Lush Life/Solitude; Take The A Train; Satin Doll; Take
The A Train.
Ho-Ho-Ho Jazz
Guitarist Nate Najar brought his jazz holiday show to Sarasota on Saturday evening with special guest Harry Allen. The South County Jazz Club event at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center blended jazz treatments of holiday material with some jazz classics. The event marked the club's first opportunity to hear trumpeter James Suggs, an upstate New York ...
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder
by Jack Bowers
For the mathematically challenged, Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six equals eleven. In other words, it's Thompson's working quintet, the Marble City Five, amplified by half a dozen horns. On its debut recording, the Knoxville, TN-based ensemble performs music by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk and--brace yourself--country singer Dolly Parton. In fact, Parton's “Little Sparrow," the ...
South Africa at the South Bank
by Duncan Heining
The Dedication Orchestra and Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya The South Bank Centre London Jazz Festival November 15, 2014 The London Jazz Festival is now in its twenty-second year. It's a vast, sprawling event and its venues criss-cross a city that never quite seems to end, whilst its musical styles span ...
The Nash Second Anniversary in Phoenix
by Patricia Myers
The Nash Second Anniversary The Nash/Private Home Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona October 31, November 1-2, 2014 There's something about the way Lewis Nash plays drums. No, there's everything about the way he plays drums--selectively, tastefully, underplaying vs. bombastic; in a word, elegantly. Nash's classy combination of swing and sophistication was abundantly evident during ...
Cat Conner: Cat House
by Jack Bowers
On Cat House, the follow-up to her superb debut album, Cat Tales, California-based vocalist Cat Conner shows again that she has the astuteness and chops to leave many other contemporary jazz vocalists floundering in her wake and gasping for air. This time around, Conner has chosen a baker's dozen of what she calls her “lucky tunes," ...
Panel of National Jazz Experts and Legends Announce Prestigious 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency Artist Participants!
The Kimmel Center’s commitment to Jazz continues as their Jazz Residency winners are announced! The five-person panel, representing some of the nation’s most influential jazz practitioners and innovators—including Kennedy Center Director of Jazz Programming Kevin Struthers, SF Jazz Center Artistic Producer Lilly Schwartz, Jazz at Lincoln Center Vice President of Education Todd Stoll—culled through over 25 ...
Linda Cole and Joshua Bowlus: What a Wonderful World
by C. Michael Bailey
Yes...that Cole Family. The same talent pool that gave us Nat King Cole and Freddy Cole has also given us Linda Cole (a daughter of the brothers Cole's cousin). Linda Cole teams with pianist/arranger Joshua Bowlus and his quartet for a breezy stroll through 13 pieces from the Cole Family songbook and beyond. Globally, Bowlus supplies ...
La Voz de Tres at Tempe Center for the Arts
by Patricia Myers
La Voz de Tres Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe, Arizona September 27, 2014 Chilean-born Natalie Bernal's vocal sound was both illuminatively angelic and deeply sensual, a transfixing contrast for the New York-based trio La Voz de Tres. Her colleagues, Mike Eckroth on piano-vocals and Jason Ennis on seven-string guitar-vocals, make ...
Bob Lark and His Alumni Big Band: Sweet Return
by Jack Bowers
As was the case two years ago (2012) with its first album, Reunion, trumpeter Bob Lark's Alumni Big Band on Sweet Return is comprised of musicians he has supervised in various groups during a long and eminent career that embodies more than twenty years as director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. Even so, ...
