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Jackie Allen: Tangled
by Jim Santella
While it's clearly a pop album, Tangled has a light, jazzy feel. John Moulder's smooth jazz guitar, Steve Eisen's gentle flute and several keyboards back up Jackie Allen's lovely voice with an easy-to-like ambience. Allen delivers an expressive, convincing session. The singer uses her voice, whispery and coated with smooth silk, to interpret this program with ...
Andrew Hill: Timelines
by Matthew Miller
March was a month to celebrate. It saw the release of Andrew Hill's new album, Time Lines (for his alma mater, Blue Note), and found him leading a powerhouse quintet for four magical nights at Birdland. The visionary's legions of fans gave him a joyous reception in concert, and there is no end of buzz around ...
Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4
by Elliott Simon
Indigo4 is one enjoyable morsel drawn from what has become a very broad Italian jazz landscape. Trombonist Gianluca Petrella, who routinely plays with trumpeter Enrico Rava's internationally known band, has assembled a quartet that includes bassist Paolino Dalla Porta, the young and sizzling drummer Fabio Accardi, reedman Francesco Bearzatti, and the judicious use of what amounts ...
Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn?
by Ollie Bivens
With the reissue of Where Is Brooklyn?, Blue Note completes a trilogy of Don Cherry releases (also including Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers) which up to now had only been available on CD in a limited edition Mosaic box set. Cherry initially came into wide prominence in jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's landmark ...
Ignacio Berroa: Codes
by Jim Santella
Ignacio Berroa spreads contemporary Latin jazz before him everywhere he goes. It's the music of Dizzy Gillespie, the music of Mario Bauza, and the music of Gonzalo Rubalcaba, David Sánchez, Ed Simon, John Patitucci, and the other members of Berroa's band. Along with a vibrant Latin jazz rhythm and accented melodies, the ensemble adds ...
Herbie Hancock: Great Sessions
by Chris May
Herbie Hancock's music has been in a continuous state of flux since he first started recording in the early 1960s, yet it's possible to identify four distinct phases in his development: the more or less conventional, if more than usually distinctive, hard bop of the very early days; the restlessly exploratory acoustic music made with the ...
Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4
by Chris M. Slawecki
This early favorite among contenders for best debut of 2006 comes from a young Italian composer and trombone player who says, “I always appreciated the vanguards in our musical world, especially the American one at the end of the '60s and for a lot of the '70s. Important influences include Ornette Coleman, the Sun Ra visionary ...
Hank Mobley: Dippin'
by Chris May
Hank Mobley spent most of 1964 banged up for drug offences. The year of the Beatles' US breakthrough, which sounded the final death knell for hard bop as a mainline music of inner city youth, happened beyond Mobley's eyes and ears. Is it too fanciful to suppose he barely noticed it happening? Probably yes. But it ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Nic Jones
Make no mistake--this is a tribute not only to Wes Montgomery, but also the resilience of human creativity. While this might smack of hyperbole, it should be remembered that Martino completely forgot how to play the guitar some 26 years ago as a result of brain surgery, and if diligence and application can supply the kind ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Chris May
The safest course of action on encountering a tribute album is usually to run like hell in the opposite direction. Which is why this beautiful album stayed unplayed for a couple of weeks before finally, thank God, finding the deck. This recording is just lovely. If Wes Montgomery was alive today, this is almost certainly what ...
