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Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble: Celebrations
by Bruce Lindsay
Celebrations, the Heritage Ensemble's second album following Making The Music Our Own (MEII Enterprises, 2006), is subtitled Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble Interprets Festive Melodies From The Hebraic Songbook. The review copy arrived with a polite but serious covering letter rather than the usual hyperbolic press release. The album's closing track is a lecture by bandleader and ...
Justin Janer: Following Signs
by Bruce Lindsay
Following Signs, saxophonist Justin Janer's debut as leader, is an assured recording. Janer leads a tight and disciplined quintet through seven original tunes and a cover of Bob Hilliard and Sammy Fain's “Alice in Wonderland," displaying his craft and individuality as a player and composer. Musical high spots arise from the interplay between ...
Bill Cosby: If You Could Hear It, You'd Smile
by Victor L. Schermer
Bill Cosby is a gentle giant, and not just physically. He is a powerhouse of energy and achievement. He's best known as a standup comedian non pareil. Moreover, his TV shows, such as The Cosby Show, have topped the ratings for many years, and he uses them as a way to promote racial reconciliation and disseminate ...
Justin Janer: Following Signs
by Dan Bilawsky
While people might want to pigeonhole alto saxophonist Justin Janer as a Latin jazz player, Following Signs paints him as a musician and composer with a broad outlook that goes past generic stylistic markers. Janer occupied the lead alto chair when percussionist Bobby Sanabria delivered the goods with the Manhattan School of Music's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra ...
Here's To The Ladies: Barbara Carroll, Gabriele Tranchina and Monica Mancini
by Nick Catalano
I've had a chance to listen to recent CDs that have come in from various chanteuses and the music has been truly rewarding. Barbara Carroll is one of the true legends in jazz and her octogenarian years are being spent keeping an amazingly busy schedule. On Sunday afternoons she holds court at The Algonquin with Jay ...
Daniel Kelly: Emerge
by John Sharpe
For his fourth release as leader, pianist Daniel Kelly fronts a trio of Chris Tarry on electric bass and Jordan Perlson drums. Following the diversification of his fully improvised solo suite Portal (3x9 Records, 2009), and Duets With Ghosts (3x9 Records, 2008), which pitched his electric quartet against samples of field recordings by Alan Lomax and ...
Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited LIVE!!! (feat. Candido)
by Graham L. Flanagan
Led by percussionist Bobby Sanabria, the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra delivers a worthy tribute to one of the greatest AfroCuban jazz recordings ever made: Machito's Kenya. Recorded in 1957, Kenya exists for many as one of the essential albums of its kind. It's absolutely appropriate that, more than half a ...
Kenya Revisited Live!!!
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2009
Track listing: Intro; Frenzy; Congo Mulence; Kenya; Oyeme; Holiday Holiday;
Cannonology; Wild Jungle; Blues A La Machito; Conversation; Theme and
Variations On Tin Tin Deo; Tin Tin Deo; Minor Rama; Tururato.
Kenya Revisited Live !!!
Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2009
Track listing: Intro; Frenzy; Congo Mulence; Kenya; Oyeme; Holiday Holiday;
Cannonology; Wild Jungle; Blues a la Machito; Conversation; Theme and
Variations on Tin Tin Deo; Tin Tin Deo; Minor Rama; Tururato.
MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra and Bobby Sanabria to Honor Maestro Ray Santos: A Life in Latin Music
The recently Grammy nominated Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra directed by Maestro Bobby Sanabria honors another Maestro, the legendary composer, arranger Ray Santos on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the School's John C. Borden Auditorium. That evening, showcased will be music that will span Maestro Santos's entire prolific career. Performed will be ...
