Results for "Chiaroscuro Records"

Jack Wilkins: Reunion

by Bill Donaldson
August 1, 2001

Reunion is just that.And for jazz listeners who missed Jack Wilkins' outstanding 1977 release, Merge, the first time out, or for those who are too young to remember it, Reunion brings back that group for a brief moment in time.It wasn't easy. Schedules conflicted and everyone was busy, but they found a ...

Dick Wellstood: Live at Hanratty's

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2001

Originally a double LP, this CD reissue captures Dick Wellstood in a live performance at Hanratty's, once, but no longer, one of the prime venues to hear jazz piano. Wellstood is in terrific form here. One of the foremost stride pianists, he's in the same league with Luckey Roberts, Willie “The Lion" Smith and James P. ...

Bunch, Pizzarelli & Leonhart: New York Swing

by Mike Neely
May 1, 2001

New York Swing is an exciting live trio recording featuring top-notch musicianship in an inspired performance. This is not “a pretty good recording for a live recording," this is an excellent recording, period. If you are not familiar with pianist John Bunch, this recording will place a new flicker in your musical sky. He is the ...

Milt Hinton & Friends: Old Man Time

by Mike Neely
March 1, 2001

Anyone who listens seriously to jazz has heard Milt Hinton’s solid, earthy bass. The number of early jazz, swing, and swing- influenced recordings Hinton has played on must be in thousands. This grand master of the instrument died this past December after a long, distinguished career. Back in 1990, Chiaroscuro Records released a double CD entitled ...

Mike Jones: Live At Steinway Hall

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2001

Pianist Mike Jones is throwback musician. His music is a vestige of a time when stride and swing piano co-existed in jazz. This record made at Steinway Hall in 1997 is about a man, just one solitary man working through some classic tunes. Played any other way, making this a duo, trio, or quartet record would ...

Dick Wellstood: Dick Wellstood: Live At Hanratty's

by Mike Neely
February 1, 2001

The Chiaroscuro Jazz label has begun the worthy project of re-issuing a series of recordings by the pianist Dick Wellstood. Live At Hanratty’s is an excellent introduction to this much underrated pianist. It is a solo outing, from 1981, digitally re-mastered. Throughout, Wellstood demonstrates why Sidney Bechet recorded with him twice, and also why he was ...

Sean Smith Quartet Live

By Sean Smith

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Pipe Dream; Minor Peace; A Not So Sad Folk Song; Quiet Debacle; Blues For Beans; Secret Ballad/Song Without A Lyric; Take The Bullet Trane; Enigma; Drop Me Off In Harlem. (Total Time: 74:56)

An Evening at Sea

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: There Is no Greater Love; Gone with the Wind; Corcovado; In a Sentimental Mood; Wave; I've Got the World on a String*; My Shining Hour; Oleo

John Eaton Live at Steinway Hall

By John Eaton

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Let's Fall in Love; For You, For Me, Forever More; Willow Weep for Me; That old Black Magic; A Foggy Day; One for My Baby*; Love Walked in; My Shining Hour; S`Wonderful; When the Sun Comes Out; I Got Rhythm; Can't We Be Friends?; Wizard of Oz Medley; Paper Moon; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Oh! Lady Be Good; I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise; Somebody Loves Me

Live at Hanratty's

By Dick Wellstood

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Cha Cha for Charlie; I Wish I Were Twins; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You; Quincy Street Stomp; Barbara Song; How Could I Be Blue?; Medley: Georgia Cabin/Ghost of the Blues; Ain't Misbehavin'; Medley: Deed I Do/Georgia on My Mind/Don't Let It Bother You; I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket; Medley: Looking at You/You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; Runnin' Wild; So in Love; Everybody Loves My Baby; A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; Cornet Chop Suey; My Shining Hour