Results for "Chiaroscuro Records"

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 ...

Dick Wellstood 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; Georgia Cabin/Ghost of the Blues; Ain't Misbehavin'; Deed I Do/ Georgia On My Mind/Don't Let Me Bother Me; I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket; Looking At You/You've Been A Good Ole Wagon; Runnin' Wild; So In Love; Everyone Loves My Baby; A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody; Coronet Chop Suey; My Shining Hour. (Total Time: 70:25)

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

Just the Two of Us

By Gene Bertoncini

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Lover Man; How Deep Is the Ocean; Cry Me a River; Gone with the Wind; Spring Is Here; Manha de Carnival; You Stepped out of a Dream; Here's That Rainy Day; Embraceable You; The Shadow of our Smile.

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