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Jimmy Smith: Plays Fats Waller
by Chris M. Slawecki
Fats Waller, whose rollicking contributions have enlivened the American songbook since the 1930s, once wrote, “Well, I really love the organ. I can get so much color from it than the piano that it really sends me." About a generation later, Jimmy Smith fell in love with the Hammond B-3 organ. Here in the ...
Peter Scharli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax: Obrigado Dom Um Romao
by Chris M. Slawecki
Peter Scharli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax Obrigado Dom Um Romao TCB Music 2009 Obrigado Dom Um Romao is both a happy and sad accident. Percussion master Dom Um Romao was friends and played extensively with both Peter Scharli, one of Europe's most inventive composers and trumpeters, and Brazilian ...
Tony Bennett: A Swingin' Christmas: Tony Bennett Featuring the Count Basie Big Band
by Chris M. Slawecki
You'd think that a holiday season dedicated to love and laughter and home and family would be a frequent subject for the comfortable, familiar and warm voice of a singer like Tony Bennett. But A Swingin' Christmas: Tony Bennett Featuring the Count Basie Big Band is only the venerable vocalist's second holiday-themed album, and his first ...
Exploring More Exploratory Ensembles
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jazz, like most every form of music, comes in many different styles and shapes. So it only makes sense that the musicians who create jazz will gather and organize themselves into ensembles of different sizes and shapes, too. These days, musicians and producers can go one step further and collaborate with other musicians and producers that ...
JJ Grey & Mofro: Orange Blossoms
by Chris M. Slawecki
JJ Grey and Mofro's follow-up to their critically and popularly acclaimed 2007 Alligator debut, Country Ghetto, sounds a little less shocking but no less rocking. It feels as if that first release, in retrospect, was a shout designed by songwriter, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Grey to get your attention. Orange Blossoms stretches out into real conversation ...
Paradigm: Melodies for Uncertain Robots
by Chris M. Slawecki
Paradigm's second album roams the free range of progressive jazz-rock fusion to harvest, thresh and bale every kaleidoscopic color and sound. It also clearly reflects the disparate makeup of this electric quintet with the band members hailing from Maine, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and Tennessee; everyone met while studying jazz at the University of Louisville; ...
Various Artists: Remixed4
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's reasonable to wonder if this fourth installment in the series, in which contemporary hip-hop, trance and other electronic music producers remake/remodel classics from the Verve label group catalog, has finally returned one time too often to this same well. But em>Remixed4 keeps things interesting by venturing into tunes by other artists working outside the traditional ...
Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer
by Chris M. Slawecki
This all-star jazz-meets-R&B project, recorded live at the Blue Note in August '07 is orchestrated by vocalist Roseanna Vitro and pianist Kenny Werner who contributes several head-spinning arrangements of familiar blues, rhythm and blues, and not-quite-blues. The album certainly gets an “A" for effort. “I found the writing process fascinating. Some of the tunes were very ...
Paul Carlon Octet: Roots Propaganda
by Chris M. Slawecki
"I am interested in combining all roots music," explains saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator Paul Carlon. “Not necessarily to make a point, but because I love it all. So I'm trying to take these disparate elements and put them into a jazz context." Carlon continues, “That was the idea behind Roots Propaganda. We need some propaganda ...
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded live during “Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," his 2007 two-night stand with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet for Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Marsalis serves as artistic director, Two Men with the Blues is by far the most enjoyable music of 2008. Nelson and Marsalis meet each other halfway between the acoustic country blues ...
