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Sylvia Bennett: Smile
by Edward Blanco
The Great American Songbook is full of love songs that have stood the test of time through countless interpretations by the greatest singers in the world. In searching for new ways to recast such standards--without serving up the same old tunes in the same worn out fashion--Sylvia Bennett takes her turn at voicing many of these ...
Barb Jungr: Smart, Sassy, Sexy
by John Eyles
Singer Barb Jungr is on a roll at present. In March 2009 she and accompanist Simon Wallace played for the first time at Café Carlyle, in New York City, presenting a show entitled The Men I Love" which featured songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren and Neil Diamond. The ...
Take Five With Andrea Wolper
by AAJ Staff
Meet Andrea Wolper: Jazz / improvising vocalist and songwriter. Leads her own groups performing her arrangements of originals, standards, and music from other sources. Also part of TranceFormation with Connie Crothers and Ken Filiano, and Objects in Mirror, with Adam Caine, Fung Chern Hwei, and Ken Yamazaki. Instrument(s):Voice.Your sound and ...
Cara Campanelli: So Near
by Dan Bilawsky
Harry Nilsson said that one is the loneliest number" and another common phrase is that two's company and three's a crowd. Keeping this in mind, vocalist Cara Campanelli wisely chose the middle road and seems right at home crafting duo readings of standard gems from an era long gone. Campanelli is a New York native who ...
Paquito Hechavarria: Frankly
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Francisco Paquito" Hechavarría might be best known for his work on Gloria Estefan's Conga," but that record barely scratches the surface in showing what he's capable of playing. Smoking tumbao-based patterns seem to be embedded in his musical DNA: Hechavarría grew up in pre-Castro Cuba and soaked up the rhythms and sounds of his native ...
Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions
by Samuel Chell
Artie ShawClassic Bluebird and Victor SessionsMosaic Records2009Shortly after its critically acclaimed box set comprising clarinetist Benny Goodman's essential recordings-- The Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (2009), which was released to coincide with the centenary of the King of Swing"--Mosaic Records has done it again. The Classic ...
Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like a Bee
by Jack Bowers
Mike Longo, who studied piano with Oscar Peterson and served for a number of years as Dizzy Gillespie's pianist and music director, brings that experience and more to Sting Like a Bee, the follow-up to his well-received trio session from 2007, Float Like a Butterfly (Consolidated Artists Productions). While there's a different backup crew this time, ...
Bud Shank: Fascinating Rhythms
by Jack Bowers
In the Wild West, when a cowboy passed away while doing his job, whether herding cattle, branding a steer or engaging in a gunfight, the popular saying was that he died with his boots on." The adage applies as well to renowned alto saxophonist Bud Shank, who recorded what was to be his final album, Fascinating ...
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Live: Anything Goes
by Edward Blanco
Though trumpet legend Herb Alpert and wife Lani Hall have been together for more than three decades, it's hard to believe that Anything Goes is their very first album together. A musician and entrepreneur, Alpert is best known for his work in the 1960s with his Tijuana Brass, five number one hits, eight Grammy Awards and ...
Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like A Bee
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Mike Longo has a couple of things in common with legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali: first, they both employed the same phrase throughout their careers--"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--and second,, they both deliver quite a punch, Ali with his fists and Longo on the keys. Sting Like a Bee--dedicated to Longo's father, ...


