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Article: Album Review

Sylvia Bennett: Smile

Read "Smile" reviewed by Edward Blanco

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 ...

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Article: Interview

Barb Jungr: Smart, Sassy, Sexy

Read "Barb Jungr: Smart, Sassy, Sexy" reviewed by John Eyles

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 ...

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Take Five With Andrea Wolper

Read "Take Five With Andrea Wolper" reviewed by AAJ Staff

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 ...

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Cara Campanelli: So Near

Read "So Near" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Paquito Hechavarria: Frankly

Read "Frankly" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

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 ...

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Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions

Read "Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions" reviewed by Samuel Chell

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like a Bee

Read "Sting Like a Bee" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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, ...

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Article: Album Review

Bud Shank: Fascinating Rhythms

Read "Fascinating Rhythms" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Live: Anything Goes

Read "Anything Goes" reviewed by Edward Blanco

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 ...

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Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like A Bee

Read "Sting Like A Bee" reviewed by Edward Blanco

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, ...


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