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Poncho Sanchez: Freedom Sound
by Jim Santella
Performing, for the most part, classic tunes from the Jazz Crusaders' archives, Poncho Sanchez' Latin Jazz ensemble offers a mellow session with a little salsa on the side. Guests Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder work together on only three tracks, and they blend quite well with the Sanchez horn section; however, all the horn players seem ...
Dave McKenna: Christmas Ivory
by Jim Santella
Widely respected for his clean, animated bass lines and fluid, swinging right hand melodies, Dave McKenna has put together an hour of solo piano work for the Christmas season. All alone, with the microphones adjusted to further define right and left hands, McKenna provides the listener with a pleasant respite from days of weary holiday shopping. ...
Scott Hamilton: Christmas Love Song
by Jim Santella
The artwork on both covers of Scott Hamilton's Christmas album with strings offers the very same message that the music does. The front cover contains the image of a Christmas tree ornament in front of an evergreen tree, and the glass sphere contains the reflection of two full champagne glasses. The back cover depicts an urban ...
Poncho Sanchez: Freedom Sound
by Douglas Payne
Pleasant, competent and earnest Latin jazz, notable as a return to serious playing for Jazz Crusaders Wilton Felder (tenor) and Wayne Henderson (trombone)--but little else. In Freedom Sound, conga man Pancho Sanchez has structured a sort of seq uel to the Jazz Crusaders' excellent 1965 Latin jam, Chili Con Soul (Pacific Jazz). But this March 1997 ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Poema Brasileiro
by Dave Hughes
My favorite among a crop of fine recent Brazilian music releases is a CD that is not by a Brazilian, but by a Belgian - harmonica wiz and vibraphonist Hendrik Meurkens. He gets plenty of help from guests composer / keyboardist / vocalist Ivan Lins, trumpeter Claudio Roditi, guitarist Romero Lubambo, drummer Teo Lima, and others. ...
The Heath Brothers: As We Were Saying...
by AAJ Staff
If you wanted to suck, the Philadelphia jazz scene of the 1940s and '50s wasn't the place to do it. The competition was intensely fierce, and with cats like John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Jimmy Smith and Benny Golson running around (when they weren't moving to nearby New York), it was generally understood that an improvisor had ...
Marian McPartland With Strings: Silent Pool
by Douglas Payne
Simply gorgeous. This beautiful, if not altogether outstanding, piano trio-and-orchestra recording is a natural for the romantic pianist Marian McPartland. Heroes like Bill Evans, George Shearing, Nat King Cole and Ahmad Jamal have all recorded with similar success in these situations – and many probably already know the mastery of Dave Grusin and Lalo Schifrin in ...
The Heath Brothers: As We Were Saying...
by Douglas Payne
This friendly, swinging session is Jimmy, Percy and and Albert “Tootie" Heath’s first together since 1983’s Brothers and Others on Antilles. On their own, these guys have logged memorable time with the greatest names in jazz – from Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker to Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson and, in Percy’s case, The Modern ...
Randy Brecker: Into The Sun
by Douglas Payne
Where Michael Brecker has crafted his own sound (and cultivated significant influence), brother Randy has established his own style. It’s a style not terribly dissimilar to the old Brecker Brothers sound of the seventies. On both trumpet and flugelhorn, Randy is agreeable and maybe even accomplished at cool, warm or hot styles in bop, fusion – ...
Chris Potter: Unspoken
by Robert Spencer
Twenty-seven year old reed man Chris Potter made a big splash on his 1992 debut as a leader for Criss Cross. He showed remarkable promise not only in tenor sax work, but also on alto, soprano, bass clarinet and alto flute. On this one he sticks to tenor and soprano, but his playing is no less ...
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