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Shelly Berg: Blackbird
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
It's evident from the first track that Blackbird is a superior trio release, as classy and swinging as they ever get. Seasoned with brilliance and sprinkled with wit, this recording is artfully paced and nicely balanced between ballads and burners--all of which is immediately obvious. What emerges only later, after reaching for the CD again and ...
Soulive: Breakout
by Doug Collette
Soulive Breakout Concord Records 2005 Soulive is nothing if not a young jazz band of the people, playing on the road constantly, interacting with audiences graciously and regularly hosting musicians on stage and on tour. Yet this trio adamantly refuses to release albums that merely reflect its live ...
Tim Ries: The Rolling Stones Project
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although purists might hate to admit it, popular music has always provided fodder for jazz interpretations, ever since the '40s and the Tin Pan Alley favorites that supplied chord structures for the mercurial flights of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Since then, pop hits from the Beatles to Radiohead have become part of the jazz vernacular. ...
Mel Torm: The Classic Concert Live
by George Harris
Back in '82 when this concert was recorded at Carnegie Hall, Mel Tormé was just starting his vocal ascent out of a slump by beginning a long and fruitful musical friendship with pianist George Shearing. Joined with Gerry Mulligan's big band, Tormé is in excellent form as he swings through an enthusiastic set of standards, bebop, ...
Various Artists: The Colors of Latin Jazz
by Woodrow Wilkins
The title of this compilation may be a bit misleading, or at least incomplete. Certainly, the music fits into the Latin jazz category. However, once it starts, The Colors of Latin Jazz '- Soul Cookin' sounds like a smorgasbord of sounds one might expect at an African-American or Hispanic family barbecue. This collection of party music ...
Curtis Stigers: I Think It's Going to Rain Today
by Dan McClenaghan
Singing with a relaxed, everyman voice--Randy Newman-esque, with some Dr. John shadings--Curtis Stigers has come up with a dandy set with I Think It's Going To Rain Today. These are well-crafted interpretations of some very well-chosen recent pop songs, rather than the basic American Songbook stuff. Stigers covers blues great Willie Dixon's “My Babe"; Arthur Cradup's ...
Curtis Stigers: I Think It's Going to Rain Today
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Some singers have it, but still more don't. On I Think It's Going to Rain Today, Curtis Stigers offers living proof that he clearly has it, crossing genres and performing songs by the likes of Randy Newman, Mose Allison, Willie Nelson, Sting, Tom Waits, and Willie Dixon, in addition to several original compositions. By doing so, ...
Gary Burton: Next Generation
by Robert R. Calder
Cheap press release stuff first: guitarist Julian Lage (rhymes with French plage) is some years short of twenty-one; and barring Burton, the other group members look even younger. But seriously, he's a stunning musician: hear his empathic interaction with Burton toward the end of Neselovskyi's “Prelude for Vibes."There's a plethora of such details throughout, ...
Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith: Legacy
by Ollie Bivens
Released one week after the sudden death of Jimmy Smith on February 8, the new album by organist Joey DeFrancesco was the last recording featuring Smith, the man who revolutionized the Hammond B-3 by creatively incorporating it into the jazz idiom. First playing the organ at age four and performing playing gigs at ten with Richard ...
Marian McPartland & Friends: 85 Candles - Live in New York
by Samuel Chell
As might be expected, this is a quite uneven collection, capturing the festive occasion that was Marian McPartland's 85th birthday party. There are no truly “low" points, but a few are inessential. Norah Jones reprises Hoagy Carmichael's “The Nearness of You," the single standard from her gold record “Come Away with Me" (Karrin Allyson, despite having ...
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