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Ray Charles: Genius Loves Company
by Jim Santella
This final recording by the late Ray Charles consists of twelve duets with popular singers who we've come to recognize almost as clearly as the master himself. As he and B.B. King sing “Sinner's Prayer," you can feel the house rockin'. Both veteran artists relate a convincing plea for forgiveness over what they may have done ...
Various Artists: The Colors Of Latin Jazz: Latin Jam!
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by Mark Sabbatini
I can just hear the musicians: “An uninformed review? Oh, that's different." Yeah, but this one's deliberate. Sampler discs are rarely the best way to get acquainted with performers since they tend to feature radio-length songs aimed at the masses. But they're everywhere, usually at bargain prices in an effort to lure ...
Howard Alden/Bucky Pizzarelli: In a Mellow Tone
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by Mitchell Seidel
Good taste never goes out of style and knows no demographic, as this delicate album by two masters of the seven-string demonstrates. The 45-year old Alden and the 77-year old Pizzarelli may be a generation apart, but they are certainly cut from the same cloth. A great example of how their comping and strumming styles mesh ...
Benny Golson: Terminal 1
by Aaron Rogers
Benny Golson's Terminal 1 is a commemorative album to Steven Spielberg's latest film, The Terminal, in which Golson plays himself: a legendary jazz saxophonist from whom Tom Hanks' character is trying to get an autograph. On Terminal 1, 75-year-old hard-bopper Golson looks and plays just as fresh as he did in his younger days with Art ...
Marian McPartland and Lionel Hampton: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Lionel Hampton
by Aaron Rogers
For over twenty years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland has hosted NPR's Piano Jazz, a radio broadcast that showcases some of the most important artists in jazz history. Piano Jazz not only presents McPartland's piano playing along with the music of jazz greats like Bill Evans and Dizzy Gillespie, but it also provides a forum for her ...
Quincy Jones And Bill Cosby: The Original Jam Sessions 1969
by Mark Sabbatini
The phrase “your opinion of this album may depend on what you think of TV theme music" is generally not meant as praise. But this “long-lost" collection of funk-jazz written by Jones and Cosby bears no resemblance to the syrupy soundtracks of modern shows like “The West Wing" and “Law And Order." Instead it ...
Charlie Byrd: Byrd & Brazil
by John Kelman
Once again Concord Records has reissued two simpatico dates as a budget two-CD collection, this time two live sets by guitarist Charlie Byrd, originally issued as '80's Sugarloaf Suite and '82's Brazilville. Both sets are indicative of Byrd's lightweight and low-key approach to Brazilian music, which he discovered while in his mid-30s and dedicated much of ...
Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen: Heavy Juice
by John Kelman
Strangely enough, recordings pairing tenor players are not unusual. Sonny Rollins did it with John Coltrane on Tenor Madness ; more recently Joe Lovano with Joshua Redman on Tenor Legacy ; even Chris Potter did it with Joe Lovano on a few tracks on Vertigo. Why this particular variation of saxophone is more conducive to teaming ...
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Blakey's Beat
by John Kelman
Art Blakey may never have strayed far from the music that captured his spirit in his youth, namely the more soulful and simple-themed variation on bebop called hard bop, but throughout the course of his fifty-plus year career, he was a constant, most notably with his Jazz Messengers band, starting in '53 and continuing until literally ...
Karrin Allyson: Wild For You
by Jim Santella
The change in Karrin Allyson’s performance is significant; but that doesn’t alter the unique vocal presence through which we’ve come to know her and to appreciate for a decade and a half. In Wild For You , we still have the expressive treatment of lyrics, the delicate aura that combines scat singing with meaningful communication, and ...
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