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Jimmy Bruno Trio: Live At Birdland II
by Jim Santella
With guest Scott Hamilton sitting in on half the album, Jimmy Bruno’s session oozes with guitar and bass technique. However, as happens sometimes, the increased technical prowess causes Bruno’s session to lose some of its swing. His guitar pick produces blistering single-note runs that thrill the listener. In doing so, he’s overlooked the need for added ...
Dave Weckl Band: Synergy
by Paula Edelstein
When Dave Weckl decided to have a “band writing day, rehearsal kind of jam session” while touring with his present ensemble, he couldn’t have made a wiser decision. That day ended up yielding the foundation for almost half of the material on Synergy, his latest release on Stretch Records. The band, Brandon Fields on tenor sax, ...
The Jimmy Bruno Trio: Live At Birdland II
by Paula Edelstein
The Jimmy Bruno Trio is joined by Scott Hamilton on Live At Birdland II, the exciting follow up to Bruno's first edition of Live At Birdland. The set, replete with standards and originals ranging from “Reticulation" composed by the guitarist, to the all-time Latin favorite “Poinciana" creates a spontaneous personal statement by the trio. Bruno's ability ...
Susannah McCorkle: From Broken Hearts To Blue Skies
by Jim Santella
From a moody “laugh all your sorrows away" with its late night lounge setup, to “never saw things goin’ so right" with its energetic trumpet and alto saxophone interludes, Susannah McCorkle has put together another eclectic session from the American popular songbook. This is her seventeenth album, following From Broadway To Bebop and From Bessie To ...
Scott Hamilton/Bucky Pizzarelli: The Red Door
by John Sharpe
This wonderfully relaxed, 10-track session, pays tribute to the late tenor giant, Zoot Sims. Seven-string guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli recorded a number of tenor/guitar duos with Sims and hence is uniquely qualified for this sort of encounter. Scott Hamilton, an appointed guardian of the Swing tradition, fits quite comfortably into Zoot's rather large shoes. The repertoire strikes ...
Ed Calle: Sunset Harbor
by John Sharpe
Lovers of Kenny G. and smooth jazz may find Sunset Harbor to be a nice place to visit--I did not. Although tenor saxophonist Ed Calle has worked with some recognizable talents over the years, Gloria Estefan, Bob James, Julio Iglesias, etc., I find nothing distinctive or original in his playing or his compositions. This is standard ...
John Patitucci: Now
by Douglas Payne
Bassist John Patitucci ascended to deserved prominence as a significant catalyst in Chick Corea's Elektrik/Akoustic bands (1986-93). But despite consistently excellent work elsewhere since then, Patitucci's solo career (which began with his eponymous 1987 debut on GRP) has not yet produced much that's memorable - until Now. Here, the bassist shares a perfect telepathy with his ...
Gene Harris & The Philip Morris Superstars: Live
by Ed Kopp
If aliens landed in my front yard tomorrow and demanded to hear a quintessential jazz recording, I might offer them Live. This is the sort of smooth mainstream effort that originally turned me on to jazz. The music is hardly cutting-edge, but it's accessible, swinging, and thoroughly drenched in the blues. Live was recorded ...
Susannah McCorkle: From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies
by Jack Bowers
Susannah McCorkle, who has been devoting her albums of late to the works of specific composers (Gershwin, Porter, Berlin), broadens the horizon on her 17th recording, exploring the many facets of love, happiness and heartbreak through the music and lyrics of writers as disparate as Strayhorn/Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, David Shire/Richard ...
The Christian Jacob Trio: Time Lines
by Jim Santella
When he became music director for Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau band in 1990, pianist Christian Jacob was just taking the next logical step on his musical journey. The 40-year-old pianist was born in Lorraine, France and studied classical piano. His first introduction to jazz came through the jazz “tinge" contained in music by Claude Debussy, ...
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