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Rosemary Clooney: A Seventieth Birthday Celebration
by Robert Spencer
Rosemary Clooney's career spans the decades, and you can see it on this disc: from “It's Only a Paper Moon" and “Ol' Man River" to James Taylor's “Secret of Life." Other tracks include Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning," Gershwin's “(Our) Love is Here to Stay" and “Long Ago and Far Away," Irving Berlin's ...
Rosemary Clooney: A Seventieth Birthday Celebration
by Jack Bowers
Mixed emotions - on the one hand, surprise that Rosemary Clooney has reached the age of 70; on the other, gratitude that she remains at 70 one of our finest interpreters of American popular song. There aren't many who are in Rosie's league (and one less since Sinatra's passing). Mel Tormé is still on the scene, ...
Kenny Burrell: Love Is The Answer
by Jim Santella
Kenny Burrell wrote the music and lyrics for this vocal album, which places the 32-member Boys Choir of Harlem in the spotlight along with jazz accompaniment from Burrell's easy-to-recognize-anywhere guitar and a rhythm team of drummer Ben Riley and bassist Ray Drummond. Pianist James Williams and electric bassist Greg Ryan also lend support on specific tracks. ...
Jesse Davis: First Insight
by Jim Santella
Although his style runs along hard bop lines, alto saxophonist Jesse Davis' sixth album as a leader is a straight-ahead modern mainstream album that emphasizes his lyricism and familiar ease with a melody. In Robert Altman's film Kansas City, Davis performed in his own intense style, displaying the edginess in his saxophone tone and the speed ...
The Dave Weckl Band: Rhythm of the Soul
by Robert Spencer
One interesting fact about the Dave Weckl Band's Rhythm of the Soul is that it will soon be available in five different music-minus-one play-along formats: one each for drummers, keyboardists, bassists, guitarists and saxophonists. So if you want to strike a monster groove like the Davemeister himself, now's your chance. Rhythm of the Soul is muscular ...
Susannah McCorkle: Someone To Watch Over Me
by John Sharpe
Having already tackled the works of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer, McCorkle turns her attention to another great American composer, George Gershwin. One can't argue with the song selection, they are all classic standards, but this time out Susannah seems less than inspired. Perhaps the formula is wearing thin. Her voice, which has acquired ...
Susannah McCorkle: Someone to Watch Over Me
by Jack Bowers
Having reviewed favorably Susannah McCorkle's seventh Concord recording, in which she ably interpreted more than a dozen of the wonderful songs of Irving Berlin, I can do no less for No. 8, an earnest tribute to the music of the immortal George Gershwin. Simply put, McCorkle is a singer who leaves scant room for complaint. Although ...
Jesse Davis: First Insight
by Jack Bowers
Jesse Davis, one of the country's finest post-Cannonball boppers, plays with splendid precision on First Insight, all of whose nine compositions he wrote - but I can remember his having played with more intensity on other occasions (High Standards, for example, or From Within). While there is warmth peeking through here from time to time, the ...
Kenny Burrell: Love Is the Answer
by Jack Bowers
This is lovely music that conveys a lovely theme of peace, tolerance, understanding and self-reliance. Although it draws on Jazz for inspiration, and several Jazz musicians are involved including composer/guitarist Burrell, it's not really Jazz, nor is it classical, blues or gospel, but rather a combination of those elements and others woven together to make up ...
Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!: The Art of the Chart
by Jack Bowers
From time to time, drummer Louie Bellson releases an album with a “theme" (Their Time Was the Greatest, dedicated to big-band drummers; Air Mail Special, to celebrated bandleaders, for example). This time around, with Art of the Chart, he has chosen to salute some of the world's finest arrangers. A wise choice, as charts are the ...
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