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Harvey Mason: Chameleon
by Jeff Winbush
When you've been making music as long as Harvey Mason has as a solo artist and manning the drum chair for Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Donald Byrd,and more artists than there is space here to list, you are not only pleasing longtime fans, you're making new converts as well. Some who might ask, “This guy's pretty ...
Helen Sung: Anthem For A New Day
by Dan McClenaghan
There's a bit of the iconoclast in pianist Helen Sung. Her musical journey began in the classical world, and didn't take its rebellious tangent into jazz until her college years, after a chance encounter with a Harry Connick, Jr. concert, in a “bang on the piano" solo interlude. And then there was pianist Tommy Flanagan's solo ...
Dave Koz and Friends: Summer Horns
by Jeff Winbush
The idea of a quartet of top smooth jazz saxophonists gathering for a super-session must have seemed like a great idea to Dave Koz. Why not invite Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair and Richard Elliot to join him for a sax summit? Hang out, play some together, have some laughs. It'll be fun. What could possibly go ...
George Benson: Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole
by Bruce Lindsay
Million-selling, hugely popular and readily recognisable jazz artists are a bit thin on the ground these days. So when one such giant records a tribute to another it's something of an event. George Benson's Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole certainly falls into that category: an album of songs from one of the biggest stars ...
Eliane Elias: I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker
by C. Michael Bailey
It is tempting to consider Chet Baker hommages like Jeff Baker's excellent Baker Sings Chet (OA2, 2004) or John Proulx's sublime Baker's dozen: Remembering Chet Baker (MAXJAZZ, 2009) superior to the real item. So fractured is our picture of Baker that our full appreciation of him is clouded by his extra-musical proclivities. But it is not ...
Rickie Lee Jones Sings the Most
by C. Michael Bailey
Scotch whiskey is an acquired taste; you must first be introduced and develop a relationship with it before this strong water reveals her charms. The same can be said for the singing of Rickie Lee Jones. A hipster in the late-1970s, Jones grew into a blind sage prophetess, showing how others' music could be experienced differently. ...
NEXT Collective: Cover Art
by Chris M. Slawecki
Cover Art heralds the NEXT Collective: Seven musicians--Logan Richardson (flute and alto saxophone), Walter Smith III (bass clarinet and tenor saxophone), Matthew Stevens (guitar), Gerald Clayton (piano and Fender Rhodes), Kris Bowers (Fender Rhodes), Ben Williams (bass) and Jamire Williams (drums) --whose debut quite capably bears up under the heavy “young lions of jazz" mantle. Bassist ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Mesa, AZ, March 8, 2013
by Patricia Myers
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton MarsalisMesa Arts CenterMesa, AZMarch 8, 2013The 25th anniversary concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis was an homage to the past, sparked by elements of modernism with a mix of standards by Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan and Chick Corea, plus ...
Patricia Barber: Smash
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/pianist Patricia Barber's 25-year career has been brilliantly marked by a complete unwillingness to compromise her approach to music. She exists in that uncharted creative realm where she successfully defies classification as a purveyor of any particular musical movement or genre. These characteristics spotlight Barber's role as an innovator and catalyst for musical evolution, a musician ...
Doug Collette's Best Releases of 2012
by Doug Collette
It's great to be able to pick and choose from an overflowing roster of great titles, then relive the pleasure of discovery from the past twelve months. The Brad Mehldau TrioOdeNonesuch RecordsThe pianist's trio offers its perspective on the world around us by filtering it through its original ...
