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Matt Jorgensen + 451: Another Morning
by Dan McClenaghan
Matt Jorgensen + 451 has created a distinctive music, a free flying jazz sound with a 1960s rock sensibility, bursting with enormous chops. It's a mix of Ryan Burns' often out there, Jimi Hendix-ian keyboard work (wailing on Fender Rhodes, organ and Moog ), Mark Tayor's bite-of-lime saxophone tang, Jorgensen's multi-layered percussion complexities and Phil Sparks' ...
Virginia Mayhew Septet: A Simple Thank You
by Dan McClenaghan
This is about the coolest cover art you'll ever see on a CD: Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew in blue tones, as bald as an egg (cancer treatments), in partial profile, eyes closed, in an apparent state of repose. She looks like a sleek android discovered in arctic ice. Cool as hell.The music on Mayhew's fifth ...
Dorothy Doring: Southern Exposure
by Dan McClenaghan
Minnesota-based vocalist Dorothy Doring followed the Mississippi River from her native Minnesota down to New Orleans to record her CD Southern Exposure.The set opens with the time-tested Consuelo Velasques tune, “Besame Mucho." It's a song that's been covered by, seemingly, everybody: The Beatles, Carmen McCrae, Frank Sinatra, Nat “King" Cole and so on. So ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Dan McClenaghan
For those of us who weren't paying attention earlier, Nik Bartsch's Ronin first burst on the scene with its 2007 ECM Records debut, Stoa. But the Swiss composer-pianist had, in fact, been building a just-beneath-the-radar discography for several years on his own Ronin Rhythm Records.Which brings us to Holon, Bartsch's second ECM set, one ...
Leigh Sutherlin: Sandbar
by Dan McClenaghan
You meet a father and son at a garage sale, checking out some CDs. You get to talking music. The man says his wife is a jazz artist with a debut recording on the way. A CD release show is in the works. You accept an invite, hoping to hear some passable sounds. You show up ...
Thomas Marriott: Crazy: The Music of Willie Nelson
by Dan McClenaghan
If you want to put your music into compartments, it might be hard to cozy up to a “jazz" CD getting tight with the tunes of “country" icon Willie Nelson. But smart music lovers throw the labels down the man hole, and maybe remember that none other than Miles Davis counted himself a Nelson fan--check out ...
Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
The surprise for the folks who haven't followed the quarter century span of Keith Jarrett's Standard Trio--those who jumped onboard with, say, Live at the Blue Note (ECM, 1995), or Up For It (ECM, 2003)--will be just how good these guys were right from the very start. Things just seemed to click into place on their ...
The Willie Williams Trio: Comet Ride
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening and title track of Willie Williams' Comet Ride really does blaze out of the speakers like visitor from the outer reaches of the solar system. Williams' searing tenor wails; trailing a fiery tail of sax, splashing cymbals and loping bass lines. And though the trio configuration--sax/bass/drums, without a chording instrument--suggests a free outing, the ...
Frank Macchia with The Prague Orchestra: Landscapes
by Dan McClenaghan
Listening to the opening notes on Frank Macchia's Landscapes, one can't help but hear a Stan Getz vibe blowing into play. It's not the Getz of the bossa nova sounds with Antonio Carlos Jobim, or his boppish mainstream work, but rather the Stan Getz of Focus (Verve Records, 1961), with the tenor saxophonist improvising over a ...
Pamela Hines Trio: Return
by Dan McClenaghan
You could call Pamela Hines a mainstream pianist, but that word “mainstream" suggests a limiting category and might draw a rather static map and restrict your expectations. What's the old rule of semantics? The map is not the territory. Or how about: the category is not the sound.While Hines, on this (mostly) trio outing, ...
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