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Debbie Poryes: A Song in Jazz
by Dan McClenaghan
The notes ring out, and then they're gone, vibrations waning away to silence. Pianist Debbie Poryes--who has taught at the Berkeley Jazzschool in Northern California since 2000; who taught in The Netherlands for the better part of the 1980s; who worked her first regular gig playing five nights a week, from five until midnight, for a ...
Paul Bollenback: Invocation
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Paul Bollenback, who spent sixteen years backing organ great Joey DeFrancesco in concert and on CD, has some serious chops. Reviews of his previous CD release, Brightness of Being (Elephant Dreams, 2005), heaped praises on his technical prowess. On Invocation those chops are in fine form once again--the richly layered harmonies, the fluidly inventive intensity ...
Ben Paterson Trio: Breathing Space
by Dan McClenaghan
If Ben Paterson and his trio had come along in a different time, they might have been tagged by Miles Davis as his backing band. In the mid-fifties, Davis was searching for an Ahmad Jamal sound, and settled in with Red Garland in the piano chair to fill that spot. Buoyant swing with the ability to ...
Melani Skybell: Just a Chase Away
by Dan McClenaghan
Melani Skybell is a classically-trained pianist who always dreamed of singing. Four albums into that dream, she's shown herself to be a superb vocalist possessed of a warm and inviting tone with a bit of sass to it--sort of a Nancy Wilson feline tang.Just a Chase Away showcases not just her voice, but also ...
Bobby Few: Lights and Shadows
by Dan McClenaghan
Count pianist Bobby Few as one of those jazz artists deserving more recognition. Chalk his low profile up to expatriation--he's lived in Paris since 1969. Unless you've followed the career of Albert Ayler--Few played on Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!, 1969)--or soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy (Few was the pianist in Lacy's ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Bacchus
by Dan McClenaghan
You'll often hear jazz artists say that they don't like to call their music “jazz." The word, after all, is a label, and labels confine--if you take them seriously/and or let them. Pianist Satoko Fujii may or may not label her music (it's doubtful), but there are certainly no constraints on the sounds she makes.
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Keith Jarrett's best work is with his Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette--though it probably wouldn't be hard to get an argument favoring his solo concert discs. And his best Standards Trio disc may be My Foolish Heart, though an argument for any of the trio efforts released in the new ...
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology
by Dan McClenaghan
Portology is the third in a series of CDs featuring a fruitful collaboration between alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and saxophonist/composer/arranger Ohad Talmor. With a fifty year-plus career behind him--most of it involving small group work--it's hard to believe that tPortology is alto saxophonist Lee Konitz' first outing fronting a big band. Not that he hasn't played ...
Leslie Pintchik: Quartets
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Leslie Pintchik, an adept interpreter of American Songbook classics and a composer of beautifully melodic tunes, emerged on the jazz scene in 2004 with the trio set So Glad to Be Here (Ambient Records). AAJer John Kelman, in his review of the disc, wrote of her inhabiting a “dangerously occupied middle ground, [with] a trick ...
Dave Tofani Quartet: Nights At The Inn
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Dave Tofani sounds as if he'd fit right in with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, somewhere between Johnny Hodges and Ben Webster. That's the thought on hitting the play button on Nights At The Inn, to hear Tofani and his quartet swing hard into Duke's “Angelica." The band--a working unit that has been doing a regular ...
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