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Nordic Connect: Flurry
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen's profile has risen on her featured soloist work with the Maria Schneider Orchestra. She has her own career as a leader--her At Sea (ArtistShare, '06) garnered several glowing reviews on this website. Her Nordic Connect outing, Flurry should lift that profile to the highest level.Jensen has teamed with her sister, alto ...
The Fred Hess Band: In the Grotto
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening cut on The Fred Hess Band's In the Grotto, “Simple Steps," is a curious mix of whimsy and menace, stunning technical virtuosity and free form good times, a malleable weave of the eloquent and the intricate in his solos as he blows between the tight ensemble sections, all within the saxophonist's loose-jointed compositions. It's ...
Frank Vignola: Vignola Plays Gershwin
by Dan McClenaghan
"I like a Gershwin tune," Frank Sinatra sings on the Burton Reed/Ralph Freed classic, “How About You." Guitarist Frank Vignola apparently loves a Gershwin tune, passionately.Vignola--with twelve CDs as a leader under his belt--is a versatile musician who sites an array of influences: Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Christian. On ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Fujin Raijin
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Satoko Fujii has put together another ensemble. There's nothing new in that; it seems she and/or her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, form a new group or two every year, just to keep things fresh. With the Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble, the mercurial Japanese-born pianist/composer takes off on yet another tangent--an exploration of Japanese folk music.
Phil Wilson's Panamerican All-Stars: Celebrates the Music of Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim
by Dan McClenaghan
Bossa nova music has a cool, light feeling, with delicate melodies drifting on gentle rhythms. It floated out of Brazil in the 1960s, spearheaded by Joao Gilberto, Vinicius de Moreas and, of course, Antonio Carlos “Tom" Jobim. The music was popularized in the United States in the 1960s via albums that teamed Jobim with saxophonist Stan ...
Holly Hofmann / Mike Wofford: Live at Athenaeum Jazz, Volume 2
by Dan McClenaghan
San Diego isn't known as a jazz town in the same way New York or Chicago are, but this city in the southwest corner of the country has its fair share of fine venues for the music, and boasts some first rate artists as well.One of the best places to hear San Diego jazz ...
Paster/Ryan/Hall: Invisible Horizon
by Dan McClenaghan
They say “it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." If that's so, then Invisible Horizon must mean a whole lot, 'cause it swings mightily on its opener, “Sweet and Lovely," a standard much-covered by none other than Thelonious Monk; and covered here by pianist Bennett Paster, bassist Gregory Ryan and drummer Keith ...
Darrell Grant: Truth and Reconciliation
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Darrell Grant's Truth and Reconciliation might be categorized as “music to make the world a better place." A strong case could be made that all music--indeed, all art--has that purpose. Grant's aspirations in that direction here are more on-the-sleeve than you find on most musical endeavors. The results on the project are remarkable for their ...
Ron Thomas/John Swana/Joe Mullen: Cycles
by Dan McClenaghan
Many jazz pianists have a grounding in the classical side of music. Ron Thomas's anchoring may be deeper there than most. His back-to-back piano trio outings, Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006) and Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006), explored some very alluring, loose sound shapes shaded by his classical side in a ...
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by Dan McClenaghan
Call this music tango if you must--and the title track of the Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner set, Ojos Negros, is a tango tune from the pen of Vincente Greco. But this duet set, Saluzzi's bandoneon in a fluid, airy dance with Anja Lecher's cello, might better be categorized as “just music."The two instruments, individually, make ...
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