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Ron Thomas Trio: Doloroso
by Dan McClenaghan
Ron Thomas took a few years off since his last CD release, the excellent House of Counted Days (2002). But just this year, the pianist, a commsumate musical artist, has offered up two stellar piano trio outings, Music in Three Parts and Doloroso.Thomas employs similar limitations for both of these sets. In the case ...
Mark Kleinhaut Trio: Holding the Center
by Dan McClenaghan
It was time for this to happen. Guitarist Mark Kleinhaut has put out five CDs of original material, but his last two efforts, both on Invisible Music--A Balance of Light (2003) and Chasing Tales (2001)--showcased guest artists in front of the trio: alto saxophonist Bobby Watson and trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, respectively. Both were fine outings, but ...
Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep on Your Dreams
by Dan McClenaghan
One way to give a straight-ahead piano trio set a modern edge is to cover some Wayne Shorter tunes. Everything that the onetime mid-sixties Miles Davis sideman has written seems to swirl to the edges of the mainstream without drifting out of it. Drummer Bruce Johnson opens Don't Sleep On Your Dreams with a ...
Ed Spargo: Ed Spargo
by Dan McClenaghan
Bassist Ed Spargo titled his 1998 debut CD Invisible Man, a reference to the oftimes background relegation of his chosen instrument. He's not invisible on Ed Spargo; his bass is very much in the front line on this energetic jazz/fusion outing. Indeed, he even penned a tune entitled “Visible Man" for inclusion here, as if he's ...
Grismore / Scea Group: Well Behaved Fish
by Dan McClenaghan
Well Behaved Fish opens with Ornette Coleman's “Dancing in Your Head," an upbeat, obstreporous, hard-driving electro-orchestral performance, and a fitting introduction to a plugged-in set of sounds reminscent of some of Miles Davis' mid to late-'70s work. But the Grismore/Scea Group, co-led by guitarist Steve Grismore and multi-reedist Paul Scea, gives the sound more focus and ...
Eddie Daniels: Mean What You Say
by Dan McClenaghan
Reedman Eddie Daniels, best known as a virtuosic clarinetist who crosses the borders between jazz and classical, offers up his first straight-ahead jazz set in a decade on Mean What You Say. It's a classic sound: tenor sax and clarinet backed by an understated but stellar rhythm team comprised of the venerable Hank Jones (piano), Richard ...
Conjure: Bad Mouth
by Dan McClenaghan
Musical director Kip Hanrahan instigates some of the most visionary, funky, bluesy modern world music amalgams on record with Bad Mouth, alongside his sonic congregation, Conjure. He assembled the group in 1984 to set writer Ishmael Reed's poety to music, on both a self-titled debut and a second outing, Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon ...
Virginia Mayhew: Sandan Shuffle
by Dan McClenaghan
Who's this Virginia Mayhew woman anyway, Dexter Gordon's daughter? Sonny Rollins' niece? She plays the saxophone like a blood relative of those two giants on Sandan Shuffle. Actually, we know the reedist well from her standout 2003 effort, Phantoms, as an artist who has embraced the mainstream mode and ridden it with vigor and supreme assurance ...
Jamie Stewardson: Jhaptal
by Dan McClenaghan
These sounds on Jhaptal are a long way from the O'Jays, the Temptations, Pattie Page or the Drifters, but guitarist Jamie Stewardson began his performing career on a cruise ship backing these pop oldies acts before he moved on to the higher challenge of playing with the likes of George Russell, Jimmy Guiffre and Mat Maneri.
Fahir Atakoglu / Horacio Hernandez / Anthony Jackson: If
by Dan McClenaghan
If is such a short and simple title for a CD, and this one features a piano trio performing the music in a simple configuration: piano/bass/drums. But nothing's ever as simple as it seems. The classic piano trio offerings range from quirky, angular and oddly logical Thelonious Monk sets to the bounce of Bud Powell, the ...
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