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Dan McClenaghan's Top 10 for 2005
by Dan McClenaghan
1. Fred Hess Quartet Crossed Paths Tapestry RecordsAn inspired pianoless quartet with Hess on tenor sax, Ron Miles, on trumpet, with Ken Filiano and Matt Wilson on bass and drums, respectively. Beautifully vibrant precision freedom.2. Ted Howe Ellington Summit RecordsAn elegantly interactive piano trio infusing some of some of Duke's ...
L. Zaide: Planet Chill: Memoirs of a Jazz Band
by Dan McClenaghan
The black CD cover, the dark sunglasses, the singer's scowling face eclipsed by shadow--a sort of Meet the Beatles shot, minus three, with a big dose of new millennium attitude. You might think you were in for some obstreperous rap sounds. But L. Zaide's Planet Chill showcases the velvet-voiced singer, embracing, with reverence, ten American Songbook ...
Doug Ellington & the New Urban Groove: Life
by Dan McClenaghan
The musical bar is set pretty high when the artist's last name is Ellington. Trumpeter/composer Doug Ellington is, for the record, Duke Ellington's grand nephew; and with music pulsing through his bloodstream, Life, with his band the New Urban Groove, gets deep into jazz improvisation, and also deep into the groove.The ensemble thrives on ...
Deanna Witkowski: Length of Days
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Deanna Witkowski began her musical journey on the classical side, studying piano and flute. In college jazz called, first on the saxophone, then through piano lessons from Chucho Valdes and Hilario Duran. Length of Days, Witkowski's third release as a leader, opens with “Beautiful Hands," inspired by a compliment given to her by Billy Childs. ...
Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial
by Dan McClenaghan
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne describes himself as a perfectionist, a word that has “control" lurking just under its skin. So how does someone who's into control get comfortable going into a situation of spontaneous composition, where the unpredictable is the game plan?Paraphrase, with drummer Tom Rainey, bassist Drew Gress, and Berne, got togther to ...
House Band: Swingd
by Dan McClenaghan
The House Band plays a slippery sound--understated, often amorphous, full of spontaneouly fluid momentums, like sounds created by a gently-gusting breeze interacting with...Interacting with what? It's hard to pin down. Interludes with the two drummers suggest the appealing chaos of a windchime, a disorder that forms itself into subtle patterns and loose structures, guided ...
Satoko Fujii Four: Live in Japan 2004
by Dan McClenaghan
Satoko Fujii creates one of the most original sounds in jazz, in any setting, though the word “jazz" is too confining to describe what she does. The ever-prolific Japanese-born pianist has recorded with about fifteen different ensemble configurations--everything from solo and duo outings to quartets and big bands, and much in between. Live in Japan 2004 ...
Alex Graham: The Good Life
by Dan McClenaghan
A quick trip to multiple reedman Alex Graham's web site finds his sound compared to Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, and Horace Silver, but a couple of spins of The Good Life tells you that these reactions must be referring to the band's collective sound. Graham plays alto sax, flute, and clarinet--the latter two reeds on the ...
Gato Libre: Strange Village
by Dan McClenaghan
On a blindfold test, with Gato Libre's Strange Village drifting from the speakers, not in a thousand guesses would I have identified the players. The sound is introspective and tranquil, with European folk music shadings--accordion, bass, and acoustic guitar floating behind a relaxed, round-toned trumpet. It's about as far from trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's sizzling electro-stew on ...
The Vandermark 5: The Color of Memory
by Dan McClenaghan
"That Was Now," the opener on the two-disc set The Color of Memory, jumps out of the speakers, in a kick ass and take names later mode; and from the perspective of an ear that had never heard this group before--based on this introduction--it struck me as a pared-down Dixieland band pumped up on some serious ...
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