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Curtis Stigers: I Think It's Going to Rain Today
by Dan McClenaghan
Singing with a relaxed, everyman voice--Randy Newman-esque, with some Dr. John shadings--Curtis Stigers has come up with a dandy set with I Think It's Going To Rain Today. These are well-crafted interpretations of some very well-chosen recent pop songs, rather than the basic American Songbook stuff. Stigers covers blues great Willie Dixon's “My Babe"; Arthur Cradup's ...
Big Neighborhood: Neighbors
by Dan McClenaghan
This sax/bass/guitar/drums quartet struck me on first listen as a group that Steely Dan might hire for a recording session. The sound is crisp and clean, modern, with sharp lines and well-defined, ear-grabbing tangents. And democratic, as opposed to a sax-in-front-of-a-rhythm section affair. Then I heard some Pat Metheny shadings when guitarist David White brings the ...
Bud Shank and Phil Woods: Bouncin' With Bud & Phil: Live at Yoshi's
by Dan McClenaghan
Bouncin' With Bud and Phil features a front line of two veteran alto saxophonists, Bud Shank and Phil Woods, in a freewheeling, sometimes thoughtful, often elegant wailing live session. Both are septuagenarians, and the set sounds less like a sparring session--a younger man's game--than a lively conversation, full of spirited give and take, a swapping of ...
Ted Howe: Ellington
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Ted Howe missed the centennial of Duke Ellington's birth by six years with this release. In late '98 and '99 there were more tributes to the Duke spinning around out there than you could count. I don't recall anybody honoring Ellington via the piano trio route, though, and Duke himself rarely recorded in the format--Money ...
Michelle Latimer: Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays
by Dan McClenaghan
It seems odd that there aren't more horn-man/vocalists out there--or horn-woman/vocalists, in this case. Louis Armstrong broke the ground and set the standard; Chet Baker, in his cool way, kept the plow moving. But if you want to talk about the ladies tilling this fertile soil... well, I came up with a blank.On her ...
Ada Rovatti: Airbop
by Dan McClenaghan
Just when you think the mainstream of jazz is getting a little stagnant, along comes a set like Airbop which gives a fresh flow to the style.Italian-born and now New York-based saxophonist Ada Rovatti plays with soul here. Possessed of a robust tone, she handles her solos with a zest and vibrancy full of ...
Benoit Delbecq Unit: Phonetics
by Dan McClenaghan
What a wonderful band that pianist Benoit Delbecq has put together! This finely synchonized unit creates an exceptional ensemble sound with its dark, moody tones and circuitous melodies, playing music that sounds as if it were conceived in a cave, in murky shadows and cool and dry air. An unusual timbral mix--viola and tenor saxophone--sets the ...
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: In The Tank
by Dan McClenaghan
In a drifting and amorphous way, the sound on In The Tank feels as elemental as a delta blues; the opener, “Walking Squid," comes to life on a spare, tinny plucking of strings, like something you'd hear from Son House or Robert Johnson. Whether the plucking comes from a guitar or from Satoko Fujii reaching inside ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: A Blessing
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening title tune on the John Hollenbeck Larger Ensemble's A Blessing brings Maria Schneider's masterpiece Concert in the Garden to mind, with its fluid momentum and swirling harmonies. The sixteen-minute song, as well as the rest of the tunes on the disc, are Hollenbeck originals; and while the Schneider influence is apparent--both Schneider and Hollenbeck ...
Avram Fefer and Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits
by Dan McClenaghan
Multiple reedist Avram Fefer and pianist Bobby Few team up here to play some jazz standards by Monk, Ellington, and Mingus--not what you'd expect from a pair of artists better known for their free jazz credentials. Few played for ten years with Steve Lacy, and Fefer put out several fine sets on the CIMP label; they ...
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