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Honolulu Jazz Quartet: Sounds of the City
by Dan McClenaghan
Figure in all the innumerable ensemble configurations possible in jazz, and a soft spot still clings to my heart for the well-rendered quartet outing, saxophone and a rhythm section playing straightforward mainstream jazz. The Honolulu Jazz Quartet's Sounds of the City delivers just that.Bassist John Kolivas leads the guartet, which has been together since ...
Pete Zimmer: Common Man
by Dan McClenaghan
New York-based drummer Pete Zimmer backs a hard-bopping quintet on his debut disc, Common Man ; and you can't help thinking “retro" with this sound--tenor saxophone and trumpet in front of a bass/drums/piano rhythm team. But it's “retro" in the best possible sense of the word, an energetic celebration of the established sound by a very ...
Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here
by Dan McClenaghan
It's happened to a lot of us, getting hit really hard by the music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Most of us, though, don't--after taking the hit--give up the beginnings of a promising career in academia to pursue jazz full bore; but that's what pianist Leslie Pintchik did, and So Glad to Be Here is ...
Bruce A. Henry: Connections
by Dan McClenaghan
Back in this fan's formative listening years, the record racks had a section that carried the label “Rhythm & Blues." There you'd find everything from early Motown--Smoky Robinson and the Marvelettes, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Marvin and Tammi, the Temptations and the Supremes; and from other labels specializing in “soul sounds": Gene McDaniels, Wilson Pickett, ...
Mike Wofford Trio: Live at the Anthenaeum Jazz
by Dan McClenaghan
My perspective, speaking as a reviewer with access to large amounts of music, may not be that of the average fan, but 2004 seems to be shaping up as the year of outstanding piano trio work by higher profile players like Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau, as well as by a slew of lesser-known but no ...
New Stories: Hope is in the Air
by Dan McClenaghan
The Seattle-based trio New Stories--with a little help from some friends, and under the producer's baton of trumpeter Don Sickler--has crafted a first rate document to the undersung bop composer/pianist Elmo Hope on Hope is in the Air.Elmo Hope, back in bop's early days, hung with piano legends Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. According ...
Holly Hofmann: Minor Miracle
by Dan McClenaghan
I'm indebted to Holly Hofmann. I had very little interest in jazz flute until I encountered First Date (Capri Records, '03) by Flutology, a set that featured a front line trio of flutists Hofmann, Frank Wess and Ali Ryerson. The opener, the classic high octane “Be Bop," knocked me out. It seemed such an “un-flutey" number, ...
Jack Gold Quartet: Daylight
by Dan McClenaghan
Daylight, a set of “instantly composed" tunes, opens with a seaching blend, trumpet, sax, bass and drums poking around for common ground, arguing and jostling each other for position until Michael Monhart's tenor saxophone asserts itself, sounding raw and wounded. Then Jim Knodle's trumpet takes a turn, straight at you, with a bit a truculence in ...
Judi Silvano: Let Yourself Go
by Dan McClenaghan
Judi Silvano Let Yourself Go Zoho Music 2004 Vocalist Judi Silvano's Let Yourself Go makes me long for the day when jazz was America's popular music. If that were the case today, this disc would sell a million copies and score three or four top ten radio hits. ...
Cadence Trio: Yatrata
by Dan McClenaghan
Brazilian-born pianist Helio Alves, leader of the Cadence Trio, came to a higher profile working with the late tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson on the Grammy-winning Joe Henderson Big Band (Verve, '98) and in Henderson's Double Rainbow Quartet that featured the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim. On Yatrata, Alves leads his trio through a set of sambas ...
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