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Matt Jorgensen + 451 at Dizzy's
by Dan McClenaghan
A rainstorm rolled into San Diego--the first such in six months--on the night that Seattle's Matt Jorgensen + 451 rolled in on the tail end of a west coast tour, for a concert at Dizzy's. I don't know if Matt and company pulled the precipitation in with them from the wetter climes of their home turf, ...
Randy Halberstadt: Parallel Tracks
by Dan McClenaghan
The piano trio format serves me not only as a sort of nourishment, but also as a form of reset device. Every couple of months I push back the larger ensemble discs and and pull out the most vibrant piano trio discs of the past year or so, put them on the stereo and listen to ...
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra: Dreamcatcher
by Dan McClenaghan
According to the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra web site , The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra was formed to nurture the musical, educational and artistic growth of individual musicians, to encourage women to become involved in jazz performance/composition as a career or avocation, and to foster community interest in and appreciation of jazz as an ...
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Thought Trains
by Dan McClenaghan
There's something about trains, the metronomic, ringing clink-clack of metal wheels on metal track, the fanfare of the whistle, the rhythm and rumble of the coaches being propelled across a countryside. Duke Ellington loved trains, in a day when he and the band used the form of transportion to get from gig to gig. Think of ...
Siora: Vis-a-Vis
by Dan McClenaghan
On Vis-a-Vis the group Siora pushes the concept of “world music" hard with an offering of eleven tunes sung in seven different languages by vocalist Phyllis Chapell in front of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Middle Eastern rhythms.The set kicks off in Portugese, on “Nacoa," a smooth rhythmic flow aided by Ralph Bowen's flute, with interludes ...
Dynamic Les DeMerle Band: Hittin' the Blue Notes, Volume 2
by Dan McClenaghan
A lot of us jazz fans cut our listening teeth on Blue Note records by Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and more. The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band's Hittin' the Blue Notes, Vol. 2 celebrates that classic sound with a set of swinging, hard-driving hard bop tunes.Les DeMerle sat in the drummer's chair in ...
Charlie Haden: Land of the Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Most of the Latin jazz offerings out there seem to be focused on the sounds of Cuba and Brazil. Charlie Haden's Land of the Sun pulls us into a musical trip to Mexico with his takes on a set of eight songs from the pen of Mexican composer Jose Sabre Marroquin and one each from Augustine ...
Josh Workman: Jumpin' at the Border
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Josh Workman's Jumpin' at the Border swings into that rare “I don't get enough of..." category. I don't get enough of his gypsy style with the Hot Club of San Francisco ("Kali Sara"); I don't get enough of his boppin' (Sippin' at Bell's); I don't get enough of Kim Nalley's bluesy and seductive vocals ("I ...
Katahadin's Edge: Step Away
by Dan McClenaghan
Step Away spices up the piano trio format with shifting time signatures, quirky melodies, some solid rock beats, bits of funk grooves, and brooding interludes juxtaposed with bright rhythms. And you'll hear the occasional Balkan tinge in there, too, along with some subtle “mysterious" and “unearthly sounds," by a pianist who favors the darker tones a ...
Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble: CrossWeave
by Dan McClenaghan
CrossWeave 's opener, Troubleshooter," drives in on a tight rhythm groove that leads into some clean three horn harmony by trumpeter Clay Jenkins, alto saxophonist Kim Richmond, and tenor sax man Rich Perry, with a sound that harkens back to the classic Blue Note Records days, some of those classic sets by Lee Morgan and Art ...
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