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Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto: Fugace
by Dan McClenaghan
The word “eclectic" gets batted around quite a bit to describe things that are, according to the New Mirriam-Webster Dictionary: “...made up of what seems best of varied sources."The word fits well with the music of the Gianluigi Trovesi Octet on Fugace. The Italian reedman/bandleader is possessed of a broad array of influences: New ...
Deborah Resto: Let Him Hear My Heart
by Dan McClenaghan
It's hard to believe that Let Him Hear My Heart is a debut effort. More on that later...Deborah Resto charms with an emotive and sensual vocal style, by turns sultry and kittenish, her intonations wrapped in Latin rhythms and flawlessly intricate, smooth, contemporary arrangements. The word "smooth" can be used – among the harder ...
Fra Fra Sound: Kultiplex
by Dan McClenaghan
Afro-Cubism-Afro-Caribbeanism? Crossover, jazz-saturated world music? World music? Almost but not quite mainstream jazz, filtered through a Surinamese aquifer? We've got a small problem here finding a category for Fra Fra Sound's Kultiplex.The Fra Fra Sound's septet members hail from the Netherlands, Surinam, the Antilles and Venezuela, a Euro-Caribbean mix full of bright colors and ...
Mark Kleinhaut Trio with Bobby Watson: A Balance of Light
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist/Composer Mark Kleinhaut could make a career of this: getting together with different horn men and backing them with his trio for yearly CD releases. Last year it was trumpeter Tiger Okkoshi on Chasing Tales. This time out Klienhaut has enlisted alto saxophonist Bobby Watson, the #1 alto saxophonist in Downbeat Magazine's Critics' Poll, 1989-92; an ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Meeting
by Dan McClenaghan
The average jazz listener's evolution into jazz-fan-dom might start in New York with Charlie Parker and Ellington, then fly across country to Los Angeles for Birth of the Cool and Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan, sticking with the major label offerings based on the two coasts. Chicago (or Madison, Wisconsin today) can slip under the radar ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra--East: Before the Dawn
by Dan McClenaghan
Settling down in an easy chair and pushing the play button to spin a Satoko Fujii disc is an experience akin to climbing aboard and plunging into a musical version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: careening along a swerving and uncertain path, jerking into spine-jolting ninety degree turns, dipping, climbing, slowing onto the familiar smooth straightaway, ...
Barry Harris: Live in New York
by Dan McClenaghan
Do they give Grammy Awards for the best performance by an underrated jazz performer? If they do, last year's winner would have to have been saxman Von Freeman's The Improvisor. This year the top nominee would have to be pianist Barry Harris, for Live in New York. Harris has been playing jazz in the mode of ...
Steve Smith and Buddy's Buddies: Very Live at Ronnie Scott's
by Dan McClenaghan
Drummer Buddy Rich had that swagger, that cocksure grin; and he put together bands big and small that swung hard and clean, thanks in large part to tight arrangements and his work on the skins. Drummer Steve Smith and Buddy's Buddies are very much in that mode; and on Very Live at Ronnie Scott's, Smith and ...
Either/Orchestra: Neo-Modernism
by Dan McClenaghan
It's puzzle why the ten man Either/Orchestra, under the leadership of saxophonist Russ Gershon, is still something of an underground outfit. They've been through fifteen years and eight albums, the spawning of careers of several first rate jazz men, including John Medeski and Charlie Kohlhase, and scores of great live performances. The groups's last ...
Jennifer Lee: J-Walkin'
by Dan McClenaghan
Listen. What grabs you about Jennifer Lee's artistic approach is her self-assured genuineness. The vocalist's debut CD, J-Walkin' leaves a strong impression of lack of pretense--what you're hearing is the real Jennifer Lee. And in a female jazz vocalist in a field packed with talent, Ms. Lee is the real thing. Her complete vocal ...
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