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The Acro-brats: Kicking and Screaming
by Dan McClenaghan
Of course, this is the opinion of an old guy... My first impression on an initial listen of Kicking and Screaming was: These guys have checked out an Elvis Costello album or two. The opener, "Payback", has that retributive bitterness of Costello's most biting early work. It also has the drive and energy. And ...
Dino Govoni: In the Library
by Dan McClenaghan
Like a skilled prose writer, saxophonist Dino Govoni gives you a good straight ahead story, a linear narrative, with stylistic asides, subtle and wonderful surprises. The writer's story may beguile you, but it's the occasional odd sentence, the unusual but on-target diction, the deft and vibrant turn of phrasing interspersed thoughout that holds the audience's attention ...
Derek Douget: Perpetual Motion
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Derek Douget's roots run deep in Louisiana: a native of the city of Gonzales, a degree in Jazz Studies at The University of New Orleans, the musical diretor of The Ellis Marsalis Quintet, performing stints with Nicolas Payton, Jason Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis and Roland Guerin. Perpetual Motion is Douget's first outing as a ...
Kelly Rossum: Party's Over/Begun
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Kelly Rossum and the quintet open up Party's Over/Begun relaxed and loose-jointed on bass man Michael O'Brian's "Scatterlogic", a rollicking straight ahead quintet workout. Stretched (like a rubberband) trumpet lines, rhythm rolling free and easy. Sounds like the band tried and tried to record it just right, then gave up and said, "What the hell; ...
Ken Hatfield: Phoenix Rising
by Dan McClenaghan
Ken Hatfield wields his eloquent and supple classical guitar on his latest jazz offering, Phoenix Rising. He uses a basic trio format--guitar/bass/drums--bolstered by guest artist slots featuring piano, tenor sax and trumpet on several tunes.Hatfield--who has been commissioned to write several ballets--leans toward his classical side on the opener, “Phoenix Rising" and “Tableau du ...
Spike Wilner Ensemble: A Blues of Many Colors
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Spike Wilner got the group together for a month of gigs at Smalls, the jazz club in in New York's Greenwich village, to polish up their chops for the recording session that resulted in A Blues of Many Colors. Time well spent: they put a nice shine on nine of Wilner's compositions.The ensemble ...
Judi Silvano and Mal Waldron: Riding a Zephyr
by Dan McClenaghan
She's been flirting with us, Judi Silvano has, these past few years. Her wordless vocalese on the Joe Lovano/Gunther Schuller masterpiece, Rush Hour ; and again on Joe Lovano's fine Celebrating Sinatra CD from '96; and more recently on James Emery's gorgeous and overlooked Fourth World. Great sounds, but sideperson roles; not enough of Judi Silvano.
The Bob Boguslaw Quartet: The Way
by Dan McClenaghan
The Way is Bob Boguslaw's labor of love, jazz style. Boguslaw is a classically trained pianist, and a musician with a remarkably varied resume. He performs regularly with The President's Own “United States Marine Band", and has performed with Aretha Franklin, Bo Diddley, Smokey Robinson, and The Moody Blues, in between jazz jam sessions galore, while ...
Michael Ross Quartet: Dog Eat Dog
by Dan McClenaghan
Dog Eat Dog opens up with the song "Wee Zee"; and the high energy sound is a bit akin to a power rock trio (with very overqualified musicians, for that genre) who went out and found themselves an inspired, hard-blowing sax man. Power jazz. Driving rhythms that jiggle the marrow in your bones; urgent, full-bodied rhythms, ...
Jerry Granelli and Jeff Reilly: Iron Sky
by Dan McClenaghan
Iron Sky opens with a pair of pearls of rolling metallic thunder, a sound that is resonant, funereal, foreboding, the deep reverberations of a giant steel bass drum created especially for this sonic project.Jerry Granelli is the percussionist; Jeff Reilly plays the bass clarinet. The sound sculptures herein were created and recorded in John ...
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