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Gold Coast: Latitudes
by Dave Hughes
This set of ten tunes aspires to carry you off to some tropical beach with its light, breezy rhythms and the mellow timbres of acoustic guitar, marimba, and percussion. The liner notes call it “a musical journey that will take you to many locales,” and this is true. There isn’t any one particular style of Caribbean ...
Phil Upchurch: Tell the Truth!
by Dave Hughes
Phil Upchurch, who has been a highly in-demand session and touring guitarist and bassist for three and a half decades (and released twenty previous albums along the way), has now released one of his most personal and satisfying CDs yet, Tell the Truth. And the title is apt; Upchurch was able to make this album with ...
Lee Ritenour: A Twist of Marley
by Dave Hughes
Lee Ritenour made quite a splash four years ago with his A Twist of Jobim CD, in which he pulled together a rotating cast of all-stars to offer a program of contemporary jazz updates of classics from the Antonio Carlos Jobim songbook. He’s used the same formula for his latest offering, A Twist of Marley. The ...
Kombo: Cookin' Out
by Dave Hughes
Keyboardist Ron Pedley and guitarist Jon Pondel are back with their sophomore release under their latest collaborative name, Kombo, called Cookin’ Out. If you’re unfamiliar with these names, Pedley and Pondel used to be in a band with drummer Bud Harner (who, by the way, produced this CD) and bassist Marc Levine called Uncle Festive. They ...
The Crown Project: Modern Mancini
by Dave Hughes
Tribute albums are all the rage these days, so Monarch Records has release Modern Mancini – Tribute to a Music Master under the mysterious moniker “The Crown Project.” Henry Mancini was undoubtedly one of the foremost film and TV scorers, with nearly 80 film scores, four Oscars, and twenty Grammies to his credit, yet one doesn’t ...
Phil Upchurch: Tell the Truth!
by Dave Hughes
Phil Upchurch, who has been a highly in-demand session and touring guitarist and bassist for three and a half decades (and released twenty previous albums along the way), has now released one of his most personal and satisfying CDs yet, Tell the Truth. And the title is apt; Upchurch was able to make this album with ...
Paprika Soul: Paprika Soul
by Dave Hughes
On their eponymous debut, Paprika Soul, a new UK-based band, seeks to rekindle the fiery, soulful grooves of the seventies’ soul-jazz greats such as Jack McDuff, Grant Green, and Lou Donaldson, while updating them with today’s production resources. The disc gets off to a great start with an accurate cover of Seawind’s late-seventies hit “He Loves ...
Spyro Gyra: Modern Times
by Dave Hughes
As on many of their previous releases, Spyro Gyra’s 23rd album both capitalizes on their longevity (the five members have been together nine years now, as opposed to the frequently-changing rosters of the past), and breaks new ground – both stylistically and by debuting on the talent-rich Heads Up label. The disc opens with three up-tempo ...
Allen Hoist: Just Before Spring
by Dave Hughes
This CD is absolutely astonishing. I have amassed a pretty awesome jazz collection over the past 25 years, and I get all sorts of CDs to review, but it’s rare that I hear a new CD that just blows me away as much as this one has. Allen Hoist, a virtual unknown on the U.S. music ...
Hugo Fattoruso: Homework
by Dave Hughes
Producer Neil Weiss founded the Big Music label in order to release some live performances of legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius in various configurations. After the label was off the ground, he turned his attention to the south and released some noteworthy CDs by steel drummer Othello Molineaux, Brazilian Toninho Horta, and a nice collaboration between Romero ...
