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Whirled Jazz: Mukilteo
by Dave Nathan
Whirled Jazz is a group comprised of adventurous musicians from the jazz rich Northwest United States. There is no indication where the group got its name for the album. It may well refer to the waterfront city of Mukilteo, Washington. Whatever the source, on this its first album the quartet deals with a play list made ...
Dave Leslie: The Brim
by Dave Nathan
This album is another indication of the many forms the basic elements of jazz can be adapted to. Keyboard and accordion player, Dave Leslie, applies jazz principles to a series of tunes based in foreign lands. There are pieces which have rhythms derived from the Balkans, Ireland, Bulgaria, etc. On this international musical escapade, Leslie is ...
Don Braden/Dave Liebman/Dan Moretti: Latin Genesis
by Dave Nathan
Latin Genesis commemorates veteran saxophonist Dave Liebman's first recording as a young man with Elvin Jones. This event took place in 1971 and resulted in an album called, what else, Genesis. Like the 1971 release, there are three saxophonists present. Joining with Liebman is another expert saxophonist Don Braden and relative newcomer Dan Moretti plus a ...
Alice Babs: Don't Be Blue
by Dave Nathan
Over a career of more than 60 years, Swedish vocalist Alice Babs has applied her delectable vocal chords to a variety of euphony including church music by Mozart and Duke Ellington, she worked with the latter in the 1960's, yodeling, and just regular jazz. Her 4th album for the Prophone label falls into the latter category. ...
Ben E. King: Shades of Blue
by Dave Nathan
Ben E. King cut his teeth on music singing in gospel groups as a youngster before becoming a member of the consummate R & B, soul packed group, the Drifters. After going out on his own he had a slew of big hits including “Spanish Harlem" and “Stand by Me". Over the years, he has become ...
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: That's for Sure
by Dave Nathan
The Netherlands-based Challenge label has brought together three masters of the art of harmonious jazz. While overall the album leans toward the avant-garde side of the genre, these e three protagonists are wise enough to make their music sufficiently accessible so that the regular run of the mill jazz fan, as well as those more advanced, ...
Richard Sudhalter/Barbara Lea/Bob Dorough/Jim Ferguson: Stardust Melody: Beloved and Rare Songs of Hoagy Carmichael
by Dave Nathan
It takes an album like this to fully comprehend and perhaps even appreciate the contributions Hoagy Carmichael made to American popular music. Tunes like his “I Get Along without You Very Well", “The Nearness of You", “Skylark" and of course, one of the most oft recorded songs in popular music history, “Stardust", are woven deeply into ...
Dave Leslie: The Brim
by Dave Nathan
This album is another indication of the many forms the basic elements of jazz can be adapted to. Keyboard and accordion player, Dave Leslie, applies jazz principles to a series of tunes based in foreign lands. There are pieces which have rhythms derived from the Balkans, Ireland, Bulgaria, etc. On this international musical escapade, Leslie is ...
Don Braden/Dave Liebman/Dan Moretti: Latin Genesis
by Dave Nathan
Latin Genesis commemorates veteran saxophonist Dave Liebman's first recording as a young man with Elvin Jones. This event took place in 1971 and resulted in an album called, what else, Genesis. Like the 1971 release, there are three saxophonists present. Joining with Liebman is another expert saxophonist Don Braden and relative newcomer Dan Moretti plus a ...
Brooke Sofferman featuring Jerry Bergonzi: The Green Between
by Dave Nathan
Brooke Sofferman second album as a leader, and first for the Arizona-based Summit record label, deals strictly with the compositions of the drummer/leader. Showing significant compositional awareness, the tunes cut a wide swathe of rhythmic and harmonic invention, including reggae, blues, swing and ballad. The latter musical species is well represented by a lovely, pensive “Sunbird". ...
