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Deidre Rodman: Sun Is Us
by Dave Nathan
For her maiden album pianist/composer Deidre Rodman and her regular quintet successfully leads the listener through a maze of sounds built on compositions and arrangements designed to express assorted sensory emotions among them, excitement, contemplation and introspection. Modern avant-garde ideas find their way to fulfillment through the inventive use of instruments played against and with each ...
Betty Buckley: Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar
by Dave Nathan
Betty Buckley has a fabulous career going, starring in films, TV and musicals beginning with her 1969 Broadway debut in the show 1776. Along the way she picked up a prestigious Tony for her role in Cats. In her debut for the label, Concord Records has put to disk a live performance before what sounds like ...
Rosemary Clooney with Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack: Sentimental Journey: The Girl Singer and Her New Big Band
by Dave Nathan
The inestimable, indefatigable and indestructible Rosemary Clooney devotes her umpteenth album for Concord to her days as a girl singer. She started, as vocal fans know, with the Tony Pastor Orch. back in the 1940's which seems like eons ago, which it is. Over the years she sang with Harry James and others during her career. ...
Duane Eubanks Quintet/Sextet: Second Take
by Dave Nathan
Duane Eubanks's second release for the Swiss TCB label follows the path carved out for his first album, viz., a strong affinity for those Blue Note and Prestige hard bop groups of the 1960's. Not only is this leaning evident in the up tempo material, but in the slower paced pieces as with his lovely ballad ...
Rob McConnell Tentet: Rob McConnell Tentet
by Dave Nathan
Rob McConnell is best known for his Boss Brass, an energetic group playing high voltage arrangements and playing them well. His Tentet follows an amended format. In addition to the size, the arrangements are more relaxed, more thoughtful than the larger group generally has at its disposal. An advantage to playing with fewer people is that ...
The John Fick Southern California Jazz Company Featuring Vocalist Michie Sahara: Open for Business: Jazz Jazz Jazz
by Dave Nathan
A rehearsal band out of Southern California organized by business man/trumpet player John Fick that big band label Sea Breeze has wisely decided to add to its catalogue. There aren't many recognizable names here. Fick played with both the Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James Orchestras, Jim Quam spent time with Pete Rugolo and trombonist Dave Woodley ...
Arlette Beauchamps: Love Again
by Dave Nathan
As soon as the first note comes out of her, you know that Arlette Beauchamps has been classically and, with her ability to project, has appeared on the musical stage. For her debut album, Beauchamps has chosen a selection of tunes from the pens of some of the top writers of popular song, delivering them in ...
The Winners: Live at the Dolder Grand Hotel. Zurich
by Dave Nathan
This rather confidently named collective, led by Swiss trumpet/flugelhorn player Franco Ambrosetti, captured the attention of a live audience with masterly arrangements of seven standards, designed to encourage rather than inhibit improvisation. Ambrosetti, who has a side job as a corporate manager, cut his teeth playing in a quartet led by his father, Flavio, a group ...
Stacey Kent: Dreamsville
by Dave Nathan
Each time after listening to a new album from Stacey Kent, one concludes that this is the best she can get, she has finally reached the ultimate rung on her artistic ladder. But then one is surprised to find that she has just reached penultimate rung, because this next release is better. Such is the case ...
Jeanie Bryson: Deja Blue
by Dave Nathan
For her 4th album, Jeanie Bryson has moved from Telarc label to Koch which has provided a more comfortable framework for her calm, but often sensual, vocal style. Too long seen - - and unfairly so - - as a Peggy Lee clone, she comes into her own on this album. No doubt, there is a ...
