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Etta James: Blue Gardenia
by Dave Nathan
Etta James has been one of the foremost R & B and blues singer this country has produced. She has also demonstrated on many occasions that she can easily bring her hard charging style successfully to standards and traditional pop tunes, especially those to which she readily adapts her special singing style. Over the years, the ...
Ferdinando Argenti: Argenti
by Dave Nathan
Italian born Ferdinando Argenti started with piano lessons at the age of seven. Moving to the U. S. in 1984 he attended Berklee College of Music where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Over the years, the pianist/vocalist has worked such jazz notables as Chet Baker , Lee Konitz and Kenny Wheeler. On this album, Argenti reveals ...
Marian McPartland/Willie Pickens: Ain't Misbehavin': Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Dave Nathan
One usually hears Marian McPartland working in tandem with another pianist on her long running NPR show. But here she matches up with venerable Chicago piano stylist Willie Pickens during a week long run at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in the Windy City in December of 2000. What a happy Christmas present for Chicago jazz fans. ...
Blue Wisp Big Band: 20th Anniversary
by Dave Nathan
Perhaps setting a record for longevity among contemporary big bands, the Cincinnati based0Blue Wisp Big Band celebrates its 29th anniversary with a release of exciting arrangements of tunes that, for the most part, are composed by well-known musicians. There are cuts by Steve Allen, Bill Evans, Bob Brookmeyer among others, wrapped in captivating arrangements by Matt ...
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 ...
Esther Haynes: Esther Haynes
by Dave Nathan
Esther Haynes sings with the same kind of feeling that characterized those seminal blues singers of years gone past. This is no surprise as the objective of Haynes and the many cohorts that join her on this album is to honor singers of the 1920's and 1930's and the songs they sang. “Why Don't You Do ...
Claudia Schmidt with the Jump Boys: I Thought About You
by Dave Nathan
During the 1980's, Claudia Schmidt was a popular Mid West folk singer with her many albums, frequent appearances on such shows as A Prairie Home Companion, festivals and gigs. She has recently moved away from Folk, becoming a jazz singer. For this her second jazz album, she and her group, The Jump Boys, went into the ...
Jay Clayton: Brooklyn 2000
by Dave Nathan
Jay Clayton is a vocal treasure and has been since 1963, when she started a career which has successfully blended two vocal roles, cutting edge avant-garde, where her voice is truly an instrument--an instrument one has heretofore not encountered--and a more conventional, but not completely so, interpreter of major works from the Great American Songbook. On ...
Sammy Price: Sammy Price and the Blues Singers: Vol. 1 (1938-1941), Vol. 2 1939-1949
by Dave Nathan
Sammy Price, who was active well into his 80's, worked both as a blues and jazz pianist, with special talents in the former genre and quite handy in the latter. This 2-CD set captures Price accompanying a variety of blues singers in his role of house pianist for Decca Records. Some singers here were better than ...
Pulse: Moody Street
by Dave Nathan
This is a collection of a set of tunes some of which, according to the liner, took on a life of their own creating all sorts of problems before this disk could be released, and then it was released with two of the tracks reversed. What's here, irrespective of order, is a collection of originals and ...
