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Dan Moretti/Marty Ballou/Marty Richards/Bruce Bartlett: Once Through
by Dave Nathan
Like many of today's young artists, the performers on this album carry with them experience from playing in groups outside of jazz. You hear the influence of rock, pop, soul and R&B. Jazz purists might that this infects jazz with unwelcome and unneeded influences. The fact is that to survive, jazz needs to attract new listeners ...
Kevin Clark/Terry McDermott: New Orleans Jazz Brunch
by Dave Nathan
New Orleans jazz, or Dixieland as it is often regrettably called, has been written off as a vital part of jazz more times than one can count. But it continues to be performed by a wide range of musicians for appreciative audiences all over the world. Attempts to bury it by its detractors fall into the ...
The Jon Weiss Trio Featuring Rochelle Thompson: Migrating Song Birds
by Dave Nathan
Two performers who have paid their dues, probably more than once, share the bill on an album of mostly familiar material. Jon Weiss leads his trio on piano and sings on some tracks while jazz singer Rochelle Thompson picks up the rest of the program with Weiss accompanying her. Thompson, who gigs at Harlem jazz spots ...
Dan Barrett's International Swing Party: Live! At Birdland, Hamburg
by Dave Nathan
Nagel Heyer rarely has to stray from its Hamburg home to find top jazz people to record. At Europe's version of Birdland, the label has taped some excellent live performances and this one is no exception. A little ragged now and then - - lack of rehearsal time perhaps - - Dan Barrett heads the group ...
Darren Barrett: Deelings
by Dave Nathan
Darren Barrett, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 1997, is emerging as a leader in the New Bop movement, a jazz form that combines elements of hard bop (there is lots of that here), fusion and modal music. His second album has a musical agenda of mostly original compositions mixed with two ...
Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra: Got the Spirit
by Dave Nathan
With two CDs already under his belt, Dan McMillion continues to come up with interesting arrangements, outstanding ensemble playing and solo playing that is definitely first rate. Led by the Maynard Ferguson influenced, upper stratosphere and melodic trumpet of leader McMillion, the group whips through a play list of eleven classic pop tunes and jazz compositions. ...
Sarah Morrow: Greenlight
by Dave Nathan
Shades of Melba Liston, another trombone player from the distaff side! Playing this sometimes clumsy instrument can be a real challenge for a woman given the stretch needed for the slide and high-level breath control required. But there are no obstacles for Sarah Morrow. Ohio born, but working mainly in Europe and was discovered by Ray ...
The Jim Burke Trio: Hands On
by Dave Nathan
Although a native New Yorker, it was in Chicago that Jim Burke honed his pianistic skills playing with the likes of violinist Johnny Frigo and others. Moving to San Francisco in 1982, he quickly made a name in that city's jazz community. This inaugural CD is a stage for his stylish elegance as the music flows ...
Various: Hot Summer Music
by Dave Nathan
P>Listening to Hot Summer Music is akin to going to bed at night and waking up in harmonica heaven. On a couple of summer evenings in Minneapolis a conclave of nine harmonica players, dubbed the Global Harmonica Summit, gathered together with a group of good jazz players for a rip-roaring session of hot jazz music peppered ...
George Graham: How About Me?
by Dave Nathan
Trumpet/flugelhorn player George Graham brings to this session a long and distinguished career working in the film and TV studios membership in the Bob Florence and Tom Kubis bands. He still works with the Kubis outfit. Both Florence and Kubis have important roles on this Graham's second album as a leader. Florence is at the piano ...
