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Tam White & Brian Kellock: The Crossing
by Dave Nathan
Scottish-based Caber Music assumes that the listener will somehow divine who is singing and who is the pianist on this two-performer session. Nowhere in the liner notes is this rather basic information revealed. Fortunately their web site tells us it's Tam White who's singing and Brian Kellock on piano. Jazz blues singer White has been part ...
Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge, Volume 2
by Dave Nathan
Australia's Janet Seidel continues to work magic on popular songs of the past, many of which have become standards. Like her first volume honoring the art of sophisticated swing and ballad, Seidel chooses to work in small group settings sometimes with sax or cornet added, other times with strings. When the sax is present, it adds ...
Bill Mays Trio: Summer Sketches
by Dave Nathan
Any album that's recorded in a place called Maggie's Farm has to be a listening treat, and the latest from the Bill Mays Trio is just that. The salubrious effects of living and working in the bucolic setting of the Delaware Water Gap is reflected in the relaxed, serene and languid playing of this group as ...
Walter Savage: Soothes the Savage Beast
by Dave Nathan
Walter Savage is another artist from San Francisco's large and active jazz community. A bassist of considerable talent, this album debuts him as a leader. The CD cover is a picture of a Savage. But the music is anything but brutish. The play list of compositions by Savage runs the gamut from mainstream jazz such as ...
Eric Mintel Quartet: Live!
by Dave Nathan
Eric Mintel's previous albums have shown his attachment to the Dave Brubeck Quartet. While in this his third album he doesn't entirely discard the influence of his icon, there is a decidedly more modern bent to the music. This advanced approach is due in good part to the presence of the hard bop sax of Neil ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazs Surge: Madcap
by Dave Nathan
Chuck Owen has gathered his Florida based Jazz Surge big band together for their first release in more than five years. What comes out is a progressive big band playing at its finest. Although the charts have a modern sound to them, they still are within the realm of mainstream jazz. This group is not George ...
Lee Sankey: My Day Is Just Beginning
by Dave Nathan
Twenty-eight-year-old Lee Sankey from the UK feels he has given new meaning to traditional blues. The blues, as he plays it, “is the trad jazz of the 90's" coming from the street and influenced by such current fads as Hip -Hop. He has dubbed this new form of music “Bluebop". Well, it's his album and he ...
Robin Work & the Steve Rudolph Trio: Pure Imagination
by Dave Nathan
Every now and then one comes across a vocal session where the style and sound of the vocalist fits perfectly with the play list and the sidemen who back her. That happens with Robin Work's inaugural album. Work has a deep voice with a surprisingly pure tone despite the heaviness. It works very well with tunes ...
Mark Gross: Riddle of the Sphinx
by Dave Nathan
Alto/soprano saxophonist Mark Gross and his cohorts carry on in music man's fascination with trying to solve the riddles associated with Egypt's greatest monument the Sphinx. The first track, the mysterious sounding “Valley of the Dry Bones" establishes the overall setting for what's to follow over the next 50 or so minutes, viz., Middle Eastern musical ...
Shane Kelly: Shane Kelly
by Dave Nathan
Shane Kelly one more vocalist who makes San Francisco her home. That city is simply loaded with good voices. For her debut album, Kelly has chosen a no loose theme, love. Sometimes it's mooning, swooning, desperately hopeful love. Other times - - and these are the neat tracks -- it's the joy of love. “Come By ...
