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Brian Allen: Solo Trombone
by Dave Nathan
Brian Allen is from Lake Jackson, Texas where part of this solo trombone album was recorded. He studied with some of the masters of avant-garde /free jazz such as Roswell Rudd and Ellery Eskelin. To state the obvious, solo trombone albums are not everyday occurrences and it takes a good deal of self-assurance to but one ...
Arnold Olenick: Songs from My Trunk-Standards for the Millenium
by Dave Nathan
A bane of today's singer is finding fresh material. Regardless of how their music is, they don't want the choices for their program to include the just songs from the Gershwin Brothers, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen and the other authors of the Great American Popular Song Book. Some pen their own material, others ...
Jazz Ensemble One: Sphinx
by Dave Nathan
Northern Arizona University has long had a respected jazz program. Now under the leadership of jazz bassist, Joel Di Bartolo their latest release for Sea Breeze incorporates modern jazz figures into the band's arrangements that grab the attention and imagination of these young jazz students. You can tell that they are captivated with this music by ...
Teddy Phillips Orchestra: That Distinguished Gentleman with that Distinctive Saxophone
by Dave Nathan
This is the kind of record that a self respecting jazz fan will immediately take out of the CD player and hide if someone comes a visiting. Built around Teddy Phillips sugary sweet alto and surrounded by a bevy of strings, this is easy listening music in the Hugo Winterhalter sense. Phillips will remind some of ...
Mahanaim Satya/Art Hirahara/Alan U'ren: The Rhythm Section
by Dave Nathan
Leader and bassist Mahanaim Satya pays tribute to rhythm section jazz giants of the 1960s and beyond with these two volumes. The trio is patterned after the rhythm sections that were crucial to the music being played during this era by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Wayne Shorter. Thus, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner, Philly Jo Jones, ...
John Patitucci, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Pablo Di Sabatino: Threeo
by Dave Nathan
Threeo is a multi national effort. American John Patitucci, Italian native Paolo Di Sabatino and Horacio Hernandez whose roots are in Cuba get together for a session which merges their respective ideas on jazz music. Even though each has equal billing, it's Paolo Di Sabatino who emerges as dominant player as his piano sets the tone ...
Sue Maskaleris: Unbreakable Heart
by Dave Nathan
She sings, she scats, she composes, she arranges, she plays piano, keyboards, percussion, recorder, and violin while she programs the synthesizer. Not all at once, of course, it just sounds like it. Sue Maskaleris is a very busy person on this her maiden album. This busyness permeates several of the tracks whose objective seems to be ...
Caterina Zapponi: Universal Love Songs
by Dave Nathan
Caterina Zapponi, born and raised in Rome, Italy, is the daughter of one of Italy´s most famous movie script writers Bernardino Zapponi and his French wife. Zapponi Pere wrote the screen plays for two of Federico Fellini's more famous (or infamous, your choice) movies, Roma and Satyricon. Zapponi studied at the Berklee College of Music. Later ...
Mike Freeman: Wiggle Stomp
by Dave Nathan
Mike Freeman's second self-produced album features a program of his compositions. The underlying theme is Latin and Brazilian jazz and calypso. Freeman not only plays the vibes, but the marimba as well, the latter reserved for the calypso music. If the picture on the album is accurate, Freeman uses the four mallets getting a voicing that ...
Pete Brady and His Big Band: With a Song in My Heart
by Dave Nathan
Working out of Central Florida, Pete Brady is a crooner who builds images of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. He has a strong tenor/baritone voice similar to Tony Bennett's, even capturing Bennett's special vibrancy when singing those songs Tony does. With a range that allows him to hit high notes with ease, Brady comfortably handles a ...
