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HenryThins Francis: Some Stride Piano Playing
by Dave Nathan
P>Stride piano was once the rage with such giants as James P. Johnson, Willie “the Lion" Smith, Duke Ellington and reaching its zenith in the hands of Fats Waller. Perhaps the best known proponents of this style among the current crop of pianists are Ralph Sutton and Judy Carmichael. Now comes Henry thins Francis with a ...
Jill Jensen: Seems Like Dreams
by Dave Nathan
Wisconsin singer Jill Jensen's first album features the guitar of Jack Grassel which is a perfect foil for Jensen's soft, sensuous vocalizing. Often singing with a breathy style, Jensen enters into that vocal domain whose major inhabitant is the hushed one, Peggy Lee. Other times, Jensen becomes assertive such as on a swinging “You'd Be so ...
John Stein: Portraits and Landscapes
by Dave Nathan
Jardis Records is the German counterpart of England's String Jazz label. Both concentrate on guitar music and performers. Here Jardis has reached across the Atlantic to put to a CD the styling of Boston's John Stein. Stein, who teaches harmony at the prestigious Berklee College, gathered together some like minded cohorts for a solid session of ...
Dave Mackay, Lori Bell, Ron Satterfield: Interplay
by Dave Nathan
When one thinks of jazz trios, it's usually piano, drums and bass, or guitar in lieu of bass. Here there's the unusual combination of piano, guitar and flute. One result is the sharp contrasts created, with the flute at the high end, the guitar at the bottom and Dave Mackay's piano the bridge between the two. ...
Jody Sandhaus: I Think of You
by Dave Nathan
PWinter Moon predicted a bright future for this singer with the passionate delivery. Her Latest release does nothing to dim this prospect. The first album had a play list decidedly leaning toward the melancholy. While there is still some of this here, the program is peppered with bright tunes that highlight Sandhaus' fine sense of timing. ...
Martin Sasse Trio: Here We Come
by Dave Nathan
This album catches the talents of another set of jazz wunderkind from Europe, this time the Martin Sasse Trio. When one starts wondering, or pondering, about the future of jazz, it's time to take down an album like this from the shelf and get reassured that the genre is in good hands. And good hands is ...
Marcelle Gauvin: Faces of Love
by Dave Nathan
Marcelle Gauvin makes the best of her first recording opportunity. Not only does she put her voice into each song, but her heart and soul too. This style may not be everyone's piece of cake. But here it comes off well because the emotive noises one usually finds with this expressive mode is not here. Moreover, ...
Brain Carrick & His Algiers Stompers: Everywhere You Go
by Dave Nathan
English clarinetist Brian Carrick and his countrymen pay tribute to New Orleans jazz legend Kid Thomas Valentine by borrowing the name of Valentine's group, the Algiers Stompers for 70 minutes of traditional New Orleans jazz. Algiers, now absorbed into New Orleans, was once a separate city with its own tradition and Kid Thomas Valentine was an ...
Various: Concord's Women in Jazz - The New Century
by Dave Nathan
This album is revealing. Of the 10 women jazz artists who have recorded for Concord Jazz, 8 ½ are vocalists. The full non-vocalist is Marian McPartland who plays piano, the other area of major employment for women in jazz. The ½ is Sheila E. who plays drums while she sings. The label has previously recorded women ...
The C-Nuts: Blitzkrieg Bop and Other Jazz Mutations
by Dave Nathan
Mapleshade Records created the offshoot Wildchild! Label to record fun stuff from the R&B, soul, rock and country musical genre. Fine. But that's not what's happening with this C-Nuts release - - a play on the name of the popular Squirrel Nut Zippers band? True, one can hear some R&B, especially when Jon Ozment or Derek ...
